'Logan' news: Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to make sure farewell Wolverine film gets an R rating

Hugh Jackman is treating Wolverine fans with a farewell film that aims to become the best one from his character's own franchise. Titled "Logan," the project nabs an R rating with the actor and director James Mangold having no plans of pulling punches. But it has not been an easy case as the Academy Award nominee is said to have struck a deal with 20th Century Fox just to give the project a go ahead.

It has been a foregone closure that it is difficult if not impossible to have the scruffy, cigar smoking superhero to be fully fleshed out on the big screen in his true comic book form. The character is too gory for mainstream media especially with a big studio backing it up who wants to have the broadest scope in terms of mass appeal. But the Australian actor has now reportedly taken it to great lengths to give fans a compromise with an R-Rated film to the point of agreeing to a pay cut to get the usually avoided certification.

The tip comes from Ain't It Cool's Eric Vespe who claims to have chatted with Mangold about Jackman's decision. And while no other information has been provided in terms of what went down in the deal, it is definitely an indication of the potential that "Logan" poses in terms of the difference in tone compared to that of its predecessors in Fox's Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In hindsight, R-Rated superhero films are no longer frowned upon anymore by producing studios as something that do not bring in the box-office sales thanks to this year's "Deadpool." The Ryan Reynolds-starrer has proven that there is, in fact quite a huge, audience for these gritty and vulgar movies as it breezed in the list to become the highest grossing R-Rated film of all time. Interestingly, the merc with a mouth origins story is also from the same studio that is distributing "Logan."

So far, two trailers for the film has already been released: one green band and another one for the red band version, although there is just one specific violent scene that was snuck in the latter differentiating them. Still, the majority can agree that the snippets are enough to rouse interest with its unique narrative that is said to be a spinoff of the hit comic book run called "Old Man Logan," in which a battered Wolverine travels to a futuristic world. That is on top of the fact that the film marks the end of Jackman's long-running reprisal of his iconic role. Something that may also be the case for Patrick Stewart's Professor Charles Xavier.

"Logan" hits theaters on March 3, 2017.