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Is This Marvel's Best Editorial Idea Of The Year?

Coming up with ideas to fuel the growth of the entertainment industrial complex is no easy task. Under high pressure to come up with new ideas, entertainment companies occasionally have a misstep. Take, for instance, Sony's plan to release "clean" versions of popular movies, which Bleeding Cool reported on earlier this week. Though the idea of edited versions of Ghostbusters, Spider-Man 3, and Moneyball may have been a flop with fans, sometimes, a bad idea can provide inspiration for a great one.

Enter Marvel Executive Vice President and avid Bleeding Cool reader Tom Brevoort, who gave Twitter a brief glimpse inside his creative process today when he tweeted:

At first glance, the idea may seem like an offhand joke, but could there be more to it? When Fox released an R-rated Deadpool to theaters in 2016, it was a risky gamble, but it paid off with more than $783 million at the box office. Later that year, Warner Bros released an R-rated directors' cut of Batman v. Superman on home video, and even put Batman and Batgirl in a sex scene in 2016's R-rated animated feature, Batman: The Killing Joke. Fox followed up in 2017 with the R-rated Logan.

While the concept of an R-rated superhero film in the modern market seemed far-fetched in 2015, it turned out to be lucrative. So is it all that crazy to think that Pixar could revitalize its animated business by introducing more violence, sex, and foul language into their films? We don't it is, and with Marvel and Pixar both owned by Disney, Tom has the connections to put this idea in front of the right people to make it happen. We'll be closely following this story for future developments.

We'd pay to watch that one twice!

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