What executive producer Michael Costigan said about the MPAA rating:
In an interview with Collider, executive Producer Michael Costigan didn't want to admit what rating 'Ghost in the Shell' was going to be, which is never a good sign. The original film is definitely aimed at a grown up audience (or at least an audience that is older than 16 years), and it would have been a sign of committing to the film's adult themes had the studio announced that the film at least "could" be R if that's what the director's vison required. Instead this:
On possibly battling the MPAA down the road due to blood or nudity, Costigan said, “We decided from the beginning to make the movie the way we’re supposed to make it and then figure it out from there.”
http://collider.com/ghost-in-the-shell-movie-everything-you-need-to-know/#role-of-gender
The movie they're "supposed" to make could mean anything: What the studio demanded from them or what the story demanded from them. Personally, I believe this will be your typical PG-13 wannabe franchise starter in the vein of Terminator: Genisys, the Robocop and Total Recall remakes and other similarly "gritty" mainstream tentpoles for kids. I hope to be proven wrong, but I doubt it. With a different director and a different studio I'd be a tad more optimistic, but this reeks of corporate filmmaking (according to writer Jonathan Herman, a committee of 8 writers worked on the film's script).
http://www.the-fanboy-perspective.com/a-rant-against-modern-tentpole-film-making.html share