Zack Snyder Can’t Let ‘Rebel Moon’ Die

Remember Rebel Moon? Netflix’s two-part movie series created by Zack Snyder, released in late 2023 and early 2024, which then had two longer, bloodier versions released that same year? Snyder’s answer to Star Wars, in which he created his own sci-fi world from the ground up? Ring a bell? If not, that’s because they did well on the streamer but didn’t quite resonate culturally like most probably hoped. Nevertheless, it seems Snyder isn’t ready to give up on the franchise just yet.

Case in point, Netflix just released Blood Line, a co-op campaign action game set in the Rebel Moon universe. More importantly, though, Snyder is leaving the door open to make more movies. “I got sidetracked into this—not sidetracked, it’s all uptown problems, as they say—for Netflix, I’m working on an LAPD SWAT movie,” Snyder told Variety. “So I was like, ‘Okay, well, I’m gonna just sort of let that Rebel Moon world boil for a minute, and I’m gonna go do this.’ And frankly, it was a very exhausting, long process doing the two movies together. So it was nice to have a bit of a break from it. I love it like crazy, but it’s nice to have a bit of a break. So yeah, we’ll see after I finish this, when I come back, where we are with everything.”

So it seems like a cop movie now, and maybe Rebel Moon later. Maybe. As for what it would be about, Snyder said it could be anything. “There’s tons of stories,” he said. “So, I mean, I think it’s literally, it’s endless. But, again, like I say, I’m waiting to see how we want to and in what way we would move forward, if at all.”

“If at all” obviously makes it seem like maybe Rebel Moon is dead but, also, not. Personally, I think it was admirable that Snyder took such a big swing with the two, turned into four, sci-fi epics, but, frankly, they stunk. Do something else. Let it go. We just aren’t sure he can.

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