New Images From 'Logan,' James Mangold Reveals Details Of R-Rating, Explains How 'Deadpool' Helped The Movie Go Gritty

With 40 minutes of “Logan” seen by press, and widely praised, now it’s time for the new Wolverine movie to deliver its goods. We’ll find out soon enough if it’s got what it takes when it premieres at the Berlin Film Festival, but there’s no doubt that director James Mangold and star Hugh Jackman are really going for it this time out. And they have the success of “Deadpool” to thank for making Fox feel more confident about letting Wolverine out of his cage with an R-rating.

“I was already writing this movie before ‘Deadpool’ came out, but I will say that what ‘Deadpool’ did is it made the studio feel a lot better about taking the risk I was asking them to take. They saw there was a marketplace reward for being different,” Mangold told Fandango. And as he revealed on Twitter today, “Logan” will be lacking in blood and f-bombs.

Meanwhile, chatter continues to swirl about the future of the franchise, and if/when Wolverine and Deadpool will ever hang together in the same frame. Everyone is playing coy at the moment, and writers of “Deadpool” and its forthcoming sequel, share reservations about just cramming big names into their irreverent superhero world.

“You kinda don’t want a Ferrari in Deadpool unless it’s for a real purpose, in the sense that Deadpool is a gritty, grimy, smaller thing, with characters you aren’t as familiar with,” Rhett Reese told Collider. “It’s a little bit like lovable losers. It’s not the A-list of superheroes, necessarily.”

“The occasional cameo or appearance by an A-list-type person could be really funny and/or dramatic,” he added. “So we have an eye open for those things, but we don’t want to just put people in it because we can now.”

Sounds sensible. “Logan” opens on March 3rd. Check out new photos below via Empire.Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in Logan Hugh Jackman Patrick Stewart Logan X23 in Logan 1 X23 in Logan