Empire Magazine has unveiled this month's covers, and they spotlight some of the main characters from Zack Snyder's upcoming Netflix sci-fi flick, Rebel Moon.
The news-stand cover features Sofia Boutella’s Kora, Charlie Hunnam’s Kai, Djimon Hounsou’s General Titus, Doona Bae’s Nemesis, and android Jimmy (who will be voiced by Anthony Hopkins), while the subscriber-only version gives us another look at the awesome droid design for Jimmy.
Check out both covers at the link below.
Snyder explained the plot of his Akira Kurosawa-inspired tale during a recent interview.
"The movie’s about a planet not in our... it’s a space fantasy so there’s no Earth, necessarily. But there’s a community on a planet, a farming planet, and there’s a bunch of bad guys from other worlds [who] are in the area and they need to be fed, so they come to the village and ask for the village to feed them while they’re doing their war in that area of the galaxy. And, of course, they are not kind about asking and the result will probably be the obliteration of the village itself. The villagers decide to fight, and so they have to go out into the galaxy and collect warriors to help them."
The basic premise of Seven Samurai has been replicated countless times (we even had a sci-fi take on the story in the little-seen Roger Corman movie Battle Beyond the Stars), so let's hope Snyder is planning to inject a few new ideas here.
From Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes REBEL MOON, an epic science-fantasy event decades in the making. When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors — outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge. As the shadow of an entire Realm bears down on the unlikeliest of moons, a battle over the fate of a galaxy is waged, and in the process, a new army of heroes is formed.
Rebel Moon is set to premiere on December 22.