Why Rebel Moon Will Probably Feel Familiar To Zack Snyder Fans
Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon could be putting a sci-fi spin on one of Snyder's previous movies, explaining why the film may feel familiar to some viewers. A two-part story, Rebel Moon will focus on a woman named Kora (Sofia Boutella) assembling a group of warriors to defend her people after they find themselves under attack by the sinister Regent Belisarius (Ed Skrein) and his forces. Though Rebel Moon will take place in a far away galaxy, owing to its original conception by Snyder as a Star Wars movie, its story might have some Earth-bound influences from Snyder's own 2007 movie 300.
Based upon Frank Miller's graphic novel, 300 re-tells the famed Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartan soldiers held off a Persian invasion for three days. Both Miller's graphic novel and Snyder's movie are extremely stylized versions of the story, narrated from a Spartan perspective by the soldier Dilios (David Wenham), with both being major hits for the two storytellers behind them. Rebel Moon's story, while probably lacking the moral ambiguity of the Spartans in 300, nonetheless does not sound that far off from the fundamentals of the iconic movie.
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Like the Greek city-state of Sparta, Kora's home world not only faces an invasion, but seemingly impossible odds against a conquering army. Like King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) in 300, Kora is set to form a line of defense against her planet's enemies, while both armies include a centralized commanding villain, Balisarius in the case of Rebel Moon and King Xeres (Rodrigo Santoro) in 300. Though Snyder has never spoken of Rebel Moon as a sci-fi homage to 300, ideas he's had for a continuation of the latter could
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