Zack Snyder Says Making Rebel Moon Part 1 and 2 Back to Back Was a 'Very Exhausting, Long Process,' Still Waiting to See How to Move Forward With the Franchise, 'If at All'

Zack Snyder has confirmed he's taking a interruption from Rebel Moon to enactment connected different projects.

Star Wars-style sci-fi movie Rebel Moon launched connected Netflix successful December 2023 amid overmuch hype. It's acceptable successful a postulation ruled by the imperialistic Motherworld, whose military, the Imperium, threatens a colony connected the satellite Veldt. As the titles suggest, a set of rebels fights back.

While Netflix had precocious hopes for Rebel Moon, critics panned the film. IGN's Rebel Moon reappraisal returned a 4/10. We said: "Zack Snyder's abstraction opera is fto down by a derivative patchwork script, mediocre enactment sequences and a superficial story."

Sequel Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver followed successful April 2024, and it met with a akin reception. IGN's Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver reappraisal was different 4/10. "The 2nd portion of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon abstraction opera, The Scargiver, delivers a half-baked decision to a well-trodden communicative with flimsy quality studies and lacklustre action." R-rated director's cuts of some Rebel Moon 1 and 2 followed successful 2024 and met with a much affirmative reception.

“I got sidetracked into this — not sidetracked, it’s each uptown problems, arsenic they accidental — for Netflix, I’m moving connected an LAPD SWAT movie,” Snyder told Variety successful a caller interview. “So I was like, OK, well, I’m gonna conscionable benignant of fto that Rebel Moon satellite boil for a minute, and I’m gonna spell bash this.”

The Man of Steel writer and director, who is possibly champion known for his enactment connected the present rebooted DC Universe, besides highlighted the analyzable quality of moving connected 2 projects simultaneously.

“Frankly, it was a precise exhausting, agelong process doing the 2 movies together. So it was bully to person a spot of a interruption from it,” helium explained. “I emotion it similar crazy, but it’s bully to person a spot of a break. So yeah, we’ll spot aft I decorativeness this, erstwhile I travel back, wherever we are with everything.”

As acold arsenic much stories oregon adjacent much movie adaptations specifically being planned successful the Rebel Moon universe, Snyder was mostly tightlipped astir immoderate confirmations. ​​“There’s tons of stories. So, I mean, I deliberation it’s literally, it’s endless,” helium said. “But, again, similar I say, I’m waiting to spot however we privation to and successful what mode we would determination forward, if astatine all.”

But it’s wide Snyder does consciousness similar the possibilities for Rebel Moon are endless — due to the fact that we present person a video crippled spinoff acceptable successful the beingness to spell on with the series, called Blood Line.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.