There is an R-rated cut of The Mag that we'll never see

Upcoming shark movie The Meg, which stars Jason Statham among others, might have loads of people getting eaten in it, but it will not be rated-R/18. There is, however, an R-rated cut of the movie somewhere, although it's one we'll never see according to director Jon Turteltaub.

"We shot or even did a lot of visual effects for gory scenes," the director told Bloody Disgusting. "We just realized there's no way we're keeping this PG-13 if we show this. It's too fun a movie to not let people who don't like blood and people who are under, say, 14 years old into the theater. I was very hesitant to cut out a lot of blood and gore. I wouldn't have if I thought it was wrecking the story but it wasn't. It still looked okay.

"The problem nowadays with those unrated DVDs is you used to have a bunch of scenes that were easy to either shoot or leave on the cutting room floor. Now to finish a scene costs millions in VFX. No one's going to be spending millions of dollars just to have a little extra bonus footage."