Upon its release, not even the most liberal box-office analyst could have predicted Deadpool ’s gigantic success . In a matter of weeks, the film became the highest grossing R-Rated film of all-time, earning more in the US than Batman v Superman.

However, while Deadpool relishes in being aimed at an older audience, it wasn’t always going to be R-Rated: at one stage, Fox was debating whether to give the film a PG-13 rating.

“We did it. We sold our soul for a few minutes. But interestingly the PG-13 version is not that different from the R version. The language is reduced, the sexual content is reduced, but most of the action and the structure of the movie and the scenes were all the same.