The heroine is Kora (Sofia Boutella), a soldier who has defected from the Realm, and who now works alongside Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) in a farming village on the moon of Veldt, and definitely not Tatooine. He is the right-hand man of the Regent (Fra Fee), and definitely not the Emperor a mystical tyrant who rules over the Realm, and definitely not the Empire. The main baddie is the jackbooted Admiral Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein), and definitely not Darth Vader. The goodies are straightforward goodies, and the baddies are straightforward baddies, and you can usually tell which is which by how attractive they are. It's certainly not more complex in its world-building or sophisticated in its themes. The idea seems to be that Rebel Moon is more "adult" than the Star Wars canon, but what that means is that it's more adolescent. There are more lens flares, more slow-motion action sequences, more shades of brown in the murky colour palette, and a lot more clumsy, expository speeches. Rebel Moon is recognisably the work of the man who directed 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel and Justice League, and so, compared to the authorised Star Wars films, it has more blood, more swearing, more semi-nudity and more threats of sexual assault. Not that Snyder hasn't made a few changes. Blending futuristic science fiction with medieval fantasy, the film is full of robots, bounty hunters, grimy spaceports and massed ranks of uniformed troops that all look suspiciously familiar. Ten years ago, Snyder pitched the concept to Lucasfilm as an official Star Wars project, and when the company turned him down, he rejigged it so that it would have its own separate mythology. But it's clear that he hasn't developed it much since then, because, in the intervening 46 years, all he's come up with is a single question: "What if Star Wars was crossed with Kurosawa's Seven Samurai?" There is nothing to Rebel Moon beyond that. ![]() In fact, Snyder has said that he started dreaming up the film when he was an 11-year-old boy who had just seen Star Wars at the cinema. ![]() Wonka is 'relentlessly wacky' and 'over the top' The mercenary is named Kai, rather than Han Solo, but it's fair to say that Rebel Moon is set in a galaxy that isn't far, far away from the one in Star Wars. One of the ugly, pig-faced aliens there hassles the farmer, so the warrior uses some nifty fighting skills to defend him, and then they meet a roguish mercenary who agrees to take them off-planet aboard his spaceship. There's a scene early on in Zack Snyder's new space opera, Rebel Moon (or, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, to use its full title), in which an innocent farmer goes to a seedy cantina with a mysterious warrior in a hooded cloak.
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