Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Is More Exciting Now It's NOT A Star Wars Movie
Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is a much more exciting prospect now that it’s not a Star Wars movie. Once pitched to Lucasfilm as a Kurosawa-inspired Star Wars story, Rebel Moon has since taken on a life of its own and instead will debut on Netflix sometime in 2024. Recent Rebel Moon casting updates have made quite the splash, with Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, and Sofia Boutella all confirmed, despite more casting news inevitably still to come. As a result, Rebel Moon is shaping up to be a big release and is all the more intriguing now it’s not linked to an existing franchise.
Concept art revealed by Zack Snyder for Rebel Moon shows a Star Wars-meets-Dune-Esque world, and the film's short synopsis reveals a compelling if familiar tale. The plot appears a perfect match for Star Wars' expansive world, with Snyder revealing (via The Hollywood Reporter) that «The story is set in motion when a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. Desperate, the colonists dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand.» The fact that Rebel Moon will explore this type of narrative within a newly conceived universe, however, means that there is more room for original worldbuilding and trope reinventions than in the usual canon Star Wars movies.
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