Zack Snyder Can’t Let ‘Rebel Moon’ Die

RememberRebel Moon? Netflix’stwo-part movie seriescreated by Zack Snyder, released in late 2023and early 2024, which then hadtwo longer, bloodier versionsreleased that same year?Snyder’s answer toStar 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 releasedBlood Line, a co-op campaign action game set in theRebel Moonuniverse. 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 toldVariety. “So I was like, ‘Okay, well, I’m gonna just sort of let thatRebel Moonworld 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 maybeRebel Moonlater. 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 maybeRebel 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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