8 Superheroes That Should Go R-Rated Next

4) Hancock

The reason Peter Berg’s Hancock feels so neutered is simply because, well, it was. From first draft to release, the film altered dramatically. What was originally a pitch-black, hard R superhero movie changed to become a generic superhero flick barely distinguishable from the usual PG-13 fare.

Vincent Ngo’s Tonight, He Comes – the basis for Hancock – was a widely circulated script featuring a dangerous, violent alcoholic of a superman who kidnaps his love interest and massacres police officers. Hancock threw all of that out.

Now that the landscape’s changed, Ngo’s original script could finally be put on the screen as intended. The film as it was meant to be was highly acclaimed, with both critics and comic book fans still praising the screenplay even today.

According to Film School Rejects, around 95% of the material in Ngo’s script was changed on the way to making the much less enthusiastically received Hancock. Today, Ngo’s story could feasibly be put on film as it was meant to be.