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Zack Snyder has revealed new details about his Netflix sci-fi movie ‘Rebel Moon’. He compared the scale of the new project to ‘Man of Steel’, citing that it was “on the biggest steroids I can give it,” reports Collider.
The Krypton scenes in ‘Man of Steel’ begin the movie, ending with the destruction of the planet and young Kal-El’s, aka Superman’s, journey to Earth. Synder hopes to top this sequence with a “romantic sci-fi film on a scale that is just frankly as big as you can make a movie.” Hopefully, the planets in Rebel Moon won’t meet the same end as Krypton.
Rebel Moon has set production in California with no word yet on a release date. The film was originally pitched to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars film before the Disney acquisition. Snyder announced in July that he would be reworking the film for Netflix. He will be working with past collaborators Kurt Johnstad, 300 co-writer, and Shay Hatten, the screenwriter of his latest film Army of the Dead.
The film will be a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Remaking Kurosawa’s films, and particularly Seven Samurai, is nothing new for Hollywood. Seven Samurai was most famously adapted as the classic western film The Magnificent Seven by John Sturges. However, there is also a significant relationship between Star Wars and Kurosawa. George Lucas has said that Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress in part inspired A New Hope, and Seven Samurai itself inspired elements of Rogue One and The Mandalorian’s season one episode “Sanctuary.” Snyder is sure to have an interesting take on Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, though many details have not yet been released.
