Simon Kinberg Says The New Mutants Might Get An R-Rating

There's been certainly a whole lot of uncertainty behind 20^th Century Fox's next mutant movie, The New Mutants. Not only has the film's production been plagued by delays, but it's also suffered from reshoots as well as questions about who really the film is aiming for.

Simon Kinberg, director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix and producer of The New Mutants just recently revealed in an interview with Collider that even Fox has no idea what the comic book horror movie's rating might be, saying that the film could take on a safe PG-13 rating, or it could be branded as an R-rated movie.

"It's the kind of movie that could go R, or it could be a hard PG-13," Kinberg told the publication. "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 push for an R-rating for the movie doesn't come as a surprise. Back in January, The New Mutants' director Josh Boone said that the film would push the limits of a PG-13 rating. It wouldn't be shocking if the film pushed beyond that, moving on to an R-rated territory. Horror movies usually come out R-rated, and The New Mutants is a mix of both comic book movie and horror.

We can't help but wonder just how gritty The New Mutants is going to be once it premieres.

The New Mutants hits cinemas August 2, 2019.

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