Inspired by Kurosawa and Star Wars, Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic Rebel Moon is coming to Netflix.
Following almost immediately after the 2012 sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, Hollywood was flooded with Star Wars-related pitches from the industry’s leading writers and filmmakers – all of whom wanted to take the expansive franchise in bold new directions. Zack Snyder, however, had his own Star Wars pitch that predated the sale – one which promised a «more mature» Star Wars story that was heavily inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece, Seven Samurai. There was even talk of turning his idea into a series. While that pitch regrettably failed to move forward following Disney’s acquisition of the franchise, it appears that we will finally get to see what Snyder had in mind all those years ago. In an exclusive announcement via The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder has revealed that his Star Wars pitch has been reworked into Rebel Moon, an original sci-fi adventure film that he will co-write and direct for Netflix. Set in an entirely different galaxy that’s also far, far away, Rebel Moon’s story kicks off when «a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius.
