It’s not Star Wars, but the first full teaser trailer for Zack Snyder’s new sci-fi film, Rebel Moon, definitely looks Star Wars-adjacent.
In the early 1980s, one of the first responses to Star Wars was a legion of low-budget imitators, including the Roger Corman-produced film Battle Beyond the Stars. Director Zack Snyder has made no secret of the fact that Rebel Moon was originally his pitch for a Star Wars movie before Disney purchased Lucasfilm. And the early story elements from this film also seemed to lift some of the plot from Battle Beyond the Stars. But now that the first teaser trailer for the flick has arrived, it’s showing even more Star Wars influence than we expected, including a look at glowing blue and red swords that shamelessly resemble lightsabers.
Going from the trailer alone, it would be very difficult to decipher what this movie is going to be about.
