'Suicide Squad' Gets PG-13 Rating
Fans of the Suicide Squad may or may not like the news coming out today from Box Office Mojo and the MPAA, officially giving the film a PG-13 Rating for “sequences of violence and action throughout, disturbing behavior, suggestive content and language.”
Producer Charles Roven commented on the rating earlier this year, saying:
"At the moment, my understanding is we are still releasing Suicide Squad as a PG-13, so there hasn’t been to my mind a serious conversation about doing anything other than that. I understand why Deadpool was released as an R-rated film, and I think that the DC Justice League characters, particularly because so many of them are so iconographic, have been around for so long and for so many generations that have grown up with them, and that are still growing up with them, I think we want to present them, when we finally present them, to the broadest possible audience that we can. I think that’s why we’ve planned on making these movies PG-13.I’m not seeing any real reason to change. We’ve made some pretty edgy films that are rated PG-13. You never want to say “never” because we all evolve, but right now I think we’re staying that course."
