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Rebel Moon
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| Directed by | Zack Snyder |
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| Story by | Zack Snyder |
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| Cinematography | Zack Snyder[1] |
| Edited by | Dody Dorn |
| Music by | Tom Holkenborg[2] |
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| Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 134 minutes[3] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $166 million (shared with Part Two)[4] |
Rebel Moon (also known as Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire) is a 2023 American epic space opera film directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten, based on a story Snyder conceived.[5][6][7][8] The film features an ensemble cast that includes Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Cleopatra Coleman, Jena Malone, Fra Fee, Ed Skrein, and Anthony Hopkins. The film is set in a fictional galaxy ruled by the Motherworld, in which its military, the Imperium, threatens a farming colony on the moon Veldt, and Kora, a former Imperium soldier, ventures on a quest to recruit warriors from across the galaxy to make a stand against the Imperium before they return to Veldt.
Rebel Moon had a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 15, 2023, ahead of its streaming debut on December 21, 2023, by Netflix. The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
An extended cut is set for release in early 2024, while a direct sequel, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, is scheduled for release on April 19, 2024.[9][10][11]
Plot[edit]
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In a distant galaxy, the Motherworld is a militaristic empire fueled by centuries of conquest and war. The current king welcomes a daughter, Princess Issa, who possesses a rare gift of healing and resurrection. This is taken as a sign of redemption for the Motherworld, as the royal family has grown weary of conflict and hopes that Issa will unify the empire not through force but through compassion. Instead, Issa and her parents are publicly assassinated during her coronation, and Balisarius, a prominent senator, declares himself Regent and renews the empire's conquests with the support of Admiral Atticus Noble, a sadisticmilitary leader.
On the independent planet of Veldt, Noble and his men arrive and insist that Father Sindri, a local village chieftain, sell them grain to replenish their food stocks as they hunt for a band of rebels known as Clan Bloodaxe. An ambitious farmer named Gunnar disagrees with Sindri's refusal to deal with Noble; the Admiral then beats Sindri to death and orders Gunnar to prepare all of the village's grain before he returns. One of the villagers, Kora, packs her things to leave, but when she sees Imperium soldiers attempting to rape a young woman, she confronts and kills them. Kora reveals to the villagers that she is a former member of the Imperium, the Motherworld's finest troops.
Kora and Gunnar depart for Providence, a nearby port town, to assemble a band of warriors and defend Veldt against Noble's fleet. They first recruit Kai, a smuggler and criminal. He takes them to two additional warriors, a tamer of beasts known as Takkar and a talented cyborg swordswoman, Nemesis. Kora ventures to a remote moon to recruit Titus, a disgraced Imperium commander reduced to prize fighting. Gunnar learns from Kora that she was raised by Balisarius after her world fell to the Imperium, and that she feels a sense of guilt for Issa's death as she once served as the princess's bodyguard.
Knowing that they cannot defend against Noble's ship, the King's Gaze, the warriors use Gunnar's previous dealings with Clan Bloodaxe to meet their leaders, siblings Darrian and Devra, and request the use of their starfighters. Darrian and half the clan agree to help, but Devra, who considers such a fight hopeless and a waste of their resources, retreats with the other half to safety.
Cast[edit]
- Sofia Boutella as Kora, a former member of the Imperium who rallies warriors from across the galaxy to fight against the Motherworld.
- Djimon Hounsou as Titus, a former general of the Imperium recruited to lead the fight against the Motherworld.
- Charlie Hunnam as Kai, a mercenary and starship pilot hired by Kora.
- Michiel Huisman as Gunnar, a farmer and friend of Kora who joins her in her attempts to defend his homeworld, Veldt.
- Staz Nair as Tarak, a nobleman-turned-blacksmith, with the ability to bond with animals of nature and rally them in combat, who is recruited by Kora.
- Doona Bae as Nemesis, a cyborg swordmaster with a strong sense of honor, who is recruited by Kora.
