Black Adam had to go through multiple edits for the MPAA to consider lowering its rating from R to PG-13, but the film's producers say they "never compromised" to get there.
In an interview with Collider, Black Adam producers Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia revealed that the movie had originally been on track to receive an R rating from the MPAA for some of its more extreme acts of violence, but the team entered into a "collaborative process" with the board to circumvent that classification and eventually secure a PG-13 rating.
"We really wanted to make sure that we honored the character of Black Adam," Garcia explained. "One of the things he's known for is his aggression and violence, and to do a Black Adam movie that didn't have that just wouldn't have been authentic. So we always went into this knowing that we were going to push it as far as we did.
"We knew it was going to be a collaborative process with the MPAA to finally get it to where we were able, to get that rating, but we were able to pull it off," he continued, admitting that it took "four rounds" of cuts to get the movie down to a PG-13. "But it was really important for us to do that. And that's something Dwayne [Johnson] was very committed to as well."
Flynn admitted that "a lot of edits" had to be made to remove Black Adam's original R rating, and that meant letting go of a few "personal moments" that the team loved in the original cut, but he insisted that they "never compromised" or had to cut an entire scene.
"There are some great moments when Black Adam is in the fly bike chase sequence and drops one of the intergang soldiers," he said. "Then there's this great moment where the truck bounces over the 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."
Flynn estimated that Black Adam's original cut had around ten moments of extreme violence similar to those described, but that they ended up with "four or five" in the edited version, which is set to hit theaters on October 21 with its PG-13 certificate and a post-credits scene that's not to be missed (though it's actually already been spoiled by The Rock himself).
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
Black Adam Was Originally Rated R for Its Violent Kill Scenes - IGN
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