It’s been two years since Zack Snyder delivered Army of the Dead, his first Netflix movie, to the public, and while he was involved with the making of the zombie heist picture’s prequel, Army of Thieves, the end of 2023 will see his next directorial effort for the streamer released. Rebel Moon is the first of a multi-chaptered space opera saga that Snyder has lined up for Netflix subscribers, but originally the filmmaker intended for this story to be a Star Wars movie. Now the filmmaker has explained why Rebel Moon transitioned from a galaxy far, far away into its own universe.
When Snyder pitched his Star Wars idea to Lucasfilm, he was in postproduction on Man of Steel, and Disney had recently purchased the production company from George Lucas for a little over $4 billion. Though Snyder’s Star Wars movie was inspired by a classic film that inspired Lucas’ work on 1977’s Star Wars, a.k.a. A New Hope, it soon became clear what the man who helmed the first DCEU movie had thought up would be too adult for this particular franchise. As Snyder recalled to Empire:
