BLACK CHRISTMAS Writer Reveals How Remake Snagged PG-13
Blumhouse and director Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas remake hits theaters this weekend. And today co-writer April Wolfe talked a bit about how the movie managed to snag its PG-13 rating.
She tells Daily Dead:
“… a sticking point for Sophia was the fact that there are obviously some overt ideas about date rape in this movie. And there is an old text that has been going around the studios, and it has the language that you can’t use in PG-13 movies. It has not been updated. People just use it as a guide, but one of the words that you can’t use is rape. And so for us, we were like, we’re going to get an R rating because she’s saying the word rape. So, we put some f–ks in there.”
She continues:
“And it turns out that the MPAA was actually totally fine with us using the word rape, and then talking about date rape, too. But it’s so meaningful to us that 13-year-olds can go and see this movie that is talking about date rape, because it’s something that these kids are going to have to deal with pretty soon, unfortunately, in many cases. So, Sophia and I, we were psyched about the PG-13 rating. When the word got around, we all sent texts to each other, and it was just like, “Oh, this is really great. You know, more people get to see the movie and young girls, they get to see it, and they get to have these really complex and necessary discussions because of it.”
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