NEON .’s upcoming horror movie infinity pool is minted with an NC-17 rating, but it may not stick. The film comes from Brandon Cronenberg, the son of genre legend David Cronenberg who has recently carved his own path in horror with films like Antiviral and owner. Mia Gothwho is currently on the big screen as the star of the X precursor Pearlstars in infinity pool next Alexander Skarsgard (real blood, the Norman). It will be released in the United States by NEON, with Elevation Pictures handling Canadian distribution.
past to FilmRatings.com (per JoBlo), the official review for infinity pool has been revealed. It has been given the NC-17 rating for “some graphic violence and sexual content.” While an NC-17 rating isn’t always the death knell for a movie, as is the case with Marilyn Monroe’s biopic blond heading to Netflix where that doesn’t really matter, it could be a problem for other movies with planned theatrical releases. NEON has formally appealed that NC-17 rating, so this could eventually be reduced to an R rating before release, although this may include some footage of infinity pool be clipped.
An official logline for infinity pool is as follows:
James and Em are young, rich, in love and on vacation. Their all-inclusive resort offers island tours and gleaming beaches. But beyond the hotel gates, something far more dangerous and tempting awaits, beyond the edge of paradise.
Cronenberg wrote and directed Infinity Pool. The film is produced by Karen Harnisch and Andrew Cividino of Film Forge, alongside Rob Cotterill and Noah Segal and Christina Piovesan of Elevation Pictures. Daniel Kresmery and Jonathan Halperyn co-produce for Hero Squared, while Anita Juka co-produce for 4 Film. Skarsgard will executive produce with Tom Quinn, Jeff Deutchman and Emily Thomas of NEON, as well as Michael Bloom, Maria Zuckerman and Ryan Heller of Topic Studios. Hengameh Panahi and Charlotte Mickie of Celluloid Dream are also executive producers.
Blonde is stuck with his NC-17 rating
In case of blond, the NC-17 rating of the Marilyn Monroe biopic has not been invoked. Director Andrew Dominik has not apologized for the rating, as he felt he wanted to include the spicier scenes in the film as a way of staying honest about Monroe’s true story, regardless of the rating that triggered it.
“It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe,” said Dominik, via ScreenDaily. “It’s kind of what you want, isn’t it? I want to go see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story. It’s a demanding movie. If the audience doesn’t like it, that’s the f—- -g problem of the public. It is not running for public office.”
For her part, star Ana de Armas thought the NC-17 rating wasn’t even justified blond. She told THR after the movie got its rating that she’s seen other movies and shows with more explicit content that have been rated R, so she doesn’t quite understand.
“I can tell you some shows or movies that are much more explicit with much more sexual content than… blond‘, she said. “But in order to tell this story, it’s important to show all these moments in Marilyn’s life that made her end up the way she did. It had to be explained. Everybody [in the cast] knew we had to go to awkward places. I was not alone.”