These new Rebel Moon photos and details, courtesy of Vanity Fair give us plenty to get excited about when it comes to Zack Snyder’s new sci-fi thriller!
The images (below) give us some all-important visual insight into what we can expect from the film (including the Star Wars influences), with several characters and settings pictured below. We’re not gonna lie, it looks pretty damn fun so far!
So, what’s the premise? Well, 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.”
You can definitely see why this is an idea that Snyder pitched to Lucasfilm years ago! So, what separates Rebel Moon from Star Wars now?
Snyder said:
“This movie was me going, ‘Of course it’s a space opera, but let’s not lens it that way. Let’s lens it in a more intimate way, so that the sci-fi elements feel more grounded.’ We’re not always saying, ‘Look at how big our spaceships are or how weird our planets look!’ That happens, but it happens as an organic part of the world you’re in. You’re there, and so the things you see on that journey are not forced upon you or spoon-fed to you.”
He went on to describe one of the starships featured in the film, called ‘The King’s Gaze’:
“That ship is a world destroyer. There’s, like, 8,000 soldiers on that ship. They’ve got, like, 200 dropships and 100 tanks, and it has this huge boom-boom howitzer. It could raze the surface of a planet. If they just fired on a planet for three days straight, there’d be nothing left. They do that a lot.”
The Star Wars influence is definitely strong in this one (get it?)! However, you may be pleased to learn that the lightsabers have been replaced by… FLAMING SWORDS! Doona Bae‘s character Nemesis is the one that gets to wield these, but here’s what Snyder had to say about that:
“These swords are powered by the gauntlets that she holds. The gauntlets are these ancient [artifacts] from her home world, and part of the rite of passage of being a warrior in her world is you have to cut your arm off, and then you put these kind of robot arms on. That allows you to wield these molten-metal blades.”
So, without further ado, let’s take a lookit at some of these images!
Rebel Moon is set to be released in two parts, the first one coming to Netflix on the 22nd December. There will be a regular-length version of both, as well as extended, R-rated cuts – in case you fancy something a touch more hardcore.
Source: GeekTyrant
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