Zack Snyder dropped the first official trailer for Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire during Netflix’s Geeked Week 2023. The three-minute trailer focuses on Sofia Boutella as Kora, a former soldier who is called upon to gather fighters to take on the Motherworld.
Director Zack Snyder (300, Army of the Dead) co-wrote the screenplay with Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten. Snyder also serves as a producer along with his wife, Deborah, and Eric Newman and Wesley Coller. Johnstad, Hatten, Bergen Swanson, and Sarah Bowen executive produce.
During a Geeked Week Q&A, Snyder discussed creating the world of Rebel Moon.
“When you’re starting to create canon, you’ve got to be careful not to paint yourself into a corner that you are like, ‘Oh geez, I wish the character could do that, but I guess I can’t now because I’ve set them up in this way.’ So, a lot of the work that Shay and I and Kurt have done in creating the worlds is to make sure that we have our eye on the long look,” explained Snyder.
In addition to Sofia Boutella, the Rebel Moon ensemble includes Ed Skrein as Admiral Atticus Noble, a nefarious Imperium enforcer; Charlie Hunnam as Kai, a mercenary pilot whose Tawau-Class freighter will prove invaluable to Kora’s quest; Michiel Huisman as Gunnar, a Veldt farmer who knows little of the galaxy outside of his small, quiet corner of the galaxy; and Djimon Hounsou as General Titus, a hardened gladiator who once served the Imperium.
Staz Nair is Tarak, a noble indentured servant who shares a bond with a flying creature called a Bennu; Donna Bae plays Nemesis, a cyborg sword master whose mechanical hands allow her to wield molten-metal weapons; Ray Fisher is Darrian Bloodaxe, an insurgent who has been harrying the Imperium with guerilla attacks; and E. Duffy as Milius, a refugee who seeks justice for their home — a colony that has already fallen to the Mother World.
Additionally, Fra Fee is Regent Balisarius, the mighty Imperium official — and Noble’s superior — who presides over Veldt’s corner of the universe; Jena Malone is a mysterious and deadly spider-being; and Anthony Hopkins voices Jimmy, an ancient robot knight that once defended a slain king but has now faded into a more peaceful existence.
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire premieres on Netflix on December 22, 2023. Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver follows on April 19, 2024.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
“After crash landing on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe, Kora (Boutella), a stranger with a mysterious past, begins a new life among a peaceful settlement of farmers. But she soon becomes their only hope for survival when the tyrannical Regent Balisarius (Fee) and his cruel emissary, Admiral Noble (Skrein), discover the farmers have unwittingly sold their crops to the Bloodaxes (Coleman and Fisher) — leaders of a fierce group of insurgents hunted by the Motherworld.
Tasked with finding fighters who would risk their lives to defend the people of Veldt, Kora and Gunnar (Huisman), a tenderhearted farmer naive in the realities of war, journey to different worlds in search of the Bloodaxes, and assemble a small band of warriors who share a common need for redemption along the way: Kai (Hunnam), a pilot and gun for hire; General Titus (Hounsou), a legendary commander; Nemesis (Bae), a master swordswoman; Tarak (Nair), a captive with a regal past; and Milius (Duffy), a resistance fighter.
Back on Veldt, Jimmy (voiced by Anthony Hopkins), an ancient mechanized protector hiding in the wings, awakens with a new purpose. But the newly formed revolutionaries must learn to trust each other and fight as one before the armies of the Motherworld come to destroy them all.”
