The story of Fox’s The New Mutants has been an uncertain one so far. The film has been plagued by delays, reshoots, and questions about its target audience. Recently, the film’s producer, Simon Kinberg, revealed that even Fox is unsure of what the film’s finally MPAA rating will be. It could be a safe PG-13, or it could receive an R rating. A concrete decision hasn’t been made yet.
“It’s the kind of movie that could go R, or it could be a hard PG-13,” said Kinberg in an interview with Collider. “As I was saying before in terms of subgenres or the genre, it is obviously teased as a horror film, and most horror films these days are R-rated, but it stars a very young cast, so we’ll see. It really is what the movie wants to be. The studio is open to either rating… Traditionally, superhero movies are PG-13 other than Logan and the Deadpool movies, and generally, horror films are R-rated, so we’ll see where this one falls. It is a very scary, edgy movie.”
The New Mutants could be first superhero movie to test the R-rated superhero-horror movie hybrid market, much like Logan did for Westerns and Deadpool did for comedy. The report by Collider also included the detail that the reshoots for The New Mutants have yet to commence. We’ll likely have a better idea of what exactly the film is looking to achieve, notably its rating, once those reshoots are completed.
The New Mutants debuts in theaters on Aug. 2, 2019.
Source: Collider
