Prometheus To Be Released With An R Rating!

Thank the space jockey, Fox has announced that Prometheus will indeed be rated R! The MPAA has issued Ridley Scott’s return to the sci-fi genre an R rating for “sci-fi violence including some intense images, and brief language.” These days studio’s tend to water down movies to get PG-13 ratings because they fear the dreaded R rating. Big budget movies that are rated R, such as Prometheus, are seen as risky business because they limit the exposure to younger audiences. I’m sure I’m not the only one though who will be glad to see Sir Ridley’s R rated return to the universe he helped launch with 1979’s Alien. Gods forbid we should have to sit through another PG-13 alien movie because we all remember how “awesome” Alien vs. Predator was.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce and is set for release on June 8th.