MCU Phase 5 and 6

Originally posted by Tzeentch

You're right that sanitization would be a problem though. No one is taking a chance on a comic book film trilogy without making it PG-13.

Except it was a non pg-13 comic book trilogy that essentially saved the entire comic book genre thanks to the iconic opening rave scene in the 1st movie.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Except it was a non pg-13 comic book trilogy that essentially saved the entire comic book genre thanks to the iconic opening rave scene in the 1st movie.

Blade was 20+ years ago, people were less sensitive back then.

Not that I wouldn't want more R-Rated comic based films. Deadpool's 783mil box office, with a budget of 58mil, shows it's highly lucrative if done right. Getting studios to go along is the issue though.

edit. Though Blade only grossed 131mil on a 45mil budget. Profitable, but not top tier.

Originally posted by Robtard
Blade was 20+ years ago, people were less sensitive back then.

Not that I wouldn't want more R-Rated comic based films. Deadpool's 783mil box office, with a budget of 58mil, shows it's highly lucrative if done right. Getting studios to go along is the issue though.

edit. Though Blade only grossed 131mil on a 45mil budget. Profitable, but not top tier.

Don't have to sell me on it, buddy. I still love the first Blade film.

I hope Snipes has a cameo in the reboot Blade.

Well more recently there's been Logan, Joker and The Batman. You'd think studios would realise there's a massive market for r rated comic book content even more so now with the popularity of The Boys and Invincible.

True, just not sure if that were as lucrative as Deadpool when we factor in budget to box office. iirc, Deadpool broke record after record and likely still has them.

The should realize it, but they're stuck on the 'have to make it PG-13 for a broader audience' mentality.

Even Brightburn which few people heard about made 33mil on a sub 12mil budget and that was straight up horror at the core with a superhero flair.

^ it just requires lower budget, less spectacle, and better writing.

So you can see how it becomes a gamble with studios.

But The Batman wasn't R rated.

The first Blade did start the whole Marvel movie phase back in 99.

In more recents times Deadpool made it cool to be R again.

Is the new Blade movie even going to R ?....or have they been quiet on it so far.

Good question.

Sony lied to fans twice about Venom films and their R-rating. Oh, and Morbius, I think.

Sure, Disney is not Sony, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Except it was a non pg-13 comic book trilogy that essentially saved the entire comic book genre thanks to the iconic opening rave scene in the 1st movie.

I always thought Blade was a safe way for Marvel Entertainment to get their start, because audiences would see it as a vampire movie and not a comic book movie. And every property was sealed off in it's own separate universe at the time, so you could get away with more adult stuff. They took a bolder step 17 years later with the MCU Netflix shows, with their R-rated content being part of the greater whole, though they were kind of isolated in a corner.

So yeah, while Blade came first, I think it was the X-Men in 2000 that was really Marvel's declaration of their super heroes and what they would be like. And it was very different from DC movies'; more real world than the Norman Rockwell Americana of the Superman movies or the fanciful Fritz Lang-esque world of the Batman movies. I actually think Batman Begins five years later was influenced by X-Men, taking its complicated real world esthetic and developing it further.