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Rebel Moon is a Star Wars rip-off that dares to break George Lucas’s unwritten rule

Source: Netflix

Rwasn’t always a brazenly obvious . At one point, it was the real McCoy. sci-fi thriller (the second part of which, , debuted on Netflix on Friday) was originally conceived as an official entry in the Star Wars canon. Shortly after the land rights to George Lucas’s galaxy far, far away were hoovered up by Disney in 2012, Snyder tried pitching them his premise: the story of a modest farming community who fight back against imperial invaders. The filmmaker’s idea was turned down, as were

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