Zack Snyder first watched Star Wars at the impressionable age of 11 and, based on Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire, the first film of his new two-part science-fiction fantasy, it looks as though, five decades later, he has finally got to make his own version.
Just like Star Wars, Rebel Moon is a tale of a small group of plucky freedom fighters waging war in space against a rapacious imperium. In addition to its near facsimiles of Star Wars' Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire, Snyder’s movie even has its equivalents of the Death Star and the Millennium Falcon, C-3PO, and the Mos Eisley cantina.
