Rebel Moon Trivia | 40 facts about the movie

Rebel Moon is an upcoming American epic space opera film directed by Zack Snyder.

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1. Rebel Moon (also known as Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire) is an upcoming American epic space opera film directed by Zack Snyder.
2. Zack Snyder cowrote the screenplay with Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten, based on a story Snyder also created.
3. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Cleopatra Coleman, Jena Malone, Fra Fee, Ed Skrein, and Anthony Hopkins.
4. Rebel Moon is scheduled for a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 15, 2023, before its streaming debut on December 22, 2023, by Netflix.
5. A sequel, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, is set to be released on April 19, 2024.
6. Zack Snyder wrote a script for a Star Wars spin-off movie taking place away from the established Skywalker storyline.
7. Once Lucasfilm was sold to Disney, the project was shelved. Since then, Snyder has been reworking the script to be an original sci-if story unrelated to Star Wars entirely. After the success of Army of the Dead (2021), Netflix gave Snyder the green light to make the movie.
8. The story is majorly influenced by Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954), which is Zack Snyder’s favorite movie.
9. Zack Snyder’s second fully-digitally shot film after Army of the Dead.
10. The rest of his films are shot on 35mm or 65mm film. This is likely due to the partnership with Netflix, which has a long-standing rule to deliver in UHD.
11. Innitially the film expected to be released in theaters on November before arriving on Netflix on December 22, following the successful records of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) however, it was quietly scrapped from release and would instead go to Maestro (2023).
12. This is the first time Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman have worked together since Huisman replaced Skrein as Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones (2011).
13. This is the third collaboration of Jena Malone and Zack Snyder after Sucker Punch (2011) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).
14. This is the first half of a two-movie story, like how Denis Villienueve split the first Dune book into two movies.
15. This is the first Zack Snyder film to be shot in 2.39:1 aspect ratio since Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).
16. Rupert Friend was originally cast in the role of Balisarius, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) and Ed Skrein was later cast in the role.
17. Ray Fisher and Cary Elwes both starred in a Justice League movie, Fisher was Cyborg in both versions of Zack Snyder’s Justice League movie, and Elwes voiced Aquaman in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013).
18. This is Charlie Hunnam and Djimon Hounsou’s first movie together since King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017).
19. This is the first time Sir Anthony Hopkins and Cary Elwes starred in a movie together since Bram Stokers Dracula (1992).
20. This is Djimon Hounsou and Corey Stoll’s first movie together since Push (2009).
21. Sofia Boutella and Jena Malone had worked on a Michael Jackson music video, Boutella was the lead in Michael Jackson: Hollywood Tonight (2011) and Malone was in Michael Jackson: Childhood (1995).
22. Zack Snyder and Cary Elwes both worked on a James Wan movie, Snyder produced Aquaman (2018), and Elwes starred in Saw (2004).
23. This is Corey Stoll’s first Netflix project since season 1 of House of Cards (2013).
24. This is Fra Fee’s first Netflix movie since Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022).
25. The film’s logo is a homage to the adult science fiction and fantasy anthology.
26. Filming commenced as of April 19, 2022.
27. Zack Snyder shared the first images from the set on Twitter that day.
28. Zack Snyder also served as cinematographer.
29. It ran until December 2.
30. 152 days of filming took place in California, to tap into $83 million in qualified spending and tax incentives.
31. In August 22, 2023, Zack Snyder appeared at gamescom opening night to present the teaser trailer of the two parts.
32. The teaser trailer, which was also released online, revealed that the first and second parts of Rebel Moon would be subtitled Part One: A Child of Fire and Part Two: The Scargiver, respectively.
33. In January 2023, Tom Holkenborg was revealed to be composing the score. Holkenborg has previously contributed to the score for the Snyder-directed Man of Steel (2013) and scored Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) and Army of the Dead (2021), and the Snyder-produced 300: Rise of an Empire (2014).
34. In March 2023, Snyder revealed that a role-playing video game based on Rebel Moon was in development, alongside an animated short and a graphic novel.
35. A novelization of the film written by V. Castro will be published by Titan Books on December 26, 2023. In July 2023, Snyder revealed that he had plans for a TV series focusing on Balisarius.
36. In August 2023, Snyder announced at Gamescom that Super Evil Megacorp was developing a four-player co-op action game that would be exclusively available on the Netflix Games platform.
37. In September 2023, Evil Genius Games sued Netflix for terminating a deal allowing them to produce a tabletop role-playing game set in the Rebel Moon universe.
38. A four-issue prequel comic titled Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe by writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Clark Bint will be published by Titan Comics in January 2024.
39. Set five years before the events of the film, the comic depicts backstory for the characters of Devra and Darrian Bloodaxe, leaders of a band of outlaw revolutionaries.
40. In November 2023, a narrative podcast, an animated comic book and an animated series all set before the films were announced to be in the works.