Suicide Squad Gets Officially Rated PG-13

Suicide Squad has officially been rated as PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. This doesn’t come as a surprise considering the violence, language content and other criteria that the association may have seen throughout the movie. According to the MPAA, "sequences of violence and action throughout, disturbing behavior and suggestive content and language" were the reasons Suicide Squad was rated as such.

Entertainment Weekly broke the news of the rating, although director David Ayer had made it clear before they were filming for a PG-13, since he said in April that “For an R movie, you have to decide to do it right out the gate, and that was never the case here. We were always going to hit the PG-13 rating. But the film is meant to be that.”

In April, Ayer said despite going for PG-13, the film still has plenty of edge and attitude. “And it’s got its own voice… There’s a lot in the film that’s going to surprise people,” Ayer explained. The movie will star Jared Leto as The Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller and Ben Affleck reprising his role as Batman. Squad is scheduled to hit theatres on Aug. 5.

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