Every studio is looking into R-rated blockbusters currently and that has brought Kevin Feige to now at least back off his stance that the MCU will never have one. This movement in Hollywood has continued to become increasingly popular with the successes that Fox has experienced with X-Force on the horizon.

Marvel Studios on the other hand has been rather hesitant to lean into this trend. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has built up a reputation of being rather family friendly and has the box office returns to back up the reasoning for this approach. But, with this trend continuing to be more and more successful, the President of Marvel Studios is now saying they aren't out of the question.

While speaking to previously suggested they won't go down this route but never ruled it out completely either, and now they seem open to consider the possibility:

Currently we don’t work on R-Rated movies, it’s not out of the question but currently, no.

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Even if Feige and the entirety of Marvel Studios is open to the idea of doing a R-rated film, it will surely not be in the immediate future. With all of Phase 3 announced, there is no film on the slate that fits an R-rating. What it would ultimately mean is the start of a new franchise that establishes the necessity of the harder, darker, more adult rating.

Thanks to Marvel's vast library of characters at their disposal, if they do want to move into the R-rated territory and do a smaller film that is largely disconnected from the MCU, they could have their pick of characters. But, if there is one possibility from Marvel's current characters, it could be with they're committed to making a Black Widow solo film, so maybe she could be the R-rated answer.

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Source: AlloCine [via MCU Exchange]

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