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to sort of change the direction of the franchise at this point? Well, a funny thing happened was that this original film and then the second one were extremely violent and dark and edgy and full of drug-dealing children and just mayhem and mutilation. I mean, as R-rated as you can get, despite the fact that they're comic book movies. But somehow or other, kids were watching the first one on video or cable or whatnot.

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And Orion had it in their heads that maybe there was a younger audience for this character. And there was a, I don't know if the animated series had happened yet, but there were toys and there were comic books and it was starting to become one of those things. So their idea was, what if we did this as a PG-13 film where we sort of straddle that line so that not a family audience per se, but the younger kids could come in with their parents.

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and their guardians. And that was the edict from the get-go. We want a PG-13 RoboCop. And I think one of the reasons they hired me was that the Monster Squad had sort of straddled that line fairly well as far as being edgy enough and scary enough that it wasn't wimpy, but it also didn't go too far. Right, right.

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They thought it was fine the way it was. It was an unpopular decision, I have to say. No, they thought it was fine the way it was, but, you know, it was a PG-13 rated movie, and, you know, I don't think Rachel has nudity in her claws, so. This was out in the desert in Erfoud, about four hours past where they filmed some Lawrence of Arabia. I love this, the camel merchant there. I mean, if you watch him, he's such an expressive actor. He does such a great job, and just off to the periphery there.

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A longer sequence. As scripted, it was... He was supposed to moon us. As he went around the corner, the warden was doing one little shot. It's where his pants were halfway down around his butt. But second unit, for some reason, decided that they should show his entire ass. And it was clearly a disgusting R-rated shot, and we could not use it. And then what... I bet you're all sorry you missed that. Yeah, I'm sure you did not want to see that shot in the movie.

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The first shot of the CG mummy. Although Arnold Vosloo, who plays the mummy, plays Imhotep, he was a little disappointed because he was hoping it would be like, you know, gooier or scarier. But being PG-13, we had to, you know, there was a certain limit as to how gooey and scary and disgusting a mummy could be. These next special effects shots, we shot them at dusk, right as the sun was setting.

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Do you know why McDonald's turned us down? Just R rating. Yeah, R rating. Yeah, but Taco Bell, they're made for R rating people. In some regions, there was an alternate. I had to shoot an alternate with a different franchise. Pizza Hut is in the British version. Pizza Hut also works. Pizza Hut's better than McDonald's and Burger King. But Taco Bell's the best. And Taco Bell has really...

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for the NASA rockets and for all the test pilots and the various airplanes, and it was all done practically. So I went up to San Francisco to work with them on this. You don't have an NC-17 cut of this scene in a vault somewhere. We do, absolutely. There was a lot of material. It was a body double, obviously, for Sandra. Oh, my God. Fluid transfer? And...

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It's a complete steal from Logan's Run. Yeah. You saw it the other night? Yeah, I watched it the other night. Love that film. Logan's Run is a key movie of my childhood because it had rated PG nudity, which changed my life. Mine as well. Jenny Aguilar, still remember.

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and movie adaptations taken out of the library, even if it featured cannibalism, Shadowed Suddenly Last Summer. But no, watching stuff like Silence of the Lambs, I usually watched it without any adult supervision, as is the story of how I watched many R-rated movies as a pre-teen and teen. But yeah, just like you, it wasn't until a number of years later that I was

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trans media or trans images are often received and put out in the mainstream i wouldn't necessarily say this film has faltered in any sense i would say if anything it's going as strong as ever i think people really appreciate uh this type of movie and this sort of novelty of this r-rated uh movie based on a mass market paperback thriller uh

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Fox would generally have something that's kind of, okay, a PG-13 movie would be their big hit of 1992, not an 18 rated or hard R rated film. Without big names, frankly, apart from Sigourney Weaver, who, you know, as a woman is never going to be the, you know, no one would normally hang their summer blockbuster on a female character who isn't even in it really in an action movie anymore.

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the best thing in it, really. But Brian Glover there is just so frickin' good in everything he's ever done. And weirdly, I know him best from Porridge, where he's also a prisoner. Although technically he's the warden here, but... Well, to many kids, you know, watching TV a lot, he was the voice of PG Tips, wasn't he? Yeah. And a Tetley. Was it Tetley? Was it Tetley? Yeah. Tetley makes tea bags make tea or something. Yeah, yeah.

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which actually, and I don't know if I mentioned early on, I mentioned it somewhere, that we had to actually, we got a PG-13 by the ratings board when we, the final cut, or one of the cuts, and we had to go in and add two more fucks for Jennifer actually said, leave us the fuck alone or something, and that gave us the R because the picture was really, you know, wasn't, you know,

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edgy enough or violent enough to get the R, so they had to add that and a couple of F words to get that R rating, because the kids, they like R-rated movies, they don't want to go to a PG-13 movie because they think it's too soft. I think, oh, we almost got a glimpse of Samantha.

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you may or may not have noticed uh this movie has been rated pg-13 for jungle adventure terror it opened on 2649 screens on june 9th 1995 and seems to have had um that weekend to itself i believe um although tons of things were opening that whole summer big you know movies we still remember like apollo 13 braveheart uh batman forever

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Now it's like a joke. Oh, yeah. This is PG now. This is PG, not even PG-13. Such a joke. Yeah, I should have just been butt naked the whole time. You know who this soldier is? I don't know if we're at the same place. Richard Schiff from... He just won an Emmy for... God, I'm having a moment. You're having a senior moment?

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Let them know they meant business. This shot was an issue, which we thought might get us a ratings problem, but was very sweet. We actually sent the film to the MPA to rate it, and they sent it back saying, we give you the R that you've asked for, and we also want to tell you you have a hell of a film. Congratulations. Very cool. That was a neat moment for us. This location was actually a Turkish mosque that was taken from the World's Fair.

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We actually had to trim that sequence for the MPAA. It was a little more graphic and a little more grisly. Not a date tonight? Not just the inflatable kind, a real live girl? Did you break up with the inflatable one? Yeah. She was just too needy. Everything was about her. It's just that this is starting to feel a lot like work. Normally I wouldn't mind. Yeah, when Kevin comes up, when he says it's OK, when Arnold leaves the vent, that's the kind of stuff I love that he makes up. It just seems odd, doesn't it?

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