HBO Max’s upcoming four-hour cut of Zack Snyder’s Justice League has officially received an R rating from the MPAA ahead of its March release date.
The original 2017 version of Justice League, which was directed in part by Avengers director Joss Whedon, was rated PG-13 for “sequences of sci-fi violence and action,” whereas the upcoming four-hour director’s cut has been elevated to an R rating for “violence and some language.” Director Zack Snyder has previously alluded to the “language” that may have earned this adult rating. “There’s one scene where Batman drops an F-bomb,” Zack Snyder said in a December 2020 interview. “Cyborg is not too happy with what’s going on with his life before he meets the Justice League, and he tends to speak his mind. And Steppenwolf is pretty much just hacking people in half. So [the rating would be due to] violence and profanity, probably both.”