By Zack Snyder is continuing his expansion plans for the universe of his two-part sci-fi feature epic “Rebel Moon” that will go beyond the films.
The films follow a colony on the edge of the galaxy that is threatened by the armies of the tyrannical regent Belisarius (Ed Skrein). In a desperate attempt, the civilians send out a young woman (Sofia Boutella) to seek warriors from other planets to fight the tyrannical armies.
They star Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Michiel Huisman, Jena Malone, Cary Elwes, Ray Fisher, Corey Stoll, Alfonso Herrera, Cleopatra Coleman, Stuart Martin, Kingston Foster, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Fra Fee, Staz Nair and the voice of Anthony Hopkins.
Talking with Total Film this week, Snyder touched upon the tie-in elements to the films he’s working on. Already this year he teased a prequel graphic novel, animated short and role-playing video game. Now it seems there’s other elements as well:
I’m the gatekeeper for what’s possible. I’m the only one who knows where the whole story is going, and I do have it mapped all the way. We’re doing a narrative podcast, and an animated comic book, and an animated series. They all take place before the events of the movie. So you can start to understand the vastness of the mythology that we’ve been working on.”
An animated series based on a Netflix property wouldn’t be unprecedented – it already happened with “The Witcher” which got its own animated movie “The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf”.
Snyder himself saw his zombie heist movie “Army of the Dead” score a prequel with “Army of Thieves”. A lot however will depend upon how the audience responds to the movies.
The first of the two films, “Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire,” will be released on the service on December 22nd and is said to have a theatrical cut runtime of 133 minutes. “Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver” premieres in April.
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