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Should X-Men Origins: Wolverine be Rated R? - VIDEO

by Jane Boursaw on April 2nd, 2009

I posted yesterday that someone had stolen an unfinished copy of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and leaked it on the Internet. But that’s just part of the struggles with the film starring Hugh Jackman as the mutant hero.

An earlier controversy told of an alleged battle between director Gavin Hood and Fox helm Tom Rothman over how dark the film should be. And I’m not talking about cinematography. I’m talking about the darkness of the characters.

The blogosphere was abuzz last summer with rumors that Rothman wanted the movie to be lighter, appealing to a PG-13 crowd rather than an R-rated crowd.

More after the jump, including a video interview with Gavin Hood…

But in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Matthew Belloni, Hood says the reports were unfounded and that he “never had a stand-up argument with Tom Rothman" beyond the usual studio-director discussions.

I can imagine this sort of thing would come up with movies like this. A good example is “Watchmen,” which every 14-year-old boy wanted to see, but which was really too dark and bloody for that age. While filmmakers can probably do more stylistically with an R-rated film, they’re shooting themselves in the bank account by not appealing to the moviegoing teen crowd.

What do you think? Should “Wolverine” be geared for young teens? Here’s what Gavin Hood had to say about the controversy:

Photo Credit: Michael Muller / TM and © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved

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