Did you know Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises originally had a death scene so gratuitous that it had to be cut in order to prevent the film from receiving an NC-17 rating?
The actor revealed as much during an interview on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast where he revealed how Foley’s death was much more gratuitous in the original cut.
But [Nolan] said that if he would have put it in the movie, it would’ve got an NC-17 rating because it was so violent.”
As it stands, Foley gets killed off screen per Miranda Tate’s orders in a relatively harmless, though still impactful way.