Merrick here...
A week or two ago, confirmation came from Sly Stallone that this Summer's EXPENDABLES 2 would now carry an 'R' rating, as opposed to the softened, surprising, and unpopular PG-13 rating which had been previously announced (details HERE).
In THIS discussion with Empire, the mighty Dolph Lundgren - who reprises his Gunnar Jensen role for the sequel - chimes in on the matter, confirming that...
"I heard that it's now R again," says Dolph. "Stallone's basic setting is to make it very violent.
[EDIT]
...I think for the fans, if it's tougher it's better."
Regarding whether Chuck Norris pressured the project's assumed 'R' rating down to a PG-13 as a condition of his involvement in EXPENDABLES 2, Lundgren revealed...
"Chuck likes to re-cut all of his films before he shows them to his kids," grins Dolph. "He told me he has his own editor. So it's irrelevant! He could make it a G-rating if he wanted to!"
..implying that the move may've been initially conceived because PG-13 movies can make more money.
EXPENDABLES 2 emasculates every man not in its cast on 17 August.
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