The Walt Disney Company has recently hit something of a stride when it comes to the unpredictable art of remodeling its own animated catalogue into live-action movies (though some of their projects stretch the meaning of the phrase “live-action”) marketed toward the now-adult audiences who fell in love with those original films. In between modest performers like last year’s Dumbo and the-year-before’s Christopher Robin, the studio has released bona-fide blockbuster remakes of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, following in the tradition of their 2010 live-action version of Alice in Wonderland (whose own 2016 sequel experienced a considerably less successful run).

Whether they broke into the billion-dollar club or not, all of Disney’s remakes have shared at least one trait in common: they’ve all earned the relatively tame PG rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. But this year’s retelling of the Ballad of Mulan is about to change that. Disney’s latest adaptation of the Chinese warrior Hua Mulan, said to be a more grounded story that will adhere more closely to the original folktale, has reportedly been assigned a PG-13 rating, meaning that “parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.”

This isn’t exactly surprising, as Mulan is essentially a war movie, and it isn’t the first time that a live-action Disney film has earned the Strongly Cautious rating. Jerry Bruckheimer first broke Disney out of its comfort zone in 2003 when he produced the PG-13-rated inaugural installment of the popular Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, The Curse of the Black Pearl. Based on the beloved attractions at all five Disney theme parks around the world, the film set the stage for four subsequent sequels, each of which was given a PG-13 by the MPAA.

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