‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Almost Got an NC-17 Rating
Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy never shied away from pushing the dark-and-gritty envelope with its visuals, atmosphere, and violent depiction of the perpetually crime-riddled Gotham City. Nolan's viscerally grounded take on the Caped Crusader emerged as a cultural and artistic course correction to Joel Schumacher's campy, overwhelmingly derided Batman & Robin.
During The Dark Knight Rises's third act, Talia reveals her identity to a shocked Batman before driving away in a military van. Thanks to some smart work from Batman's allies, Talia has to manually detonate a bomb for her destructive plan to succeed. Her departure happens during an ongoing fight between Bane's soldiers and Gotham police officers.
Thankfully, the stunt performer in question seems to have suffered no serious injuries. After that first take, Nolan didn’t shoot the scene again. Instead, he later told Modine he cut the scene because it "was so violent that it would have gotten an NC-17 rating." Indeed, Foley's death is far tamer in the final cut than the stunt Modine described.
A superhero movie with an NC-17 rating would've been the first of its kind, and there's a strong possibility The Dark Knight Rises's profits would have suffered. Even an R-rating was too much for an audience-friendly PG-13 trilogy of such enormous commercial and critical success. Christopher Nolan is no stranger to the R-rating, but the MPAA has yet to grade his work any higher than an R. Like a superhero rescuing his city, Nolan did what was necessary.
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