Black Adam filmen har som nok alle snart ved den velbetalte og berømmede Dwayne Johnson i hovedrollen, og han har flere gange nævnt hvor voldelig karakteren er - så hvordan kan man lave en film der ikke ender med en såkaldt "R rating"?
Det viser sig at være ret svært, producerne Beau Flynn og Hiram Garcia fortæller særligt om dette til Collider. Det viser sig at hele fire udgaver måtte sendes ind til MPAA, med den sidste af dem indsendt for kun en måned siden.
Garcia finder det særdeles vigtigt:
"We really wanted to make sure that we honored the character of Black Adam. 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. But it was really important for us to do that. And that's something Dwayne was very committed to as well."
Flynn bekræfter niveauet af redigering i de mest grusomme scener:
"We did have to make a lot of edits, actually. There are some personal moments that we really love, but we had to let them go. But we never compromised, we never had to cut a scene. We had some really cool moments, and if you notice, there are some great moments when Black Adam is in the fly bike chase sequence and drops one of the intergang soldiers. 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. And I think we have four or five of those. At one point we had about ten, and we were able to find some compromise with the MPAA on that."
Med lidt held betyder det en ikke-børnevenlig version måske kommer en gang i fremtiden.