Did WB, who was previously worried about Batman's box office performance
, just orchestrate it's own "leak" to reveal that an R rated version of it will be released after the regular version?
That Deadpool thirst is real...
No. This was submitted for review by in Sept 2015. The image in the second post of the thread shows the date. So not, not because of Deadpool. They always planned to have an extended/ultimate version.