As prolific as it’s become in recent years, the Star Wars franchise rarely takes big creative swings. We learned this the hard way with word of Guillermo Del Toro’s now-shelved Jabba the Hutt movie, and the conversation feels increasingly inescapable as Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon creeps closer to its December release. The two-part space epic was originally pitched as a unique chapter of Star Wars’ ever-expanding story, but once Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, Snyder had to explore that world in a universe of his own making.
