The Playlist reports

IESB (who like to chestpuff a lot of their rumored news of late) is reporting that Warner Brothers is now stopping R-rated superhero movies, and perhaps to what is being perceived, and not entirely inaccurately, as the failure of the expensive Zack Snyder film, "Watchmen."

So I guess this means no more "adult" comic book adaptations. I wonder if this will change the way producers of comic book content design their stories in an effort to secure a potential film adaptation.

This really stinks, Warner was the only company taking chances. They made a gutsy Batman movie and an amazingly faithful adaptation of an "adult" themed graphic novel with Watchmen, which had more gore than the book. It's too bad that the "recessed" economy is now directly changing content on the big screen and soccer moms are determining the fate of comic book adaptations. Imagine: Would Watchmen been that great with out all of that cartoon gore? I know for many the answer is yes, and second-day ticket sales directly reflect this. But I just don't see how they could have told Rorschach's story with a PG rating. Maybe all this content will migrate back to HBO? I hope so.