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Wolverine spinoff to be rated R - other tidbits

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Newsarama scored an interview with Wolverine screenwriter David Benioff and the Troy scribe talked about his job writing the "Wolverine" spin-off movie. Benioff says he wants to "rough" Wolverine/Jackman up a bit, giving him an opportunity to show sides the first two movies didn't afford the character aside from the Mansion invasion scene in X2.

Promising his story will be a "bit darker and a bit more brutal", Benioff says he's writing an 'R' script and that Marvel Studios and director will have to decide where to go from there.

Benioff also confirmed his script and vision stays away from the more "fantastical" elements associated with the X-Men franchise. "I'm going to stay away from the 'Four Riders' kind of stories and the science fiction stories where he was battling aliens or demons...I'm sticking with something more realistic...my concept of him for this movie is the one I grew up with: He's a gritty character, a tough, working-class Canadian guy who was born with certain special powers and granted more through a series of brutal experiments - for more that's my Wolverine reality."
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At least it'll be R and we can see people getting tore up!
 
All it says is that Benioff is writing an R rated script. That's no indication that after Marvel, Fox, the producers and the director get involved that the final released film will be R.
 
I'm guessing that it will be. Wolverine has always been a brutal and violent character and the fact they produce Punisher/Ghost Rider, I don't think they have issue producing violent films.
 
Guessing != factual thread title

Marvel might not have a problem with R rated films, but that doesn't mean Fox is interested in potentially alienating a large portion of the X-Men audience.
 
Possible, but Wolverine's one of their most popular characters. This means one of two things:

They'll leave it rated R, assuming the strong adult fanbase will carry it despite the rating,
or
they'll drop it to PG-13, assuring the largest potential audience while taming the violence and brutality we're all wishing for, possibly sacrificing the overall quality of the film.

Let's hope for option 1...
 
at least one person better get disembowelled(sp?) in this movie..
 
You're on crack if you think it's going to be rated R.

Yes, FOX is going to make a spinoff of a popular series, featuring its most popular character, rated R when the series is rated PG-13. I'm sure they'll like killing all the toy deals, alienating youngsters, making parents angry (X-MEN WAS PG-13 MY CHILD THOUGHT WOLVERINE WAS PG-13 THEY ARE TARGETED THE YOUTH!) and making their box office draw that much smaller.

... I doubt this.
 
"I'm going to stay away from the 'Four Riders' kind of stories and the science fiction stories where he was battling aliens or demons...I'm sticking with something more realistic...my concept of him for this movie is the one I grew up with: He's a gritty character, a tough, working-class Canadian guy who was born with certain special powers and granted more through a series of brutal experiments - for more that's my Wolverine reality."
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Isn't that redundant to state though? I mean the 'battling aliens' or "demons" bit of Wolverine's life didn't really kick off until he joined up with the X-Men. I'd be interested in seeing the film cover the process in which he had his bones replaced with Adamantium, and perhaps a romantic sub-plot involving Yuriko. Oh and I know I probably mispelt her name.
 
I swear if they make Wolverine PG-13 Riddick AVP crap I will....

Well I don't know cuz I'm really sleepy but when I dream, bad things will happen in my dream and whether I remember them or not just know that the nightmares I have are what I will inflict upon those responsible for PG-13ifying Wolverine.

So yeah.
 
I think they can get away with a highly violent PG-13 (no sex or nudity; just lots of violence, but a cutting down on the excessive blood or really violent parts). That doesn't mean the movie still can't be really good and be very violent. Batman Beyond is going this route I believe as is Episode 3. An R rating would be ideal, of course, to remain true to the comics, but PG-13 can be very, very good as well.

I'm writing a Wolverine script as well (I'm no pro; just a hobbyist), fyi.
 
bune duggy said:
uh, I saw some toys - ahem, action figures - at Sam Goody the other day. not bad looking, either. There's a color version and also a black and white version of each one.
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The money they make off of action figures and merchandise is pretty damn small, and targeted towards an adult demographic. Sin City will make its money in book and DVD sales, not merchandise.

Wolverine and the X-Men are a cash cow that is for a younger demographic. They want Toys'r'us, not Sam Goody or your local comic book store.

No mainstream studio is ever going to make an R-rated spinoff of their favorite character to a PG-13 series and face the inevitable parental backlash, along with a crushing blow to what could've been amazing merchandise sales and contracts.

It just won't happen.
 
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