A LONG TIME AGO – 1980 to be precise – a generation of cinemagoers walked out of The Empire Strikes Back knowing they’d have to wait years to learn the truth about Luke Skywalker and his absent dad.
Fast-forward to our current era of instant gratification, however, and space opera cliffhangers are being resolved in a matter of parsecs. And so Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver, the second half of Zack Snyder’s interstellar riff on The Seven Samurai, lands on Netflix mere months after its predecessor A Child Of Fire made its heavily publicised debut in December.
“My initial idea was to actually have them come out closer together, closer than Netflix did,” the writer/director tells SFX. “I wanted them out, like, a month apart, because I just felt like the idea was to strike while the iron is still hot, when more people remember [the first film], you know?”
“It’s really two parts of the same story we’re telling in these two movies,” adds Deborah Snyder, who’s been producing husband Zack’s movies since 2006’s 300. “It wasn’t realistic to put a four-hour movie on [Netflix], but to really give these characters their due, to tell the story, to have the action and have it be compelling, we needed that time. They’re not sequels, they’re parts, and that’s intentional. They’re meant to work together.”
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We’re assuming you haven’t forgotten in those few short months, but here’s a quick recap. Having tackled Spartan armies (), comic book heroes (, , ) and zombies , ), Snyder movie before George Lucas sold his empire to Disney.
