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Writer/director Zack Snyder always has ambitious plans for his movies, and when it comes to his brand new science-fiction space opera series “Rebel Moon,” the filmmaker’s thinking isn’t veering far off from the audacious. Just one day before the second installment’s release, “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver,” Snyder has said that he has plans for up to six ‘Rebel Moon’ movies.

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver has rocketed to the top of Netflix’s charts but has landed fewer viewers than its opening saga.

To quote Robert Downey Jr. in ‘Infinity War,’ “Your math is blowing my mind.” Last month, director Zack Snyder appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience (you can watch/listen below) to promote his latest film, “Rebel Moon: Part Two” (read our review).

Netflix will be out in force at France‘s Annecy International Animation Film Festival once again this June, after last year’s high-profile attendance with Nimona as well as teasers for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and Blue Eye Samurai.

Zack Snyder is revealing the reason behind his heavy use of slow motion in his Rebel Moon films.

Zack Snyder’s new Netflix film is out and it is receiving the worst reviews of the director’s career to date.Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver hit the streaming platform last Friday (April 19), the sequel to its 2023 predecessor.It stars Sofia Boutella as a former soldier who recruits warriors from neighbouring planets to fight back against the evil Imperium when her farming colony is threatened.On the reviews aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film is currently sitting on a 17 per cent rating, surpassing his previous low, which was the first Rebel Moon film at 21 per cent.Some of Snyder’s previous films, including his DC Extended Universe entries Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the original cut of Justice League, are all certified rotten on the site, at 56, 29 and 40 per cent respectively.His highest-rated directorial project to date is his 2004 debut Dawn of the Dead at 76 per cent, followed by his 2021 extended cut of Justice League at 72 per cent.In a one-star review, The Times said, “You’d sell your granny for a sci-fi brain gizmo that could wipe the entire mess from your mind for ever”.The Telegraph, meanwhile, declared that, “We’re given hundreds of details about this galaxy far far away, but no reasons to care about any of them.”Snyder himself has hit back at the negative reviews for the film, saying he’s perplexed by the hostile reaction.“I don’t really have a rebuttal to the reviews. For whatever reason, the reaction to my movies is very polarising, and it always has been.

This week’s release of Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” (read our review) puts many of Netflix’s problems into sharp focus. Reportedly costing around $166 million to make for both films, arguably much less expensive than some big Marvel and “Star Wars” that cost around $200 million each, it’s still a significant figure for movies that have been met with massive critical derision.

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Filmmaker Zack Snyder’s profoundly unfortunate “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire,” a turgid, ostentatiously vacant space opera, was, to put it politely, a dire film and hollow regurgitation of familiar sci-fi tropes. But it at least had a story with three bare acts, however tedious.

Zack Snyder opened up about some dreaming casting decisions that he’d like to make with his Rebel Moon franchise.

Slow-motion scenes that sputter story pacing? Check.Poorly developed characters? Check.Plot holes bigger than the Milky Way? Check.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic What do you call world-building when it’s built entirely out of worlds that have already been built? I wouldn’t call it cinema; it might be closer to Lego with attitude. Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver,” like his “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire,” is a sci-fi action fantasy so familiar and generic, so borrowed from and inspired by other things — it’s the 1977 “Star Wars” meets “Seven Samurai” meets “The Lord of the Guardians of the Rings of the Galaxy” — that it’s already the theme-park version of itself.

Before asking Jesse Eisenberg to rock a bald head, Zack Snyder considered Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of Lex Luthor.

Zack Snyder, the director of 2016′s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice starring Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman, just dropped a fun fact about casting for the film’s villain, Lex Luthor.

With “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” hitting Netflix tomorrow, Zack Snyder is making the press rounds to promote his latest film. But the most intriguing stuff he talked about on the Happy Sad Confused podcast didn’t have anything to do with “Rebel Moon” at all.

Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” is almost upon us, debuting on Netflix this Friday, April 19 (read our review of ‘Part One’). Given its imminent release, the filmmaker appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to discuss Rebel Moon’ and his entire career.

Georgia born actress Neva Howell will portray Martha Kent, Clark Kent’s adoptive Earth mother, in Warner Bros/DC Studio’s Superman from filmmaker and studio co-Boss James Gunn.

What’s next for director Zack Snyder after his upcoming “Rebel Moon” part two sci-fi sequel? While the genre filmmaker has teased a possible third installment in the series, Snyder still has various projects in the oven and is still mulling over what gets made from that pack of contenders, including a sequel to his “Army Of The Dead” zombie movie. During a recent chat with Games Radar to promote the second half of “Rebel Moon,” Snyder was asked about some of the previous projects he had in development, such as a film inspired by the King Arthur mythology (Snyder is a big fan of John Boorman’s R-rated “Excalibur”), Horse Latitudes (a long-gestating Afghan War pic formerly known as “The Last Photograph”), and his sexualized take on Alexander The Great in “Blood & Ashes” too (Snyder once mused about making a George Washington action film).

