Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon saga drags on with Scargiver trailer
Netflix's Rebel Moon—Part Two: Scargiver trailer reminds us that Part 1 somehow gets a sequel that releases in April
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Say what you will about Zack Snyder, the man loves to craft multiple movies out of a single idea, whether 300 or Army Of The Dead. The latest victim is Netflix’s Rebel Moon, his critically panned 2023 space saga that somehow snagged a continuation—even if the director’s math of millions of people watching part one isn’t necessarily accurate. Think of it as his own little SnyderVerse because Rebel Moon—Part Two: Scargiver is almost here.
As a refresher, because everyone needs it even if the movie dropped only four months ago, Rebel Moon is set in a fictional galaxy ruled by—wait for it—The Motherworld. Their imperialistic military, the Imperium, endangers a peaceful farming colony on the moon Veldt. A former soldier, Kora (Sofia Boutella), decides to fight back. She goes on a quest to recruit warriors from around the cosmos to form a team. In Scargiver, the crew prepares for war and sacrifices for Veldt, which becomes a safe space for those with nowhere else to go. Whew.
The trailer is Peak Snyder, so there are intense fight scenes, an epic scope, and a shit ton of CGI. As for what’s happening narratively, it’s hard to decipher, but the villainous Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) reminds us more than once that Kora is the titular Scargiver, and he’s ready to combat with her to win.
Alright, another thing to say about Snyder is the director sure knows how to assemble a stacked cast. Scargiver also features Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Michael Huisman, Cary Elwes, Charlie Hunnam, Corey Stoll, Staz Nair, and Anthony Hopkins. As with part one, Snyder co-wrote the script with Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten.
It’s TBD if the team will still unleash the three-hour cut of Rebel Moon, but they have plans to grow the franchise further. Snyder told The Hollywood Reporter in November 2023 that he expects to work on a graphic novel, a podcast, and a photo book before eventually getting to a third film. If he has his way, he’ll turn it into a “trilogy of sequels,” whatever that means.
For now, Rebel Moon—Part Two: Scargiver arrives on Netflix on April 19.
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I’m wondering to what degree we can just copy-paste all the discourse from the first movie and save ourselves a lot of time and effort.
You could copy-paste every conversation about Zack Snyder since 2005 and it would work.
I keep mentally adding an “e” to the title and thinking it’s a movie about a creepy hospice worker.
Hellen Killer: The Scaracle Worker.
IF I watch part 2 it will only be to see how bad it really is and hopefully on a device that I can watch this inevitable train wreck on 2X speed.
Yes, or, hear me out, simply don’t bother.
YAY SPACEWARFIGHTERZ!Wait…not “YAY,” the other thing.
“I’m 12 and I’m worldbuilding an epic sci-fi IP” energy
Maybe this one will have LASER rape in it!
It’s important that the Mature and Adult Themes look SUPER RAD.
🤞
The first one already had an attempted Laser gang rape.
Ahahaha! I used to attempt to wordbuild embarrassing “epic” Star Wars knock offs like this when I was 12. I wish netflix existed in 1997, cuz I could’ve pitched this movie back in seventh grade, and it would’ve been just as good as Rebel Moon. (BTW my epic IP was called “Omega Odyssey” xD)
M-O-O-N that spells Grimdark Star Wars!
this franchise could definitely use a Trash Can Man
Matt Frewer makes everything better!
One of the reasons the modern AV Club increasingly reads like AI is the misuse of sentence structures like this:“Say what you will about Zack Snyder, the man loves to craft multiple movies out of a single idea, whether 300 or Army Of The Dead.”The phrase “say what you will” is supposed to precede a positive thing about a controversial figure, not just a fact about them. So, you can write, “Say what you will about Mel Gibson, Apocalypto was awesome.” It makes no sense to write, “Say what you will about Mel Gibson, he was born January 3, 1956.”
on some level, this is probably because editing is no longer a thing at any of the Kinja outlets. most of these pieces seem to get a single look over before the author hits “publish,” as anything else would slow down the churn of content. the writing itself hardly seems to matter anyway, as all anybody needs to do is put “Zach Snyder” in the title and people will click to come make the same complaints they made on the last piece that said “Zach Snyder”.
They have no money to pay for an editor. Let alone multiple of them.
and that’s been the case for a long time now. it’s a systemic issue that will persist until the whole network is sold off and dismembered for parts.
i find it helps to remember the staff on these sites are writers second (or third, or fourth), and creators of content first.
The writing used to be better in the 2000s up until somewhere in the early 2010s. Hey, Deadspin is gone now, huh?
…and we all still read them because…what else is there on the internet for free?
Yeah all these posts reek of “first draft” more than they do AI. It’s clear that even the most cursory of copyediting is not happening at all. Awkward turns of phrase like this, names misspelled multiple different ways within the same post, etc. It’s just stream-of-conscious typing and hit PUBLISH, no other steps.
I think it increasingly reads like AI as, at last, some of the sentences do make sense.
I’m not even sure what that sentence is trying to convey. That the man sometimes does sequels?
I read it four times and still don’t understand it
People called Romanes they go the sequel?
“That the man sometimes does sequels?”And then listing two sequels that he didn’t even make.
“Say what you will about AV Club, but they sure are shitty now”Wait, I dun goofed
Say what you will about Hitler, at least he killed Hitler.
For me it was:“…Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) reminds us more than once that Kora is the titular Scargiver, and he’s ready to combat with her to win.”To combat? Only Bruce Lee and AIs use “combat” as a perfect 1:1 synonym with “fight”, and that kinda narrows it down. No one, anywhere, writes a sentence like “ready to combat with ___” without thinking it sounds stilted.
lmao
the villainous Atticus Noble I chuckled. He’s at least got the ridiculous name aspect of Star Wars down.
They’re all so bad, the people and place names both. It’s weirdly impressive.
This one’s actually funnier than most Star Wars names because you can like trace his thought process. He definitely caught part of To Kill a Mockingbird and thought “Atticus finch is so noble!” and then thought it’d be some kinda clever subversion to call his over the top evil bad guy Atticus Noble.
Aided by villainous exotic dancer Boobs Radley
“Say what you will about Zack Snyder, the man loves to craft multiple movies out of a single idea, whether 300 or Army Of The Dead. The latest victim is Netflix’s Rebel Moon, his critically panned 2023 space saga that somehow snagged a continuation”1) He made one 300 movie. There WAS a sequel, but he didn’t make it, AND it was based on an already-existing sequel made by Miler.2) Rebel Moon didn’t “somehow” get a continuation, the continuation was already in the can before the first part was released.What a fucking joke this place is.
He who controls the color palette controls the universe…
lolololololol as if Ray “Cyborg” Fisher is in this. I’m crying in laughter.
well, now we have an old boy knock off hallway fight…. Oldboy was 2003, maybe Zack will catch up
“Scargiver.” “Scargiver.”“SCARGIVER.” i………
“This April, it is better to scargive than to scarreceive!”
ugh, watched the first one out of curiosity but no way am i watching part 2
The best part is how the fights all have a perfect, constant beat to everything, where you can practically hear the actors going “and one, two, three” in their heads with every move.
It looks more like a choreographed dance, than a fight, both parties agreed on set moves, so you punch here, I step there. You can feel their anticipation of the next move. I get that, this is how it is done in every movie, but the good fights feel real, chaotic, violent, this one is just square dancing
Can we stop giving Snyder the credit of an “epic scope”? You have to back up visual scale with at least some sense of characters progressing on a journey.