Vi visste redan att Black Adam är något av en mjuk omstart av DC Extended Universe, men en annan sak som Dwayne Johnson - som spelar titelfiguren - nämnt flera gånger är hur våldsam denna antihjälte är. Så hur kan man visa detta utan att göra det till en film åldersmärkt endast för en vuxen publik?
Frågan är motiverad, för det var tydligen en tuff uppgift, säger producenterna Beau Flynn och Hiram Garcia till Collider. Det visade sig att de var tvungna att lämna in filmen till MPAA (som ansvarar för amerikansk åldersmärkning) fyra gånger och verkligen samarbeta med dem för att få det gjort, något som bara skedde för en månad sedan. Garcia förklarar varför detta var så viktigt för dem:
"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 bekräftar att det var mycket redigering som krävdes för att ta bort det mest brutala våldet utan att ta för mycket:
"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."
Vi antar att detta betyder att vi kan se fram emot en R-klassad (från 18 år) Director's Cut så småningom, med en hel del extra innehåll.
