{"id":35516,"date":"2023-12-14T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/zack-snyder-creates-his-own-star-wars-with-rebel-moon\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:42:03","slug":"zack-snyder-creates-his-own-star-wars-with-rebel-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/zack-snyder-creates-his-own-star-wars-with-rebel-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Snyder creates his own &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; with &#8216;Rebel Moon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>If Zack Snyder\u2019s new Netflix sci-fi movie epic <em>\u2018Rebel Moon<\/em>\u2018 looks and feels a lot like a \u2018<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u2018 film, that\u2019s because it was originally pitched as one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From its humble villagers in a far-flung galaxy battling planet-destroying imperial overlords, to its superheated swords, and even its title, the similarities with George Lucas\u2019s creation are unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Rebel Moon | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rHLOXbFZtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>But when Zack Snyder\u2019s pitch to Lucasfilm a decade or so ago didn\u2019t work out, the director went ahead and created his own sprawling, mythology-packed universe instead \u2014 something that he now sees as a huge blessing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it turned out that that wasn\u2019t gonna work out, my wife and producing partner Deborah said to me, \u2018this is the best news that you possibly could have gotten,&#8217;\u201d recalled Zack Snyder. \u201cThe process of creating this world, though exhausting and very time consuming \u2014 and really the amount of detail is insane \u2014 has been incredibly rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director of \u2018<em>300<\/em>\u2018 and \u2018<em>Watchmen<\/em>\u2018 added, \u201cBecause it does give you the ability to deconstruct sci-fi icons and tropes that you\u2019re used to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result is perhaps the most audacious step yet in a wildly popular if divisive career that has seen Zack Snyder rework zombie classic \u2018<em>Dawn of the Dead<\/em>,\u2019 and radically overhaul beloved superheroes like Superman and Batman in films like \u2018<em>Man of Steel<\/em>\u2018 and \u2018<em>Justice League<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Rebel Moon<\/em>\u2018 is a rare, $160 million-plus gamble on something new, in an era when Hollywood increasingly depends on established brands and franchises \u2014 known as \u201cintellectual property,\u201d or \u201cIP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe double-edged sword of IP is that, on one hand, it\u2019s familiar, everybody knows what it is. On the other hand, it\u2019s familiar, everybody knows what it is,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Zack\u2019s new world\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Rebel Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire<\/em>\u2018 will be released on Netflix on December 22, with a second movie out in April.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhr3MzT6exg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>It follows Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger who crashes her spaceship in the furthest reaches of the universe, and finds herself defending the peaceful villagers who took her in from the tyrannical Imperium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cz4DGtUJcjB\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She and naive farmer Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) assemble a team of fighters, from die-hard insurgents, to a cocky mercenary (Charlie Hunnam) who owns a speedy spaceship and values his own safety and fortune over the fate of the rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>If some of those characters sound familiar, cast members insist that they are far, far away from a certain well-known galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone said the words \u2018Star\u2019 and \u2018Wars\u2019 on set. We never mentioned it,\u201d said Ed Skrein, who plays the villainous Admiral Atticus Noble.<\/p>\n<p>Zack Snyder devised detailed backstories for every character, planet and even the spaceships\u2019 machinery.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers created three unique languages for their universe\u2019s various cultures and creeds.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has already announced a companion video game, and a graphic novel and an animated film are also in the works. Zack Snyder hopes that the franchise can take on a sprawling life of its own, just as George Lucas once did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dream for it on one hand is to follow the story all the way. That\u2019s the main thing that drives me. I feel like there\u2019s a whole universe of comic books that I\u2019d like to create for this world. My hope is that it\u2019s an inexhaustible thing.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/viral-rebel-moon-part-one-a-child-of-fire-trailer-by-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018<em>Rebel Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire<\/em>\u2018 trailer shows jaw-dropping visuals, action scenes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Zack Snyder\u2019s new Netflix sci-fi movie epic \u2018Rebel Moon\u2018 looks and feels a lot like a \u2018Star Wars\u2018 film, that\u2019s because it was originally pitched as one. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv From its humble villagers in a far-flung galaxy battling planet-destroying imperial overlords, to its superheated swords, and even its title, the similarities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rebel-moon.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}