Rebel Moon producers Deborah Snyder and Eric Newman say the team was happy when the film was initially booted from the Star Wars universe.
"Once, it was a Star Wars film, and I never wanted it to be," Deborah Snyder said during a press conference (via /Film). "I remember, I said to Zack, 'I just feel like your hands are going to be tied so much in what that IP is, even though it kind of lived outside of it.' So I was kind of happy when that fell apart, because I always felt like it was better. We learned so much with all our years working with the superheroes and creating those worlds, and to do something now that’s wholly original… we say it’s a science fantasy more than science fiction, and to take all those skills that Zack has been honing, and to do something in this space, just seemed really exciting."
