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Written by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Writer and Director James Mangold set the story in 2029 to avoid any conflict with the timeline established in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but his goal was to make a stand-alone film not bound to the continuing previous storylines or X-Men universe sequels.
Mangold commented on the rating of the film,“For me, what was most interesting in getting the studio to okay an R-rating was something entirely different. They suddenly let go of the expectation that this film is going to play for children, and when they let go of that, you are free in a myriad of ways. The scenes can be longer. Ideas being explored in dialogue or otherwise can be more sophisticated. Storytelling pace can be more poetic, and less built like attention-span-deficit theater.”
Many still believe that after the success of Deadpool, 20th Century Fox “allowed” an R-rating for this film. However, it was confirmed in an interview with X-Men Producer Simon Kinberg that this was not the case, and the R-rating was always going to happen.
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