Post by scabab on Nov 28, 2017 20:18:35 GMT
The ability to make or not make an R-rated film is not the measuring stick for taking risks. The MCU has taken way more risks than any other superhero studio, and they're currently reaping the rewards.
It will always be risky to make a big budget R rated movie. Far more so to make an R rated movie in a prominently PG-13 series. It is something that has very rarely been done.
PG-13 movies can reach a broader audience which means more money. It's why unlike in the 80's or 90's they don't make that many big budget R rated movies anymore.
It's why R rated movie series like Alien, Terminator, Mad Max, Expendables and Die Hard have sold out by making a PG-13 sequel.
Movies like Doctor Strange and Black Panther is them playing it safe. They're the same as the other movies for the most part with a different coat of paint.
A big budget R rated Ghost Rider movie that was a violent horror movie wouldn't be because that's a completely different type of movie from all the others they've made.
Fox could easily have made New Mutants just another X-men movie with a different and younger line up. If they were Marvel that's probably what they would have done. Instead they're making something that looks completely different from X-men and what pretty much what most people expected. They are not playing it safe.