• Producers of the Dwayne Johnson-led film “Black Adam” confirmed that the MPA originally gave the film an R rating.
• According to his co-star Mo Amer, Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam character shouts, “Just kill them,” at one point.
• 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.

Producers of the Dwayne Johnson-led film “Black Adam” confirmed that the MPA originally gave the film an R rating. According to his co-star Mo Amer, Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam character shouts, “Just kill them,” at one point. According to sources from Deadline, the comic expressed surprise at the deviation from the honorable tough-guy reputation Johnson had developed in so many prior movies.

Amer recently said to Collider, “It just took me a second to recalibrate and be like, ‘Oh my, this is going to be wonderful. “He just utterly — you don’t see The Rock. You really see Black Adam. He definitely has a body of work.”

According to the producers, they sought to give the character and the movie a darker, more savage tone, but this ran into some issues with the MPA.

It took “four rounds [with the MPA] and [the movie] only got the PG-13, I suppose, maybe four or five weeks ago,” producer Beau Flynn reportedly told Collider.

Even if Logan and Deadpool proved that a comic book franchise is not doomed if it earns an R grade, barring most teenagers from the theatre would appear to go against the immense economic potential that Johnson as (perhaps) the most powerful hero in Washington, D.C. offers. Universe.

However, retaining a darker tone was essential, according to producer Hiram Garcia, to respect the franchise’s past.

“We really wanted to make sure that we honored the character of Black Adam,” Garcia said in a report by Deadline. “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 [MPA] 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.”

“Black Adam does kill openly a lot of bad guys,” says Aldis Hodge who plays Hawkman in the movie. “I think it’s important to know he’s killing bad guys for the sake of the people that he’s protecting and for his moral compass. But along with that, it really is a backdrop to the real conversation that we’re having in terms of, what is good and evil. What is right and wrong? And to what extent do you go, to what lengths do you reach to accomplish what you believe is actual justice?”

“We did have to make a lot of edits, actually,” admitted Flynn. “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 … 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 10, and we were able to find some compromise with the [MPA] on that.”

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