Whether it be superheroes fighting each other or their archenemies, travelling to ancient Sparta to recreate legendary military feats, entering the mind of a psychiatric patient, or a zombie outbreak, Zack Snyder has a developed a distinct visual style that gets transported to outer space with the release of Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire. Despite the obvious narrative callbacks to Seven Samurai and Star Wars, aesthetically Days of Heaven was a major influence along with the sheer imagination of Snyder, which had to be translated by production designers Stephen Swain and Stefan Dechant.
“There's another designer no one is mentioning, and that's Zack,” says Dechant. “Zack does all of the storyboards. It's his world and he's laying it out. I came in only 10 weeks out, so had to get my cues from Zack. He had a couple of key images that he had pulled for the Motherworld and would say, ‘It has this steampunk vibe and Gothic sensibility.’