Zack Snyder has revealed which of the films in his back catalogue is the only one that he still wishes he could make changes to.The director is known for revisiting his movies and creating extended director’s cuts of them, perhaps most notably in the case of the 2021 ‘Snyder Cut’ of his 2017 DC film Justice League.But in a new interview with Empire, Snyder has admitted that there is a different film that he remains somewhat unsatisfied with.“The only movie I would change is Sucker Punch, because it never really got finished correctly,” he said. “Even the director’s cut is not really the correct cut.

Zack Snyder has been concurrently exploring two original franchises at Netflix: the zombie genre actioner “Army of The Dead” and the two-parter “Rebel Moon.” The latter is an old “Star Wars” movie pitch the filmmaker made to Lucasfilm—turning Akira Kurosawa’s iconic “Seven Samurai” into a sci-fi fantasy adventure film.

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While filmmaker Zack Snyder is getting ready to release the second part of his “Rebel Moon” Netflix war film later this month, ‘The Scargiver,’ the director can multitask and is also thinking about the past. In a new Empire interview, Synder says he is still itching to get another crack at his 2011 fantasy film, “Sucker Punch.” So, after convincing Warner Bros.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Kurt Sutter‘s upcoming western series “The Abandons” is rounding out its cast. Variety has learned exclusively that Ryan Hurst, Michael Greyeyes, Michiel Huisman, and Toby Hemingway have all joined the Netflix series in recurring roles. Exact character details are being kept under wraps.

NCT singer Doyoung has announced the upcoming release of his debut solo album, titled ‘Youth’.Doyoung revealed that he would be making his solo debut earlier today (April 4) through posts on NCT’s social media accounts, where he announced ‘Youth’. The record is set to be released on April 22 at 6pm KST, with more information about the album expected in the coming days.According to SM Entertainment, per The Korea Herald, Doyoung’s upcoming debut solo album will feature 10 songs and will be “full of [the singer’s] honest feelings and emotions” as well as “reflect the emotions that youngsters experience”.DOYOUNG ‘청춘의 포말 (YOUTH)’【청춘의 포말 (YOUTH) – The 1st Album】➫ 2024.04.22 6PM (KST)#DOYOUNG #도영 #청춘의포말#DOYOUNG_청춘의포말#DOYOUNG_청춘의포말_YOUTH#NCT #NCT127 pic.twitter.com/QoXtVgHRis— NCT (@NCTsmtown) April 3, 2024Doyoung will be the first member of NCT go embark on a solo career.

aespa have teamed up with Korean-American DJ TOKiMONSTA on a new song titled ‘Die Trying’.aespa and TOKiMONSTA’s new song ‘Die Trying’ is for the soundtrack of Netflix’s upcoming original movie Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, due out on April 19. The film is the sequel to 2023’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child Of Fire, written and directed by Zack Snyder.“See me goin’ psycho / Someone tell me what’s it gonna take / Coming out the gate, I’m a rockstar / I eliminate the imposters / We the last ones on the roster / Never wave a white flag out die trying,” aespa sing on the chorus of the new song, which was produced by TOKiMONSTA.Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child Of Fire was released on Netflix in December 2023.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Nearly every commercial that runs on TV is backed by a guarantee of how big an audience will watch it. Late last year, Fox and Netflix decided to throw out that rule, one of the oldest in media economics. In November, Fox ran a two-minute-long segment during its Sunday-afternoon NFL showcase — one of the most-watched programs on TV.

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The official trailer for Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is here!

Zack Snyder’s fantasy sci-fi epic “Rebel Moon,” once a “Star Wars” pitch reconfigured to be an original project, wasn’t exactly well-received upon its release last December (read our review). Trounced by critics, the film has a dismal 21% Rotten Tomatoes score, and even the generally more lenient audience score is negative.

There’s some exciting news regarding Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver!

Zack Snyder has hit back at the negative reviews for his Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, saying he’s perplexed by the hostile reaction to the film.In a new interview with Empire ahead of the release of Part Two, the writer-director expressed his surprise at the critical response. The film, which has been branded “disaster”, currently holds a score of 21 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.“I don’t really have a rebuttal to the reviews,” Snyder said. “For whatever reason, the reaction to my movies is very polarising, and it always has been.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Rebel Moon” star Sofia Boutella made headlines earlier this month when she told Vulture that critics bashing on Zack Snyder‘s space epic impacted her emotionally. The same wasn’t exactly true for Snyder. The writer-director recently spoke to Empire magazine ahead of the second “Rebel Moon” film coming to streaming and said he doesn’t have much of a reaction to the negative reviews for “Part One.” He seems a bit perplexed over how anything in the first “Rebel Moon” could warrant such hostile reviews.

Filmmaker Zack Snyder has been stretching his franchise wings at Netflix in recent years with the “Army of The Dead” series and his current “Rebel Moon” space opera. However, the former zombie actioner seemingly got a warmer reception than the more recent two-part sci-fi fantasy pic loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai,” repurposed from a “Star Wars” pitch.

Numbers don’t lie, goes the saying. Or do they?

Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” does not come out until April 19, but early press for the film has already apparently begun. Snyder recently went on the Joe Rogan podcast to promote the film and its predecessor “Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire” and in a new interview, its star Sofia Boutella is opening up about how wounded and hurt she was about the critical lambasting that the first film received (read our review).