Zack Snyder Wants REBEL MOON - PART 2: THE SCARGIVER to "Feel Like DUNKIRK"
Zack Snyder has some big plans for his Rebel Moon sci-fi epic and it all starts with the two films Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire and Rebel Moon - Part 2: The Scargiver. The first film is going to set up the story and characters, but when the second film rolls around it’s going to go all out epic.
During a recent interview with actor Ed Skrein, who plays the villainous Admiral Noble, he explains that Snyder wanted the sequel to feel like Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and teased it has The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King vibes. The actor teased:
"I remember Zack saying with the second movie that he wanted it to feel like Dunkirk. So it's like, there's a space at the beginning, and then it's going off. And it's really, really going off. And, you know, Return of the King, Lord of the Rings vibes where it's like, 'Okay, we kind of know where they're going.' It's like, 'Alright, now let's just sit back, eat loads of popcorn, and watch it all kickoff.'"
Now, while the two films are telling a single story, they are still going to be very different movies. When talking about that, Skrein said:
"You'd think that, 'Oh, if it's one long movie, the tones will be pretty similar, just would have continued through.’ But movie two is a much different vibe, because if movie one was like, 'Here's all the characters, let's go find them and bring them together and then come back to Veldt,' movie two is really like a war movie. The tone is different."
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.”
This is a two-part film and each part will come with an R-rated edition that fans can watch as well. The movie stars Charlie Hunnam, Ed Skrein, Bae Doona, Djimon Hounsou. Ray Fisher, Jena Malone, Ed Skrein, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman, Anthony Hopkins, and Alfonso Herrera.
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire is scheduled to arrive on Netflix on December 22nd following a limited theatrical release. Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver is coming in April 2024.
Source: GamesRadar