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'Deadpool' with Ryan Reynolds to be 'hard R' film

The actor revealed the movie was able to secure an "R" rating in April.

By Annie Martin
Ryan Reynolds at his Canada Walk of Fame ceremony on October 18, 2014. The actor will star as Deadpool in an upcoming Marvel film. File photo by Heinz Ruckemann/UPI
1 of 4 | Ryan Reynolds at his Canada Walk of Fame ceremony on October 18, 2014. The actor will star as Deadpool in an upcoming Marvel film. File photo by Heinz Ruckemann/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, July 2 (UPI) -- Deadpool fans should expect the upcoming Marvel film starring Ryan Reynolds to push boundaries.

Producer Simon Kinberg and director Tim Miller discussed the movie in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Deadpool will reportedly embrace the comic's violent and obscene content, and was confirmed to have an 'R' rating in April.

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"Deadpool is a hard R," Kinberg, who wrote and produced X-Men: Days of Future Past, revealed. "It's graphic. Nothing is taboo. You either commit to a truly outrageous boundary-pushing kind of movie or you don't."

"I felt Fight Club and Tyler Durden were good colloraries," Miller, who will make his feature-length directorial debut with the film, added. "We are in strip clubs and dive bars and crappy apartments and far away from the shiny X-Men world."

Reynolds previously portrayed the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, is an irreverent and unstable mercenary who possesses accelerated healing powers, ambiguous morals and a propensity to break the fourth wall.

Deadpool opens in theaters February 12, 2016, and co-stars Morena Baccarin as Copycat, Ed Skrein as Ajax, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, T. J. Miller as Weasel, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Andre Ticoteux as Colossus.

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