Zack Snyder’s upcoming two-part Rebel Moon film project will get an extended two-part R-rated cut for fans to watch. Well, it turns out that those cuts of the films will not just feature deleted scenes, they will actually expand on the story and offer deeper character development. Of course, it will also include more violent action as well.
During a recent interview with Total Film, producer Deborah Snyder explained that this is something they were actually able to plan for this time around:
“The difference [this time] is that we’ve planned for it… it’s not an afterthought. We’re still tweaking, but they’ll probably be 45-minutes to an hour longer, each one. You get more character. You get a lot more of everything. It’s not just a few deleted scenes.”
I actually like this, and I’m not sure if anything like this has been done before, where two versions of the same film are made while in production. Almost every extended cut of a film ever is just the film that was made along with the added deleted scenes that didn’t make the final cut. With the Rebel Moon films, both versions of the film are the completed final cut. It’s great!
The story follows a group of ragtag rebels who rise up to fight against a giant, evil Empire. It’s set in a “peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius. They dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a stand against the Tyrant.”
This is a two-part film and each part will come with an R-rated edition that fans can watch as well. The movie stars Charlie Hunnam, Ed Skrein, Bae Doona, Djimon Hounsou. Ray Fisher, Jena Malone, Ed Skrein, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman, Anthony Hopkins, and Alfonso Herrera.
The two Rebel Moon films are titled A Child of Fire and the second titled The Scargiver, which will be released next spring. A Child of Fire is scheduled to arrive on Netflix on December 22nd.
