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vP 2 Goes For R Rating
The directors of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem screened 10 minutes of previously unseen footage in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 and told SCI FI Wire that they went for the R rating, unlike the previous installment's PG-13.
Brother directors Colin and Greg Strause showed parts of the final battle sequence at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention to about 200 fans, who whooped and applauded in appreciation. The filmmakers answered questions for about an hour and spent a second hour signing autographs.
"This is definitely going to be R-rated," Greg Strause said. "We didn't want to look like we were holding back."
The sneak peek showed a few new weapons used by the Predator, as well as the brutality of the alien. Heads got blown off, women got skewered, and aliens popped out of people's chests. In the footage, one character even dropped an F-bomb.
The directors added that they have gone back to the ridged-back design of the alien familiar to fans of James Cameron's Aliens. "The sleeker back may have looked good while in space, but the ridged back looks better when they're down here on Earth," Colin Strause said.
The Strause brothers are special-effects masters who have worked on X-Men: The Last Stand, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Fantastic Four; AvP: Requiem marks their feature-film directorial debut. The sequel is being released by 20th Century Fox on Christmas Day.
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The directors of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem screened 10 minutes of previously unseen footage in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 and told SCI FI Wire that they went for the R rating, unlike the previous installment's PG-13.
Brother directors Colin and Greg Strause showed parts of the final battle sequence at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention to about 200 fans, who whooped and applauded in appreciation. The filmmakers answered questions for about an hour and spent a second hour signing autographs.
"This is definitely going to be R-rated," Greg Strause said. "We didn't want to look like we were holding back."
The sneak peek showed a few new weapons used by the Predator, as well as the brutality of the alien. Heads got blown off, women got skewered, and aliens popped out of people's chests. In the footage, one character even dropped an F-bomb.
The directors added that they have gone back to the ridged-back design of the alien familiar to fans of James Cameron's Aliens. "The sleeker back may have looked good while in space, but the ridged back looks better when they're down here on Earth," Colin Strause said.
The Strause brothers are special-effects masters who have worked on X-Men: The Last Stand, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Fantastic Four; AvP: Requiem marks their feature-film directorial debut. The sequel is being released by 20th Century Fox on Christmas Day.
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