- Ray Fisher as Darrian Bloodaxe, a warrior recruited by Kora. He works alongside his sister Devra, the two of them leading an insurgent group that fights against the Imperium.
- Cleopatra Coleman as Devra Bloodaxe, Darrian's sister who doubts the worthiness of Kora's cause.
- E. Duffy as Millius, a rebel fighter under Darrian's command.
- Anthony Hopkins as Jimmy, the last member of a race of mechanical knights that served under the fallen king, recruited by Kora.[12]
- Dustin Ceithamer as the stand-in of Jimmy
- Alfonso Herrera as Cassius, Noble's team warrior[13]
- Jena Malone as Harmada, a humanoid alien with spider-like features who seeks revenge on humans for polluting and overmining the planet Daggus.
- Ed Skrein as Admiral Atticus Noble, Balisarius' right-hand man, a high-ranking Imperium officer who revels in cruelty and suffering.
- Fra Fee as Regent Balisarius, a tyrant who seized control of the Motherworld after the murders of the royal family. He is also Kora's adoptive father.
- Ingvar Sigurdsson as Hagen, a friend of Kora who helped her rebuild her life after she abandoned the Imperium.
- Charlotte Maggi as Sam, a kind and hard-working farm girl, who warmly welcomes any outsiders that come to her village.[14][15]
- Corey Stoll as Father Sindri, a village chief of Veldt.
Additionally, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Rhian Rees, and Ray Porter, who acted out and recorded the film's script for Snyder to listen to while preparing the day's shoot,[16] appeared as Den, The King, The Queen, and Hickman respectively.[17]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Rebel Moon is inspired by the works of Akira Kurosawa, the Star Wars films and Heavy Metal magazines; its logo is a homage to the latter.[18] The project began development as a Star Wars film that Snyder had pitched to Lucasfilm, shortly after the sale of Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. This pitch was to be a more mature take on the Star Wars universe.[19] Snyder also pitched the idea as both a video game and a film to Warner Bros. Pictures "a couple of times".[20] The project was later redeveloped by producer Eric Newman and Snyder, first as an original television series, before settling on a film by Netflix.[7]
Casting[edit]
On November 2, 2021, it was announced that Sofia Boutella had been cast in the film, in the lead role.[21] On February 9, 2022, Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Ray Fisher, Jena Malone, Staz Nair and Doona Bae joined the cast. Later that month, Stuart Martin and Rupert Friend joined the project.[22][23]Fisher first became aware of the project around 2019 or 2020 back when Snyder planned it to be a TV show, being shown whiteboards and showing his interest when Snyder explained that those were for a "little space thing" he was working on.[24] On April 8, 2022, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman and Alfonso Herrera joined the cast.[25] On May 16, 2022, it was announced that Ed Skrein had replaced Friend as the film's main antagonist due to scheduling conflicts, with Cleopatra Coleman, Fra Fee and Rhian Rees joining the project.[26] On June 8, 2022, it was announced that Anthony Hopkins had joined the cast as the voice of Jimmy, an impossibly sentient JC1435 mechanized battle robot and one-time defender of the slain king.[27]
Filming[edit]
Filming commenced as of April 19, 2022,[28] with Snyder sharing the first images from the set on Twitter that day.[29] Snyder also served as cinematographer.[1] It ran until December 2,[30] with 152 days of filming taking place in California, to tap into $83 million in qualified spending and tax incentives.[31]
Post-production[edit]
On August 20, 2023, the titles for the two parts were reported to be A Child of Fire and The Scargiver, respectively.[32] Two days later, Zack Snyder appeared at gamescom opening night to present the teaser trailer for the two parts.[33] The trailer, which was also released online, confirmed that the first and second parts of Rebel Moon would be subtitled Part One: A Child of Fire and Part Two: The Scargiver, respectively.[34]
Music[edit]
In January 2023, Tom Holkenborg was revealed to be composing the score. Holkenborg has previously contributed to the score for the Snyder-directed Man of Steel (2013) and scored Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) alongside Hans Zimmer, in addition to scoring Zack Snyder's Justice League and Army of the Dead (both 2021) as well the Snyder-produced 300: Rise of an Empire (2014).[2]
Release[edit]
Rebel Moon had a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 15, 2023,[35] before its streaming debut on December 21, 2023, by Netflix.[36] Snyder revealed that the film will have an R-rated extended cut, set to release before The Scargiver, in addition to its original PG-13-rated cut.[37][38][11]
