Thread by @TheSpaceshipper

[New movie] Rebel Moon (Netflix)

Zack Snyder will direct, co-write (with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad, 300) and produce an epic sci-fi fantasy where a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. #TSSN

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Desperate people dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand.

Zack Snyder: “This is me growing up as an Akira Kurosawa fan, a Star Wars fan. It’s my love of sci-fi and a giant adventure."

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"My hope is that this also becomes a massive IP and a universe that can be built out.”
So Say Every Streaming Giant.

“I’ve been working on this on the side for so long, it’s pretty far along.”
The hope is to begin production in early 2022.

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hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Now those who follow me must be like "hey but he proposed to do a Star Wars in 2013". Yes, he had proposed to do a Star Wars in 2013. And it is this idea that will be recycled into a new IP.

"It was a more mature take (...) and didn’t move beyond any meaningful conversations".

"Rebel finds the germs of its origins in a Star Wars pitch the filmmaker had developed a decade ago. He began reworking the idea with Johnstad and really dove in at the same time as he began making Army of the Dead, bringing in that movie’s co-scribe, Shay Hatten."

His SW project was rumored for a decade, before being confirmed last month.
"At that time, there was no Star Wars. (...) It was right after they had done the prequels and before the sale [to Disney]. I just was like, 'You know what? I could fix that.'"
digitalspy.com/movies/a366371…

Now, back to 2013:
"He is in fact developing an as-yet-untitled Jedi epic loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai, with the ronin and katana being replaced by the Force-wielding knights and their iconic lightsaber."

Well, no. But...

vulture.com/2013/01/zack-s…

Back to June 2021:
"I've been working on it, just away from the Star Wars universe, just on my own, just as a sci-fi thing... It's still a sci-fi thing, it's the same story, now I'm letting Star Wars be Star Wars."

And Rebel Moon be Rebel Moon. Wait, no, not the 1995 game.

Or the book about the game.
I'm sure they know what they do.

What matters is that it will give me plenty of upcoming tweets. A new movie, maybe a new IP, it's always a good news.

What matters is that I have now 2 years to research Zack Snyder's ship design choices.

That's funny because it's exactly what I did this past week, working on the Snyderverse ships. It's fate.

(maybe because General Z*d is a d*ck?)

Yes, yes, Seven Samurai in space, Battle Beyond The Stars. But it's different, it's Zack Snyder. I'm not a big fan but it will be its own movie, for sure.

The only thing that matters is making Nell appear.