Normally it’s Disney that drops trailers for highly-anticipated film events in the middle of a football broadcast, but viewers who watched the Dallas Cowboys beat the absolute stuffing out of the New York Giants on Sunday afternoon were treated to at least one exciting bit of footage. That was, of course, the new trailer for Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder’s Seven Samurai-meets-Star Wars riff (even wilder that this is off-brand Star Wars that was gonna be a Star Wars originally). It has one of those multi-punctuated titles — Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, but hey, when it looks this cool, how can one really complain about an extra colon?
Take a look:
Here’s a synopsis:
“After crash landing on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe, Kora (Sofia 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 (Fra Fee) and his cruel emissary, Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein), discover the farmers have unwittingly sold their crops to the Bloodaxes (Cleopatra Coleman and Ray 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 (Michiel 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 (Charlie Hunnam), a pilot and gun for hire; General Titus (Djimon Hounsou), a legendary commander; Nemesis (Doona Bae), a master swordswoman; Tarak (Staz Nair), a captive with a regal past; and Milius (E. 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.”
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire hits Netflix on December 22. We’re not gonna lie, we’re pretty bummed that this isn’t getting a major theatrical push two weeks from its streaming date, but you better bet that we’ll be nogged-out and down to party when this hits the queue.