“This is absolute bullshit and Sony and Sony Pictures is gonna get hell for F**KING with our movies,” Apatow wrote on Twitter.
The clean version of his Step Brothers excludes 152 uses of bad language, 91 instances of sexual content, and 22 of violence.
A representative for McKay said the director was had only just become aware of the clean versions “would not have agreed to this.”
Now, Judd Apatow, Adam McKay, and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) have all critics the scheme, Apatow and McKay having worked on many of the affected films, such as Step Brothers and Talladega Nights.