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It's been somewhat obvious since Thursday night, but in the days that followed, Deadpool has proven itself to be a monster hit beyond anyone's wildest predications. The Marvel Comics/20 th Century film has broken records for the biggest Thursday night, Friday, 3-day weekend and 4-day weekend for any R-rated movie, leaving competitors like The Matrix Reloaded and 50 Shades of Grey in the dust, making $150M since its debut.

It's vindication for Ryan Reynolds, who has tried to get a proper Deadpool movie made for the better part of a decade. It's vindication for fans who rallied loudly enough to convince Fox this was a good idea. And it's vindication for the more general moviegoing public who want to see more breakout R-rated films in this sea of PG and PG-13 rated box office hits.

The refrain I'm hearing now is "well, if Deadpool did this well, it's going to blow to doors open for other R-rated comic book movies at last!" But as excited by I am about Deadpool's performance, I'm not quite sure that's true. That may seem counter-intuitive given what we've just witnessed, but I don't think most people realize just how unique of a case Deadpool actually is.

First of all, let's not pretend that Deadpool is the first R-rated superhero movie ever made. Certainly the trend has been toward PG-13 movies for a good long while now, but that's overlooking the entire Blade trilogy, two Punisher movies and other comic-inspired films like Kick-Ass. And none of those came even close to the numbers Deadpool is putting up. The original Blade (1998) won its opening weekend with a $17M box office haul. Blade 2 (2002) brought in $32M while Blade: Trinity (co-starring a 2004-era Ryan Reynolds) dipped down again to a $16M opening. Tom Jane's fan-favorite Punisher film (2004), arguably the most beloved R-rated comic property, only had a $13M opening weekend. And even Kick-Ass (2010), which had critics on its side, only debuted with a $16M opening weekend.

The exception to this is 300 (2007), which many forget was adapted from a graphic novel, and had a $70M opening weekend and a $450M box office total. But that didn't exactly spawn some sort of R-rated comic book movie renaissance, despite being a hit (nor is it a traditional "superhero" film). Now we have Deadpool putting up numbers that would make any PG-13 superhero film jealous, which just hasn't happened before. But people don't seem to understand why this is happening. Deadpool is violent and crude, yes, but it's also clever and funny and weirdly romantic. It's a star + concept vehicle with Ryan Reynolds as the titular assassin that works better than almost any other superhero film out there. And I'm not sure that's something that's going to be easy to replicate, outside of the obvious Deadpool sequels that will now be on their way.

The problem now is that you have comic fans shouting out the names of properties they want adapted into "hard R" films left and right, but so, so few of them seem like they'll either get a film made in the first place, or if they did, that it would work nearly as well as Deadpool.

Tell me, which actor would you get excited about playing Moon Knight in a film that would replicate this Ryan Reynolds/Deadpool perfect fit? Or how exactly would you pitch a movie about the borderline unfilmable Sandman? Do you honestly think a Jeffrey Dean Morgan Lobo film would do a fraction of the box office as Deadpool? Is Hellblazer/Constantine really going to have its time in the sun after a failed film adaptation and a failed TV show adaptation?

But even the more well-known comic properties that would qualify for their own "hard R" film series are largely off the table at this point. Marvel is in no way going to greenlight a new Punisher film. Rather, they're already about to start making a Punisher series starring Jon Bernthal which will be spun out of Daredevil. AMC is making a Preacher show. FX is making a show about Y: The Last Man. The only hugely popular comic I can even think of right now that would make a great R-rated film would be Saga, which I don't believe is currently in development as anything but a comic, and yet I still think that would probably be best as Netflix/HBO series, if it's filmable at all.

Then you have another camp of people who see the success of Deadpool and suddenly think that Marvel and DC are going to loosen the reins of some of their existing properties. That maybe Suicide Squad will have the courage to bump itself up to an R from PG-13, or that Marvel will finally let loose and make a Wolverine film where Logan actually gets to slice people's limbs off and bathe in their blood.

It's also hard to see this happening. Marvel and DC want their Justice League/Avengers/X-Men universes kept relatively family friendly even in their "dark" moments. While it's great that Deadpool has done so well, it's part of a very, very small club of movies that probably would have done worse cut down to PG-13, alongside say, The Expendables 3 (which was edited down and did do poorly). You can argue this all you want, but you won't convince me (or studio executives) that Suicide Squad would end up making more money rated R than it would be as PG-13. It might be a more enjoyable film with those restrictions lifted, but DC is going to want to keep its entire DCCU PG-13, and the same goes for Marvel, no matter what Deadpool has done here.

All this said, I am fully in favor of more hard R-rated comic book movies like Deadpool, but we have to remember that many have been tried before and most have been far from monster hits. And we also have to understand that Deadpool is something of a unique case between his innate character appeal and the ability of one actor to perfectly embody him. It's hard to imagine other series having the stars align in that exact fashion. But hey, maybe we will get that blood-soaked Wolverine film someday after all.

Congratulations to Deadpool. It deserves all the money it can make. But I will stop short of saying this is some monumental earthquake that is going to shake up the entire superhero genre going forward.
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