Zack Snyder breaks down his bloody, explicit Netflix show's mature rating: "I was waiting for them to tell me to stop, but they never did"

"From the start, when they asked me whether I'd be interested in doing an animated series, I was like, 'Well, I'll do it if it's adult animation,'" Zack Snyder tells us of his new Netflix Norse mythology adaptation, Twilight of the Gods. "Because, for me, that's a new frontier, especially in America, this idea of animation that's not for kids, an adult animated series. And so I thought, in that way, if we could do that, that would be something I haven't seen a lot of.

" The eight episode series follows a woman named Sigrid, who, after her family is brutally slain by Thor on her wedding day, embarks on a bloody, grisly mission of revenge. Along the way, there's plenty of gut-spilling action, explicit sex scenes, and brutal battles. Game of Thrones, eat your heart out.

.. "It's funny, because, also we've just had Blue Eye Samurai, which is also a sort of insane tone, but really fun," Snyder continues.

"[It was] super fun to make, and the artists are all dying to do adult, something adult, so it was fun. Really, for me, it's just kind of my natural aesthetic, and it's just easier." Executive producer Wesley Coller adds that the very nature of the story they were telling lent itself to securing that show's TV-MA rating, the equivalent of a movie's R-rating, too.

"With the scale of the mythology and the themes and the story that [Snyder] wanted to tell, it leaned into that naturally, again, with [his] aesthetic. And so I think to have the opportunity to explore this story in this wo.