If anything, the concept feels like it’s doomed to fail from the start, though that pretense falls apart when taking into account some very important context.
And that context is thanks to The Wolverine, director James Mangold’s previous outing with Hugh Jackman and is famous character.
You can kind of sympathize with any major studio that would have concerns with bringing their comic characters into an R-rated, and wholly grounded, context.
Even after Deadpool’s massive box office win, when you’re trying to make a character like Wolverine, someone who’s only starred in PG-13 comic flicks up until this point, it’s not guaranteed to hit.