REBEL MOON Star Teases R-Rated Cut: "We've Never Seen Anything Like It"
Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire has been a huge hit for Netflix. The film has been getting mixed reviews and reactions from audiences, but it must be delivering solid entertainment that people are enjoying. The version of the film that’s currently streaming is the PG-13 cut, but there’s an R-rated cut coming next year, and Rebel Moon star Ed Skrein recently teased that this extended cut is going to be much dark and different from anything we’ve ever seen before. He told The Hollywood Reporter:
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember anyone ever doing this before, especially shooting two different movies and a PG-13 and a R-rated version. Knowing what we shot for the R-rated version, Zack and Netflix did an incredible job of putting together the PG-13 version. So it was always an interesting proposition to see what they did with the PG-13 cut, and I was really pleased. I feel like it's a really strong piece, but the shadow of the Snyder Cut looms large. My son is 12 years old, and he came to the London premiere and loved it. I also brought my godson, my nephew and his best mate, and they loved it, because [the PG-13 cut] is really for that demographic. I feel it has the potential to be something seminal for that demographic. But the R-rated version, the Snyder cut, 'the extended cut,' as we're supposed to call it, has the potential to be something seminal for the older generation."
He continued teasing that the film is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before and explained why it’s a hardcore film:
"When I watch something, I just want to see something new. I don't need to love something. I don't need to find it perfect. I can see flaws in it, whether it's a painting, a song or a film, but if it's new, then I come away and say, 'Wow, that was great. That made me feel something.' So you're going to see something f---ing new in that R-rated cut, and we've never seen anything like it. We've seen Lars von Trier push cinema to the edges. We've seen Saw and Hostile and all those kinds of movies push violence quite far for a commercial entity, and of course, we've seen what we did with Deadpool. That film pushed the superhero genre to another place, but there was still comedy involved in that. But this s--t is not funny. This is f---ed-up empires in space and evil human nature evolving and playing out on an intergalactic level. It's hardcore."
In the story, a group of ragtag rebels rise up to fight against a giant, evil Empire. It’s set in a “peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius. They dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a stand against the Tyrant.”
The movie also stars Charlie Hunnam, Bae Doona, Djimon Hounsou. Ray Fisher, Jena Malone, Ed Skrein, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman, Anthony Hopkins, and Alfonso Herrera.