Zack Snyder Says His R-Rated Director's Cut Of REBEL MOON Is "Almost A Completely Different Movie"

Zack Snyder Says His R-Rated Director's Cut Of REBEL MOON Is "Almost A Completely Different Movie"

Rebel Moon - Part 1: A Child of Fire arrives on Netflix this Friday amid pretty awful reviews, but Zack Snyder claims that his upcoming director's cut is "almost a completely different movie."

By MarkCassidy - Dec 20, 2023 09:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Via SFF Gazette

It sounds like the extended cut of Rebel Moon is going to be very different to the version that hits Netflix this Friday.

There's still a lot of excitement for the first part of Zack Snyder's Star Wars-inspired sci-fi adventure, even though critics have not been overly kind to the divisive director's latest project.

One of the biggest complaints seems to be that A Child of Fire being edited down for its 2 hour, 15 minute streaming debut has resulted in a disjoined and borderline incomprehensible third act, with noticeable cuts to allow for its PG-13 rating.

An R-rated extended version is on the way at some point, however, and, according to Snyder, it's going to be "completely diffrent."

“It’s not an ‘extended cut’ of this movie,” the filmmaker tells the Associated Press in a new video interview. “It’s almost like a different movie. It’s almost a different universe that [the R-rated cut] lives in than this movie.”

“The reason for that is because it’s such a philosophical thing to shoot a director’s cut of a movie before you finish this version,” Snyder went on. “All of my director’s cuts exist as a response to the things that were demanded of me to take out of the theatrical version, right? With [‘Rebel Moon’], that demand was never made. We knew this would be a PG-13 movie. In my heart of hearts, I always wanted it to be rated R, but you realize this sort of scale and cost of a movie and say, ‘Well, it’s not 100% responsible to have that demand.’”

Many have wondered why Snyder didn't simply release his preferred version of the movie in the first place, but Netflix clearly wanted this first cut to reach as many people as possible.

“I’m a good partner, in that sense," Snyder added. "It was Netflix’s idea, they’re like ‘What if we said do whatever you want over here? Do the PG-13 version and then go nuts [on the other cut]. We don’t care.’ That was a thing I’ve never experienced before. That’s when the dimensional rift happened [between the two versions], when that was said out loud.”

At any rate, let's hope the director's cut really is a completely different film, because the version that's hitting Netflix this weekend? Not great (you can check out our review 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.

The heroes of Rebel Moon are: Kora (Sofia Boutella), an Imperium deserter who leaves the peaceful Veldt to fight back; Kai (Charlie Hunnam), a mercenary pilot whose Tawau-Class freighter will prove invaluable to Kora’s quest; Gunnar (Michiel Huisman), a Veldt farmer who knows little of the galaxy outside of his small, quiet corner of the galaxy; General Titus (Djimon Hounsou), a hardened gladiator who once served the Imperium; Tarak (Staz Nair), a noble indentured servant who shares a bond with a flying creature called a Bennu; Nemesis (Doona Bae), a cyborg sword master whose mechanical hands allow her to wield molten-metal weapons; Darrian Bloodaxe (Ray Fisher), an insurgent who has been harrying the Imperium with guerilla attacks; and Milius (E. Duffy), a refugee who seeks justice for their home — a colony that has already fallen to the Mother World.

Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire hits Netflix on December 21. The sequel, Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver, will debut on April 19, 2024.

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FriendoGhus
FriendoGhus - 12/20/2023, 9:47 AM
Lmao already setting up excuses and the next grift for his devout cult of fools.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 12/20/2023, 9:51 AM
@FriendoGhus -
And that's really his problem when he get's creative control and writes his own stuff. Lack of focus and lack of character development. How could you not have a speicific idea of what the movie will be to the point where some "Director's Sex, Blood and Profanity Cut" turns out to be a different movie.

Puhleez!
OleBobbyTiger
OleBobbyTiger - 12/20/2023, 10:53 AM
@FriendoGhus - Honestly this article makes me not want to watch either cut. If you can't tell "part one" of your story in 2 hours you can't tell a good story. Movies are getting to be too damn long these days.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 12/20/2023, 11:07 AM
@FriendoGhus - seriously, what’s wrong with guy.
AleSir19
AleSir19 - 12/20/2023, 7:05 PM
@RoberTiger - Movies always were long. In the firts years of cinema films run for 3 and half or even 4 hours.

Then in the Golden era of cinema, it was standard for a film to run 2 hours and half. Even to the point that only shitty B films were the ones to run 80-90 minutes (mostly thanks to budget).

Then it became the norm in the 60/70's that films didn't need to be 3 hours long, with 90 minutes you had more than enough.

