James Gunn says he received some pretty harsh pushback from Warner Bros. when making 2002's live-action Scooby-Doo, as the studio wanted something a bit more family-friendly.
"The first movie was a nightmare. People know that our first rating was rated R – it was about something stupid; it was not an R-rated movie," Gunn told The Viall Files podcast, when asked about the notes he received on his 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo movie. "We cut that one thing and then it was PG-13. We had written and directed a movie that was for teenagers, that was basically a little more like Austin Powers – it was more risque."
