Snyder welcomes the Star Wars comparisons.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Zack Snyder addresses Rebel Moon's inevitable comparisons to Star Wars. The upcoming space opera was originally conceived by Snyder as a more mature take on the Star Wars universe which he actually pitched to, but was rejected by Lucasfilm following its sale to Disney.
Long before the release of the recent Rebel Moon trailer, Screen Rant visited the set of Snyder's sci-fi epic and asked the director about the inevitable comparisons that will be made to Star Wars. Rather than rejecting the comparisons, Snyder is embracing Rebel Moon's relationship to the iconic sci-franchise. In the end, he's also glad his movie isn't restricted by the existing Star Wars canon.
I don't think you can make a sci-fi movie now that's not going to be compared to a Star Wars movie in some way. So I do welcome and am happy to discuss where its place is or where it will end up in popular culture in regard to the legacy of Star Wars and how Star Wars has the lion's share of creative thinking when it comes to audiences and their love of the Star Wars universe and that evolution.
We were just literally in the pitching stages and sort of discussion stages. And also you know the sale happened, and I had just finished Man of Steel, and we were in post. So then we were getting ready to do BvS, and I wasn't going to not do BvS, you know? So it was going to be like, "Look I can do this at some point," but you know they had made a pretty hard plan once they made the sale about how what Star Wars was going [to be] into the future.
Rebel Moon is arguably just as reminiscent of Dune, but since Snyder's sci-fi film began life as a pitch for a Star Wars movie, it will always naturally be compared to the latter franchise. This is something that Snyder isn't shying away from, and instead is embracing given the obvious similarities between the two properties, which isn't surprising since Snyder has always worn his influences on his sleeve.
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