‘M3GAN’ Screenwriter Says Original Script “Was Way Gorier” & Unrated Version “Is On The Books”
deadline.comM3GAN is slaying at the box office and there are already plans for a sequel. Screenwriter Akela Cooper opened up about writing the script for the horror film and revealed that it was originally “gorier” and an unrated version is possibly in development. “No shade to Universal, love them, and I understand that once the trailer went viral, teenagers got involved and you want them to be able to see it.
There should be an unrated version at some point,” she said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “I heard it is on the books.
But yes, it was way gorier. Her body count in the script was higher than in the movie.” Cooper, who also wrote Malignant, said that M3GAN’s body count wasn’t a “scale massacre” like in the former movie “but she did kill a bunch more people, including a couple of characters whom James [Wan] was like, ‘I like what you did with those people, but I want them to live.’ I was merciless, but again, that is me.
My humor is extremely dark.” Although M3GAN is in the horror genre, it has some funny elements throughout. Cooper said that it’s “exciting” to see the shift from studio executives that were swaying away from gory films. “An exec who read one of my specs and really liked it said, ‘It’s gory and no one’s doing gore right now.
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