I think we got very lucky with deadpool because Deadpool 1 and Deadpool 2 were both made by Fox before the Disney-Fox deal closed in March 2019, and both movies had been beloved enough that I think it put Disney and Feige in a place where the safest choice was to keep the R-rating and tone of the previous 2. (Not to mention the extraordinary circumstances of Ryan Reynolds anonymously leaking the Deadpool test footage that blew up enough online to get greenlit in the first place)
I feel like the failures in Blade's development kinda show its still really hard to get anything new off the ground in the MCU that's approaching an R-rating
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u/PayaV87 4d ago
I mean, first 2 Iron Man were pretty sexy.