Ratings (MPAA / BBFC)

Under the circumstances, I think we'd recommend resetting the sensors to respond to a lighter load. How do you feel about 40 kilos, Miss Hall? Perfect. We want the movie to have the sexy feeling, but it's not necessary to see the real sex. Not because of the rating, because we all want this movie to look a little more elegant in every way. No matter the action, the sex, the love, or the good and evil, the thing.

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to make a PG-13 film. I must tell you, this is my first PG-13 movie ever made. We are very careful about everything. So no matter the action or the drama or anything, we got to so much careful about it. And I also need to tune down about the violent thing. And I also need to tune down the bullet head and the body counts. The whole movie is all about love. It's not about violence.

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Simon West

This upcoming shot where she throws the towel off was very difficult as well because I knew I was working in a PG-13 area type of film and so the idea was to show a little but not too much and so that took quite a few takes to get right. Originally I was going to shoot quite a bit in Venice but it proved to be too expensive because of the cost of everything else in the film.

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Simon West

very strategically, so you don't see anything you're not supposed to see in a PG film.

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What was your favorite aspect of the original Predator movies that you wanted to bring forward? Well, the Predator, I think one of the things for an element we wanted for this movie was actually the realistic gore and all the tribal qualities of the Predator. I mean, like one of the cool things was, you know, which was, you know, because obviously they couldn't do in the last movie because of the rating, was that, you know, when the Predator shoots someone, they get big giant holes blown in people. People's heads get blown off. There's...

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When you, you know, the skin bodies. And it was like, those are the type of things that really, you know, missed from the last film that, you know, when we had the opportunity with the rating on this to actually, you know, and also just from the story, having these elements in it was such an important thing. Exactly. And how about from the Alien movies? What was particularly important to you? Trying to get a grounded cast. You know, like one of the things we really liked in the first Alien in that was that those were just regular people.

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We were shooting these sequences and I asked him if it was difficult to perform against nothing. And he said, Steven, many times in my career I've performed against nothing. He wasn't talking about special effects shots. We'll have to go through his filmography and see what he's talking about. We had such a nightmare with the sequence with the MPAA. Because we were really...

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We actually have a few more seconds of strangling in the extended cut because remember the MPAA asked us to reduce the intensity and we shortened one of the strangling shots and then we put it back at its original length here. So this is a complete full strangulation, never seen before, here exclusively on DVD. In this shot here, old Tom, who's trying his hardest to be dead, actually blinked right in the middle of the shot, but Andy's performance was so great on this particular take

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James McTeigue

What are they gonna do, fine us? Big deal. We've got the most-watched show on air. Well, you're my agent, that's what I pay you for. Protect me. I should've hired him to be my mother. You're mad. - Either that or I wasn't breast-fed. ls everything a joke to you? - Only the things that matter. What if they come after you? - I tell you what's gonna happen. I'll have to make some kind of apology, do some boring fundraiser. In the meantime, our ratings will go through the roof. It'll be fine. Trust me.

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Rob Cohen

And in the rules of this game that have been clearly set up, this is the only way he can get it, or it could be dealt a death blow. And I made it as gruesome a death as I could get away with in PG-13 with him being cooked from the inside and being gone for good. And the causality with the army, that the army is gone

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