Batman V Superman R-Rated Cut Adds 30 Minutes

‘Batman V Superman’ is adding a lot of footage for the Blu-ray…

According to director Zack Snyder, the upcoming R-Rated Blu-ray cut will add as much as 30 minutes to the runtime of DC’s epic superhero clash.

“[The DVD version] is a half-hour longer, and some of that additional material is some of the stuff we took out for the rating,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I was like, ‘Cool, I can put it back in for the director’s cut’.”

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“There was nothing by design,” he added. “This was the material I just put back in, and then when [the MPAA] looked at it again, they were like, ‘Oh, now the movie’s rated R.’ And, by the way, it’s not a hard R. There’s no nudity. There’s a little bit of violence. It just tips the scale.”

Of course, one of the major ‘Batman V Superman’ cuts was the entire role of Jenna Malone… and it’s likely that this appearance will find its way back into the movie when it comes to Snyder’s R-rated director’s cut.

But how did the R-rated cut come about?

Ever since the release of ‘Deadpool’, fans have wondered whether the addition of R-rated material in ‘Batman V Superman’ came about due to the hugely positive response to the Merc with a Mouth.

But Deb Snyder – Zack’s wife and co-producer – said that’s simply not the case.

“Online, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, they’re doing an R-rated in reaction to Deadpool’,” she said. “And you’re like [laughing], ‘We didn’t just shoot it last week, and we also didn’t edit it last week’.”

Either way, it looks as though R-rated superhero movies are making a comeback… but don’t expect all of DC’s ‘Justice League’ movies to follow suit.

“The mandate is that we try and make the best movies we can,” said Zack. “If you’re making a Flash movie with Ezra Miller, it’s like millennial Flash. It’s going to be a little lighter than making a World War I epic with this feminist icon like Wonder Woman. The films do live in a united universe. I feel like the danger is — and I think that the studio would acknowledge this — when you start to mimic things like tone. Then, when you go to the movie, you pretty much know the experience you’re going to have.”

And it’s not all doom and gloom for ‘Batman V Superman’.

“The most serious movies I’ve made in the past always have irony in them,” he said. “I just gave it the weight that it deserves as far as the mythological conformation. But it’s still a guy in a red and blue suit fighting a guy in a black suit. I mean, they’re in costumes. The movie is fun, and Batman fights Superman. If you can’t have fun there, then something’s kind of wrong with you.”

‘Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice’ heads to cinemas on 25 March 2016.

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Picture Credit: Warner Bros.