Warner Bros Asked James Gunn to Make The Suicide Squad PG-13

The Suicide Squad writer/director James Gunn reveals Warner Bros. originally asked him to make the DC Extended Universe movie PG-13.

The Suicide Squad writer/director James Gunn revealed that Warner Bros. originally asked him to make the movie PG-13.

In an interview with Collider, Gunn was asked if he was surprised that he was able to make The Suicide Squad, since that was not the kind of film Warner Bros. had been making. “I think I have a sort of blindness about that sort of thing,” Gunn began. “I wrote the script the whole time, thinking they would let me make it, I mean, they asked, ‘Can you make this PG-13?’ I said, no.”

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Gunn added that he told Warner Bros. they could “make it and take it with somebody else, and they can direct it, and you can do a PG 13. But if I’m going to direct it, I want it to be R.'” He explained, “They were like, ‘Okay, that’s worth the trade-off for us… So, they were great about it.”

Of course, an R-rated entry in the DC Extended Universe is nothing new. Last year’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which also saw The Suicide Squad‘s Margot Robbie reprise her role as Harley Quinn from 2016’s Suicide Squad, shared the same rating as its sister film.

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Source: Collider

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