The first trailer for Rebel Moon: The Scargiver quietly dropped on Christmas Day, however even with 1 million views and counting, it’s unclear if Netflix obtained a prized reward in its stocking or lump of coal.
Rebel Moon is at the moment the #1 film on Netflix (accounting for 23.9M views as of first six days on the platform, in keeping with the now barely clear firm). It’s additionally a blemish on director Zack Snyder’s monitor document; While he’s not sometimes a essential darling, the fantasy house opera has garnered a few of the sourest opinions of his profession, hovering between Sucker Punch and Justice League (the primary try) on the Rotten Tomatoes evaluation aggregator. Is there hope for the Rebel Moon universe?
Netflix has to hope so — not solely does the streamer have a Rebel Moon sequel, The Scargiver, locked and loaded for spring 2024, there’s clear hope for a higher enlargement of the universe into different properties. At the very least, we’re getting an R-rated reduce of the primary movie, Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire, and a four-player co-op Rebel Moon online game from Super Evil Megacorp… finally.
But whereas it’s onerous to think about “course correction” for the budding franchise — it’s Snyder’s child by way of and thru — the primary trailer for Rebel Moon: The Scargiver might see enchancment. A Child of Fire promised a Seven Samurai-esque staff film with a climactic battle of underdogs versus imperial scum… with out really delivering the climactic battle. With the muscle now in place, The Scargiver looks like a 3rd act of the unique pitch damaged out right into a sequel. If it’s all slo-mo motion and reference-heavy iconography swirling round in a cloud of motion, it is likely to be what Snyder was envisioning all alongside? At the very least, we’re getting much more Djimon Hounsou, which is an effective signal.
Rebel Moon: The Scargiver will premiere on Netflix on April 19, 2024. And both earlier than or after that, we’re getting the rated-R cuts of 1 or each of the films, which is likely to be value holding out for. At the very least, Snyder says they happen in a “different dimension” than the PG-13 motion pictures, so there’s that.
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