“Rebel Moon” Photos & Snyder Talks Split

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Garth Franklin
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Netflix

Filmmaker Zack Snyder has released two new photos from his upcoming two-part sci-fi feature “Rebel Moon”, with the shots showing off an action sequence and a scene with Sofia Boutella and Charlie Hunnam’s characters.

Snyder has also spoken about the new film with Empire. For those unaware, the film’s story is set around a colony on the agricultural moon of Veldt.

The peace is threatened by the armies of the tyrannical regent Belisarius (Ed Skrein) and the ferocious and all-powerful Imperium, who’ve targeted the moon for its resources.

The natives, unhappy their existence is being threatened, turn to an isolated young woman named Kora (Sofia Boutella) for help – one with her own past history with the Imperium. She sets out in search of warriors from other planets to fight the tyrannical armies.

With the extension to two parts, Snyder says it allowed his story to breathe:

“If we cut it down to one movie, we pretty much know how that goes. By page 15 we’re on the road. With a recruitment movie, trust me, I know. There are no surprises in that [single] movie. Four hours is a whole different kettle of fish.”

The result is ‘Part One’ will essentially be the recruitment film leading to the second part being more explosive with Snyder dubbing the second part: “The war movie, like a Normandy invasion film, but with the first hour in France.”

Snyder says the two-part scope will allow time to establish the characters and explore the film’s themes:

“It’s very much a movie about, ‘What would you sacrifice yourself for?’. Everyone’’s a little bit broken, but there’s a real catharsis in the journey.”

Deborah Snyder, who produces the film, calls the new movie “an accumulation of everything” Zack has done so far. She says there’s “so much thought in the production design and the languages and the characters”.

New cover art for the film is up at Empire. The first part of “Rebel Moon” arrives on Netflix on December 22nd.

Source: Empire