All The Fox Film Franchises Disney Now Owns
6. Predator
While Disney CEO Bob Iger has already stressed they will have no problem releasing Deadpool 2 with an R-rating, we should bear in mind that isn't the only major Fox release lined up for 2018 that's on course to land an R.
The Predator, Shane Black's revival of the beloved sci-fi action horror series, is due in cinemas in August. It will be the fifth sequel to John McTiernan's esteemed 1987 original (in which Black himself played a supporting role), and hopes are high that this one will do the material a better service than either of the Alien Vs Predator movies, or 2010's Predators.
As a director, Black has gone PG-13 before with his Marvel mega-hit Iron Man 3, but when signing on to The Predator (which he also co-wrote with his old Monster Squad collaborator Fred Dekker), a condition of the deal was that the film be R-rated; so fans who were put off by the watered-down Alien Vs Predator can rest easy.
After all, Predator is one property that really needs to be rated R, even if that would tend to go against the usual standards of its new parent company; and of course, it's not the only Fox franchise we can say this of...