That “Black Adam’ will be a real DC spectacle, lead actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has already promised in several interviews and the select audience that has already seen the film is also mostly very impressed. The main thing that was tweeted was the numerous action scenes, which are supposed to act “like a shot of adrenaline”. Yet “Black Adamapparently has more to offer…
As the two producers Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia in an interview with colliders betrayed was “Black AdamAt first it was too brutal to get a PG-13 age rating (i.e. from the age of 13) from the US authority MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). It took four rounds of cuttingin order to agree on a defused version with the MPAA, the American equivalent of the German FSK (Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry).
An R rating for “Black Adam’ would have meant that young people under 17 could only go to the film if accompanied by an adult – and of course the target group is shrinking as a result. However, the reason for an R rating is not only violence, but also intense action, nudity and too many swear words.
But according to Flynn and Garcia, the PG-13 version that will now be shown in cinemas still has it all. “One of the things for which ‘Black Adam’is known, are his aggression and violence. Making a film without those ingredients just wouldn’t have been authentic,” Garcia said. It was very much based on the comics loved by fans.
And what scenes are Garcia and Flynn talking about? About various recordings in which Johnson kills his enemies with “brutal force”. In the first version, there were ten moments in the film that were extremely violent. About half of it was left. Among other things, Flynn speaks of trucks driving over corpses and opponents being killed in a jet-motorcycle chase.
Which scenes can be found in the cinema and which cannot be found on October 20, 2022. Then starts “Black Adam“ Namely in the German cinemas. In Germany, the film is released for ages 12 and over.
There is also good news for those who would have been happy about an R rating: Flynn and Garcia can imagine that a home cinema release will include the missing brutal scenes. However, there is no precise information on this yet.
