After The Expendables 3 furore where the movie was rated PG-13, you have to wonder if the next retro action movie to face the chop is going to be Terminator: Genisys (goddamnit, I’m sick of having to Google that name to see if I have spelled it correctly). After all, the last Terminator movie was PG-13. If this one is, will you go see it?
When Sylvseter Stallone said he was going to ‘outraid The Raid’, many thought that it was a given that The Expendables 3 would be rated-R, especially after the uproar over The Expendables 2 PG-13 reversal. Likewise the people in charge of Terminator: Genisys have also been leading people up the garden path, probably. Check out this interaction with TheTerminatorFans:
@terminatorfans We can’t really tell you guys anything about Terminator BUT it will be an R rated film as God and James Cameron intended. — Megan Ellison (@meganeellison) January 24, 2012
Mind you, that Tweet is over two years old. At any rate, I’d say holding out for an R-rated Terminator 5 is optimistic, although the chances may have gone down slightly since the PG-13 Expendables 3 bombed. More or less. The first question with these people is for this type of thing is probably “can we get away with it?”. They probably could.
So they probably will.
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