The Predator franchise is built on blood, violence, and ugly mf’ers. That’s why every movie in the franchise, from the 1988 original to the animated film Predator: Killer of Killers has had the same rating: a hard and well-deserved “R.”

But that’s going to change with the latest entry. The upcoming Predator: Badlands will be rated PG-13, a rating that allows for some non-gory action and for the single use of a non-sexual f-bomb, but none of the carnage that most of associate with the attacks of the Yautja. Worse, the only films featuring the Yautja to get such a label were the Alien vs. Predator entries, neither of which are remembered fondly.

However, Badlands producer Ben Rosenblatt urges fans not to worry too much about the lack of an R rating. In fact, he contends that th

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