The days of the PG-13 rated Terminator film may be over for now...
A short story, this one, but to many of us, an important one. Coming the week after Sylvester Stallone confirmed that The Expendables 2 was to be a PG-13 movie, at the behest of Chuck Norris (and how quickly has his popularity sunk?), there’s brighter news surrounding the planned Terminator 5.
The project is stuck in limbo at the moment, with planned director Justin Lin committed to two more Fast & Furious movies. But Megan Ellison, who is funding the new Terminator movie, has answered one key question about the new film: will it be stuck with a PG-13 rating? The answer? No, it won’t.
She wrote on Twitter, “We can't really tell you guys anything about Terminator BUT it will be an R rated film as God and James Cameron intended.”
Appreciating that a rating isn’t the be all and end all of a film, there is a sense that targeting a PG-13 over an R compromises just what can be done with a franchise such as Terminator. If it naturally comes in as a PG-13, then that’s hard to grumble too much with. But to know that it’s not been made with that in mind is a refreshing start.
More on Terminator 5 as we hear it.
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