[Greenskar]

As was pointed out, the first two Blade films performed well for an R- rated film (we can all pretend the third film never happened, its ok).

I have to disagree with trebleshot on this one. Deadpool needs to be developed for a more mature target audience. He is not a kid friendly character like Wolverine has become, based on the material I read. Any attempt to make him kid friendly will only ruin the character development IMO.

He does not have the mainstream appeal of a mass audience in film that a Batman, Iron Man, Superman, Spiderman or X-men can generate. He should receive about the same amount of praise as Kick ass did and hopefully be as successful.

Marvel Studios is who said they themselves will not be developing any more R-rated films of their characters after the box office flop in terms of numbers that was Punisher War Zone. However, since its my understanding that Fox would be behind this, Rated R is a good possibility.

While Trebleshot is right in that it doesn't need to be rated R to be successful, it does create more options with the content.