Director Zack Snyder is a man of many words — or, at least, a filmmaker who tends to err on the side of longer runtimes.
As someone who required director’s cuts to tell both “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Justice League” to completion without compromise, fans shouldn’t have been surprised to hear that his next original story would end up requiring more than one movie to tell.”Rebel Moon,” Snyder’s epic space opera that is already confirmed for an R-rated extended cut, has all the makings of a bona fide franchise-starter.
We knew that the film had ended up lengthy enough that it required the decision to be split into two separate installments, largely because Netflix’s internal metrics strongly suggest that viewers tune out of any movie longer than 120 minutes.
But what we didn’t realize was that Snyder had already set up a natural way for the story to continue,…
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