Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige says that while the Deadpool franchise has been successful with R-rated films, PG-13 ratings are just fine for the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe lineup.
Responding to a query Wednesday at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Feige said, "I think we target everything we're doing for kids and adults, so I think your question is more adult or R-rated," Deadline reported.
Feige said, "Other than Deadpool, which has already established itself as a certain genre and a certain rating, that we already said we would not mess with when we started working on Deadpool — which we have — other than that, we haven't encountered a story or a storyline or a character's journey that a PG-13, or the tone, or the ratings we've been using up to this point, has prevented us."
The door isn't closed to R-rated Marvel films, but for now, the company doesn't see the need to make them, Feige said. "We haven’t been held back by [that]. If we ever are, then certainly there can be a discussion that can be had now that there's other outlets like Star. But that just hasn't been the case. We've told all the stories that we wanted to with the tonality and the rating we have now," Feige said.
Marvel gained the rights to Deadpool when the Walt Disney Company acquired the 20th Century Fox in 2019. The first and second Deadpool films made $1.56 billion globally. Feige previously announced Deadpool 3 will be R-rated like its predecessors.
Written by Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, Deadpool 3 stars Ryan Reynolds. The film has yet to receive a release date.
Source: Deadline