It’s no secret that Zack Snyder’s upcoming big-budget Netflix film “Rebel Moon” shares some DNA with “Star Wars.” Way back in 2013, outlets reported that the future “Justice League” filmmaker was already working on an idea for a “Star Wars” project in the vein of Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai.” By 2021, Lucasfilm had become firmly Disney-fied, and while some of its new “Star Wars” projects were great, Snyder’s wasn’t among them.
Instead, as he shared at the time, the idea — which he says never featured any familiar Star Wars characters in the first place — had spun off into an original sci-fi film.
That film, it turned out, was “Rebel Moon.”Despite the fact that “Rebel Moon” has surely gone through some changes in the decade since Snyder first began talking about his sci-fi epic, the final product will no doubt still garner “Star Wars” comparisons thanks to its origin story.
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