"War Comes to Every World."
Netflix debuted a behind-the-scenes featurette for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon during its TUDUM event over the weekend, and the streamer has followed-up the footage with the first official poster for the Justice League director's sci-fi adventure.
The banner spotlights Sofia Boutella's main protagonist, Kora, as she stands weapon-in-hand on a lonely-looking planet, while a ship can be seen in the sky above her.
Her character is described as "a young woman with a mysterious past who seeks out warriors from neighbouring planets to help a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy take a stand against the tyrannical Regent Balisarius."
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.
Rebel Moon also stars Djimon Hounsou, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman, Alfonso Herrera, Charlie Hunnam, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Stuart Martin, Jena Malone, Staz Nair, E. Duffy, Charlotte Maggi, Sky Yang Sofia, and Anthony Hopkins.
The movie is set to premiere on December 22.