Sofia Boutella Set to Star in Zack Snyder's Sci-Fi Film REBEL MOON
Director Zack Snyder has cast Sofia Boutella (The Kingsman, The Mummy, Star Trek Beyond) to star in his upcoming Netflix sci-fi project Rebel Moon. The film is based on a Star Wars idea that he pitched to Lucasfilm, who passed on it, so Snyder took the story and reworked it to be a standalone original film.
The story is 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.”
With the casting of Boutella, Snyder is obviously going to have this character he created for the story kicking all kinds of ass. She’s great, and it’ll be cool to see how he ends up utilizing the actress in this role.
Snyder previously teased the epic scale of the film saying, "The beginning of Man of Steel has pretty big science fiction elements in it, right? Krypton. That's kind of what we're doing in Rebel Moon, but on the biggest steroids that I can give it. Frankly, what I'm really interested [in] with this movie is creating a romantic sci-fi film on a scale that is frankly as big as you can make the movie."
Snyder also said that he hopes he can build out the universe that Rebel Moon will introduce us to, “This is me growing up as an Akira Kurosawa fan, a Star Wars fan. It's my love of sci-fi and a giant adventure. My hope is that this also becomes a massive IP and a universe that can be built out."
Snyder is directing the film as well as co-writing it with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad. Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller and Snyder will produce for The Stone Quarry along with Eric Newman for Grand Electric.
Source: Deadline