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Image: NetflixThere are both pluses and minuses to a movie debuting on Netflix, but one plus is that basically any and everyone will give it a shot. And since so many people did just that with the first Rebel Moon, you have to assume many will want to see where the story ends. Now you’ve got a new look.Watch a Clip from Jennifer Reeder's Feminist Horror Noir PerpetratorZack Snyder just released the latest full trailer for Rebel Moon- Part Two: The Scargiver, which picks up the story from Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of…

Fans of Game of Thrones will remember that a key character, hunky sellsword Daario Naharis, looked rather different in season four after debuting in season three—and now the two actors who played him, Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman, are sharing the screen in Zack Snyder’s new Netflix film Rebel Moon.Spoilers of the Week Feb 14-18Actors replacing other actors in established roles isn’t unheard-of in Hollywood; aside from maybe the most famous example (Bewitched, obviously), Prime Video’s Wheel of Time just did it, swapping…

No matter how you felt about the first part of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, odds are you’re curious about what happens next. Kora (Sofia Boutella) has assembled a team of heroic warriors and brought them back to Veldt. The evil Admiral Atticus (Ed Skrein) has a renewed purpose. And it all seems to be building to a showdown between Atticus’ armies of Motherworld and Kora’s heroes.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DThat’ll happen April 19 when Snyder and Netflix unleash Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver—and,…

Do you like Star Wars? How about Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Dune? What about The Matrix? Would you like to see elements of all of those and more in the skeleton of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai? If the answer to any of that is yes, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire is the movie for you.Rebel Moon is a cacophony of sci-fi tropes. Pieces are clipped from every inch of sci-fi history and put back together into one big package. Which, admittedly, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Every film you’ve ever…

Image: NetflixThe ambitious risk Netflix is taking on a Zack Snyder sci-fi franchise looks like it could be worth it, based on these damn good character posters presenting the sci-fi ensemble of Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire. Originally conceived as a Snyder original idea that pivoted to a Star Wars film and is now back to a space Snyderverse of his own, the Netflix two-partner has followed up its visual feast of a trailer with new character posters. The Rebel Moon Universe is led by Sofia Boutella as Kora, a…

Zack Snyder’s two-part movie Rebel Moon has always had a suitably epic cast, but we haven’t known much about the movie other than a group of heroes band together to try to protect the peaceful, agrarian moon colony of Veldt from the sinister, overwhelming forces of the Imperium. But now Netflix has revealed the characters who will take a doomed stand against tyranny—and the bastards who will try to take them down—in this Seven Samurai-inspired sci-fi saga, which releases its first installment in December. Zack Snyder’s…

In the early 2010s, not long after Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder met with Lucasfilm to pitch a stand-alone Star Wars movie to be directed by him. The partnership didn’t work out, but a decade later, Netflix embraced the idea with open arms, a sizable budget, and the option to turn Rebel Moon into two movies. But the bones of Star Wars, like the rusting remains of an AT-AT, still remain inside. The question is, how much does Snyder realize they’re still there?Spoilers of the Week | June 3rdIn a sprawling look at the…

Image: NetflixAlthough Zack Snyder first announced he would be making a science fiction epic Rebel Moon back in July of 2021, it feels like we’ve been waiting a lot longer—a lot—to actually see what the damn thing looks like. Thankfully, Netflix has rolled out a preview of what’s coming to the streaming service in 2023, and it includes the first look at the movie in action, emphasis on the action.If you know these Netflix preview compilations, you know they contain only the briefest smatterings of footage, but at least…