Empire has shared its world-exclusive cover story for Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder’s upcoming, two-part sci-fi movie for Netflix that originally began as a Star Wars pitch, and with it comes the news that the director is going all-in with the franchise, planning “endless” films, tv shows, and possibly more. The new movie, which Snyder says is an “accumulation of everything he’s done thus far,” stars Anthony Hopkins as a robot and Ray Fisher with a four-foot gun, among other cast members. Rebel Moon’s first half begins streaming on Netflix December 22.
The writer-director penned a 450-page Rebel Moon ‘bible’, detailing all kinds of lore and backstories pertaining to the evil Imperium. He has an expansive timeline that extends long before and after the two current films. (“This is the small board,” Snyder laughs of the version he shows Empire in his Pasadena offices. “The big board is over at my office on the hill. It’s three times the size of this.”) And all being well, much of it could end up on the screen – plans have been mooted for a TV series which would explore the history of Fra Fee’s Balisarius, the saga’s real Big Bad. And in a proposed third film, audiences will finally get to visit… well, the rebel moon. “The Rebel Moon is not the moon that they’re on,” Snyder clarifies. “The title was conceptual, but there’s a planet named Vanna, and Vanna is the rebel moon. It’s not even in one shot of this movie!”
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