Deadpool managed to slaughter a lot of foes in his 2016 big screen showcase, and that tally includes something notable among the corpses. Yup, the dude managed to slay the big R-rated movie classification bogeyman.
As you may have noticed, the hard R hit Deadpool has pulled in hundreds of millions at the box office in short order and earned well over its (comparatively) modest $58 million budget. Hollywood has certainly been paying attention and that attention is making waves in how comic book fare is approached in the moving pictures. Heck, you can already see it in the way the latest Wolverine offering is said to be going R, ditto talk of an X-Force movie with a restricted rating in mind. Welcome to comic book movies in 2016.
As we wait patiently for however many years it’ll take for Deadpool 2 to arrive, let’s take a look at the impact Deadpool is having on the world of comic book filmmaking. If you’ll direct your attention to the top of the page, we have a video exploring how the public’s enthusiasm for the yuks-n-yucks of Deadpool is shaping the climate for super/anti-hero movies to come. There’s also a bit of Ryan Reynolds’ bulge if that’s the sort of thing you look for in videos.
