Less violence, please.
Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming film ‘Black Adam’ is rated PG-13 due to “sequences of strong violence, intense action and some language.” However, this is something that has been changing, since hehe first versions of the film were even more violent. The film’s producers, Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia, confirmed to Collider that ‘Black Adam’ was originally rated R, and it took “four rounds” of editing for the MPA to agree to lower the rating to PG-13. wanted by the whole team. The creators always knew they wanted ‘Black Adam’ to push the limits of PG-13 violence, considering the main character’s comic book roots.
“We really wanted to make sure we honored the character of Black Adam,” Garcia said. “One of the things he’s known for is his aggressiveness and violence, and making a movie about Black Adam that didn’t have that just wouldn’t have been authentic. So we always went into this knowing that we were going to take it as far as we did.Flynn added, “It took four rounds (with the MPA), and (the movie) just got the PG-13 rating, I think, maybe four or five weeks ago.”
What part of the film needed to be cut? “We had to do a lot of versions, actually,” Flynn said. According to the producer, the original cut of the film had the main character of Dwayne Johnson violently killing up to 10 different people. The production cut that number down to around five to secure a PG-13 rating.
“There are some great moments when Black Adam is in the flying bike chase sequence and he drops one of the gang soldiers,” Flynn said. “Then there’s this big moment where the truck bounces off his body. But those are moments that you need and remember in these movies, you know what I mean? You can’t play it safe, and you have to go for it.” … And I think we have four or five of those. At one point we had about ten, and we were able to come to a compromise with the MPA on that.”
The film finally hits theaters on October 21. Directed by Jaume Collet Serra, the film focuses on the character who has been endowed with the omnipotent powers of the ancient gods -and imprisoned- Black Adam. He is now freed from his earthly tomb, and is ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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