But again, the problem isn't Time, i love a long as [frick] movie if ir needs that Time to tell the story.

The problem is that Zack Snyder cant do shit. He can make a 5 hour cut of a film and still feels like a piece of shit.

For example Justice League, 4 hour cut and it is just a okay film.
Humperdink
Humperdink - 12/20/2023, 7:29 PM
@Goldboink -

How could you not have a speicific idea of what the movie will be to the point where some "Director's Sex, Blood and Profanity Cut" turns out to be a different movie.


That part.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 12/20/2023, 9:47 AM
Zack Snyder seems to not be able to make a film for audiences. If director cuts are your true vision then the audience shouldn't pay to see your theatrical version 💁
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 12/20/2023, 9:54 AM
@UniqNo - in the article he says that netflix didn't mandate that and they told him go nuts
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 12/20/2023, 9:48 AM
Not this again...
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 12/20/2023, 9:48 AM
deja vu

Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 12/20/2023, 9:49 AM
Snyder is just clowning himself at this point. When the four hour version flops, he will say "Aha! But wait until you see the 8 hour version!" 🤡
Arthorious
Arthorious - 12/21/2023, 2:21 AM
@Izaizaiza - and when the 8hr version is bad he’ll say there’s a 16hr version which was his true vision along.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 12/21/2023, 4:13 PM
@Izaizaiza - I mean to be fair, the director cuts of Watchmen, BvS, and JL have all been far better received than the theatrical cuts of those films. And also, a director cut not released in theaters can't really flop.
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 12/21/2023, 4:26 PM
@soberchimera - I haven't seen the directors cut of watchmen, but I agree that the directors cut of Justice League and BVS were better, if still not great movies
soberchimera
soberchimera - 12/21/2023, 4:55 PM
@Izaizaiza - Check it out, it was good! I still haven't seen the Ultimate Cut yet though...
VamP5659
VamP5659 - 12/20/2023, 9:50 AM
Imma about to be Frank Castle...

no no no no! WAIT WAIT WAIT! NO NO!
supermanrex
supermanrex - 12/20/2023, 9:50 AM
why cant this dude ever get his true vision out to the public. he should start making that part of the contracts from now on. cause he is getting killed critically when they apparently chop his vision up into something he doesnt recognize. it should never leave the studio until he is happy and not a second before.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/20/2023, 9:57 AM
@supermanrex - I think he likes this identity he has crafted as someone who always has another cut somewhere. The artist who is never allowed to put out the "true representation of his work" so his fans will clamor, howl, and demand the one true cut. Also, he could be incapable of actually being able to cut down his films. He can't "let go" of anything and cut ties in the editing room with certain aspects.
ShimmyShimmyYA
ShimmyShimmyYA - 12/20/2023, 10:00 AM
@GhostDog - apparently Netflix gave him free reign so he did this purposely lmao
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/20/2023, 10:03 AM
@ShimmyShimmyYA - exactly. There's no other explanation other than he did this on purpose. And Netflix maybe gets a double release out of it.
santoanderson
santoanderson - 12/20/2023, 9:50 AM
Zack Snyder: “Warner Bros sucks! They won’t let me release the far superior director’s cuts of my movies.”

Netflix: “Hey, do you wanna make movies for us? We will let you release literally anything you want. No watered-down theatrical cuts. Just release whatever you want.”

Zack Snyder: “See, the reason why Rebel Moon sucks is because it’s a shortened, sanitized theatrical cut of the movie I wanted to make.”

Netflix: “Bitch, what?”
vegetaray
vegetaray - 12/20/2023, 11:02 AM
@santoanderson - This is literally what it sound like too 🤦‍♂️

He has stop with the excuses as to why his movies are bad…Him constantly saying the directors cut is what he really intended the movie to be, followed by the bellowing of his cult, is all just painfully sad at this point. Here you have Netflix giving him 100% free reign to do as he pleased and he still has to fall back on the same tired excuse.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 12/20/2023, 9:50 AM
Here we go again. 🙄
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/20/2023, 9:53 AM
So...don't watch this cut then? This dude is unbelievable. Sounds like a marketing tactic/scam too. It will get a DOUBLE RELEASE on Netflix and can follow his previous pattern of "better" director cuts.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 12/20/2023, 5:46 PM
@GhostDog - came here to post this exact comment. Snyder is such a chump.

If he ever got a good writer and he just directed he might actually put out great movies in under 4hrs that are already made for fans and not needing a directors bullshit version
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 12/20/2023, 9:53 AM
To be fair, the Snyder Cut of Justice League WAS almost a different movie. The difference is, he has no excuses for this nonsense hitting Netflix on Friday.
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