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At one point gore verbinski was trying to get an adaptation of bioshock off the ground as well. He couldn’t get the financing unless agreed to make it pg-13, but he was only interested in making a hard r-rated version.
I wonder if this was before or after A Cure For Wellness, because there's a fair amount of overlap between ACFW and BioShock.
Here’s a recent article that goes into some more detail. It looks like they were in active planning around 2008-2013ish.
A Cure For Wellness was 2016. Verbinsky definitely brought some of his notes from BioShock with him.
I don't think that's what "hard r" means
Fair enough.
It's funny because we used to have such a thing as XXX, to distinguish from "just X" but I guess RRR doesnt work as well?
I suppose people might think they are pirate movies, hah!
RRR is one of my favorite movies! It's age rated NR in the west but I think that only really shows how weighed the system is against nudity and sexual themes and discounts a great deal of violence.
As it should be, what out of touch suited stooge would think you could pull off BioShock at the same rating as shrek?
What? Shrek is a PG movie for children... They wanted a PG-13 rating target. It's the equivalent of T for teens in video games.