Lin-Manuel Miranda’s filmed version of the “Hamilton” stage production, set to debut on Disney+ next week, will be rated PG-13 due to “language and some suggestive material”.
The Motion Picture Association of America has one established hard rule – any use of the word f–k more than once is an automatic R-rating. The show uses it three times.
As Disney rarely releases movies with an R-rating, those four-letter words have had to been censored or edited out. Miranda has now taken to Twitter to reveal how they’ve done it.
They’ve kept one in, but the other two have been pulled. One has a mute over “I get the f— back up again” during the song “Yorktown,” the other has a record scratch noise over the phrase “Southern motherf–kin’ Democratic Republicans” in the song “Washington on Your Side”.
Other than that, Miranda reassures that “on July 3, you’re getting the whole show, every note & scene, & a one-minute countdown clock during intermission (bathroom!).”
Miranda told The New York Times in February: “If we have to mute a word here or there to reach the largest audience possible, I’m OK with that, because your kids already have the original language memorized. I don’t think we’re depriving anyone of anything if we mute an f-bomb here or there to make our rating.”
“Hamilton” arrives on the service on Friday July 3rd.
Source: Twitter
