Kanluwen wrote:I'd say unfounded gossip or some obscure announcement we missed, Metalli.
I was thinking so. Abnett isn't C.S.-Fething-Goto. This isn't going to be some All-Ages Gakfest movie. I don't think Abnett would've agreed to direct it if
GW told him it had to be suitable for a family film. If it were hitting major theatres they might say "Okay guys, easy on the chunks and the red stuff". But being that I've watched a lot of Direct movies in past years, a direct-to-DVD film generally has a much smaller target audience. D2D films tend to put more effort into pleasing that particular audience, because that audience is where they'll make most of their money. So if that audience expects gore, they'll get lots of it, because the last thing they want is to put out a bad film that most of their followers will avoid because of bad reviews, which is an error a small studio can't afford to make.
I'm thinking some
40K hater started telling people it'll be
PG-13 because they want to see this movie faulter, which is just a dumb plan in more ways than I can count (I only have 20 digits after all
)
To summarize, I think we have nothing to worry about. Like I said, Dan Abnett isn't some fethwad that's willing to tarnish himself in a big project like this just because
GW asked him not to scare the children. I can see Abnett thinking more along the lines of "Just don't show this movie to your kids then." or "Then we'll make an edited version that's less gory". But certainly not "Okay. I'll write a bad story with no gore if it means the Pokémon kids will like it."
I'm going to say this is going to be brutal as all. A "Clean" version might be added to the special features, but there's no way Abnett is going to bend over just because the moral crusader type parents would rather blame
GW than themselves for letting their kids watch a gory
40K movie.
