Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder has spoken about his approach to world-building in his new sci-fi opera franchise.
Speaking with ComingSoon, Snyder was asked about if he always does extensive world-building or did so because of Rebel Moon’s planned expansions into other mediums like video games and animated content. The filmmaker revealed he always expands on the details of his worlds to ensure everything makes sense and allow later expansions to rely on a “pathological canon” that already exists.
“Yeah, we really did,” Snyder explained. “I just felt like, in order for the world to really be consistent and make sense and not step on its own toes, we were going to have to do the work of really going into the corners of all the different cultures and histories and stuff like that to make it make sense.”
“Not only if you get the extra material that we’re creating, whether it be a video game or a comic book or an animated film or whatever, but that those things have a real sort of pathological canon that they can rely on so that they’re not having to riff that they’re actually feeding the general idea with other experiences, but that are consistent with the world. I felt like that was really important for the richness that I think fans expect these days of a thing of this nature.”
What happens in Rebel Moon?
“A peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius,” reads the film’s synopsis. “The desperate civilians dispatch Kora, a young woman who has a mysterious past, to seek out warriors from nearby planets to help them challenge the regent.”
Rebel Moon – Part One is now playing in limited theaters and will be released on Netflix on Thursday, December 21.
