When Disney+ launched its month-to-month YouTube video updating subscribers on what movies and exhibits they may stay up for watching in April, it included a quite shocking title: Kiss of the Dragon. This Jet Li motion thriller is likely one of the movies Disney acquired when it purchased the twentieth Century Fox library from 2001. It’s not a very outstanding film, however its addition to Disney+ would have been fairly notable — as a result of Kiss of the Dragon is rated R for “for robust violence, language, some sexuality and drug content material.”
Whereas Disney+ has added some edgier materials in current months, together with The Defenders tv sequence that Marvel initially produced for an grownup viewers on Netflix, they usually’ve lately made customers replace their parental management settings particularly to make sure youthful audiences don’t get their eyeballs on these kinds of exhibits, it nonetheless doesn’t supply a single R-rated film. If that month-to-month itemizing video had been right, Kiss of the Dragon would have been the primary R-rated film in Disney+ historical past.
Whereas a number of websites like What’s On Disney+ hyped the arrival of the primary R-rated Disney+ film, Disney later reached out to clarify that the movie’s itemizing had been a mistake; Kiss of the Dragon is becoming a member of Disney+ on April 29 — however solely in Canada, not the US. Whereas the American model of Disney+ has restrictions on R-rated materials, many worldwide variations of the service do supply adult-oriented movies and exhibits.
In America, Disney’s extra grownup content material lives on Hulu, a very separate web site (one that’s, fairly importantly, not branded to Disney and its picture of healthful leisure for the entire household). The extra Disney+ does add exhibits like The Defenders and Daredevil — after which add pretty harrowing violence and motion to exhibits like Moon Knight — the extra I wonder if Disney+ is drifting in the direction of a broader array of content material, and what meaning for Hulu when that occurs.
You may see what’s truly coming to Disney+ in April beneath.
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