Zack Snyder's Star Wars homage spawns a "literally insane" video game

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Justice League director Zack Snyder has revealed that his upcoming Star Wars-inspired movie, the Netflix-destined Rebel Moon, is getting a tie-in video game. He's even gone so far as to describe the game as «literally insane».

As Snyder previously confirmed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (you can hear the chat at 26 minutes and 50 seconds into that episode), the idea for Rebel Moon was originally intended to take place in the Star Wars universe. Snyder pitched the idea to Lucasfilm in the years between the Star Wars prequel trilogy's release and the Disney takeover.

Now, Snyder has opted to reimagine Rebel Moon as an original intellectual property, with Netflix planning to release the movie on 22nd December 2023. Taking inspiration from Akira Kurosawa (the same director that famously inspired George Lucas), the film has been described by Netflix as Snyder's «new space fantasy epic, [where] a small colony on the outskirts of the galaxy is targeted by the insidious empire».

And that's not all! As we've learned today, Snyder is also working on a role-playing video game (RPG) set in the same universe. Snyder revealed the Rebel Moon game's existence during a video interview on a YouTube channel called The Nerd Queens.

If you jump into the video below at one hour, eight minutes and 26 seconds, you'll be able to hear him talking about it with your own ears.

Speaking about Rebel Moon's potential as a franchise in its own right, Snyder said, «The one thing that I'm having a really good time with — and I don’t really know if I’m supposed to talk about it — but, this RPG that we’re doing that is just literally insane, and so immersive and so intense and so huge.»

Snyder does not detail in the interview who he is making the game