Critical reception[edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 23% of 94 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire proves Zack Snyder hasn't lost his visual flair, but eye candy isn't enough to offset a storyline made up of various sci-fi/fantasy tropes."[39] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 30 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.[40]
Variety writer Owen Gleiberman commented, "while eminently watchable, [Rebel Moon] is a movie built so entirely out of spare parts that it may, in the end, be for Snyder cultists only."[41] Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent gave the film 1/5 stars, calling it "a film populated by some of the Zack Snyder's Justice League filmmaker's worst impulses: a mess of imagery, some of it attempting to shock, congregated largely around the idea of what might look good in a trailer."[42] The Guardian's Charles Bramesco also gave the film 1/5 stars, writing, "the finished product has only the vaguest contours of ambition, diminished by a half-assedness dinkifying the latest CGI-jammed saga to decide the fate of the universe."[43]
Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave the film 2/5 stars, noting its similarities to Star Wars and saying that "this first half of Snyder's diptych... is more of a loosely doodled mood board than a functioning film – a series of pulpy tableaux that mostly sound fun in isolation, but become numbingly dull when run side by side."[44] The Messenger's Jordan Hoffman gave it a score of 4/10, writing, "As a space opera, it has none of the weight of Dune, none of the characterizations of Guardians of the Galaxy, none of the madness of Jupiter Ascending or The Fifth Element and none of the pep of Star Wars."[45]
Fred Topel of United Press International was more positive, calling the film "an entertaining filtering of science fiction and general storytelling tropes through the lens of creator/director Zack Snyder."[46] The South China Morning Post's Daniel Eagan gave it 3.5/5 stars, writing, "What Snyder brings to the project is a sensational world-building vision and a muscular filmmaking style that can pummel viewers into submission."[47]
Future[edit]
Sequels[edit]
In February 2022, it was revealed that Rebel Moon would be a franchise that begins with a two-part film; each part planned to be shot back-to-back.[17]By August of the same year, the follow-up was officially confirmed with the title Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, and scheduled for release on April 19, 2024.[48][34] In April 2023, it was revealed that the first part was planned to be the beginning of a trilogy.[49]
In November 2023, Snyder confirmed that developments for additional installments are ongoing, while stating that he intends for a "trilogy of sequels" to be released.[50] The filmmaker confirmed the following month that he was working on the script for a third feature film.[51][52]
Other media[edit]
In July 2021, Snyder stated that his intent is for Rebel Moon to become "a massive IP and a universe that can be built out."[7] In March 2023, Snyder revealed that a role-playing video game based on Rebel Moon was in development, alongside an animated short and a graphic novel.[53][54] A novelization of the film written by V. Castro will be published by Titan Books on December 26, 2023.[55] In July 2023, Snyder revealed that he had plans for a TV series focusing on Balisarius.[56] In August 2023, Snyder announced at Gamescom that Super Evil Megacorp was developing a four-player co-op action game that would be exclusively available on the Netflix Games platform.[57] In September 2023, Evil Genius Games sued Netflix for terminating a deal that allowed them to produce a tabletop role-playing game set in the Rebel Moon universe.[58]
A four-issue prequel comic entitled Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe by writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Clark Bint will be published by Titan Comics in January 2024.[59] Set five years before the events of the film, the comic depicts backstory for the characters of Devra and Darrian Bloodaxe, leaders of a band of outlaw revolutionaries. In November 2023, a narrative-podcast, an animated comic book, and an animated series were announced to be in development with each project taking place chronologically before the feature films.[60] The animated short is set to tell the story of the Kali, the "shadowy figures" who power the Motherworld's "most dangerous technology".[12]
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