Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Footage Reveals 1 Big Advantage Over Star Wars
Zack Snyder’s upcoming sci-fi movie Rebel Moon has an advantage over Star Wars in terms of character designs. The two-part sci-fi adventure Rebel Moon—focusing on a colony in another galaxy fighting off an incoming invasion—was originally put together by Snyder as a Star Wars movie. It has since been modified into its own separate universe, and Snyder has put his own distinct spin on some of the major aspects of Star Wars as a space opera.
Snyder’s recently released make-up test as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week shows a character with purple skin and large horns (shown above). While the identity of who this character will be in Rebel Moon remains unknown, it highlights Snyder seemingly intended for characters with alien features to be designed in a specific way. Namely, one that allows the actors under the make-up to have their faces more visible on camera, and this has the benefit of allowing their full performances to shine through.
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Star Wars has many famous alien humanoid characters. Many of the best known, such as Han Solo's Wookie friend Chewbacca, Greedo, the Tusken Raiders, and many others are designed in such a way that the actors playing them are completely obscured from view. While there’s nothing wrong with this approach in and of itself, it has led to a fairly high number of Star Wars’ alien characters hiding their actors from the audience under elaborate suits and make-up.
Others like C-3PO, R2-D2, or Jabba The Hutt have hidden everything but the voices of the actors attached to them. Even characters like Boba Fett or The Mandalorian’s Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), by their cultural backgrounds, have to hide their faces from view the
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