{"id":31257,"date":"2023-03-20T18:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1803449"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:42:25","slug":"zack-snyders-star-wars-homage-spawns-a-literally-insane-video-game","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/zack-snyders-star-wars-homage-spawns-a-literally-insane-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Snyder\u2019s Star Wars homage spawns a \u201cliterally insane\u201d video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> That&#8217;s no moon&#8230; it&#8217;s an RPG. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Leane\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 20 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Justice League director Zack Snyder has revealed that his upcoming Star Wars-inspired movie, the Netflix-destined <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/rebel-moon-release-date-netflix\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Moon<\/a>, is getting a tie-in video game. He\u2019s even gone so far as to describe the game as \u201cliterally insane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As Snyder previously confirmed on the <a href=\"\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/happy-sad-confused\/episode\/zack-snyder-84230360&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast (you can hear the chat at 26 minutes and 50 seconds into that episode), the idea for Rebel Moon was originally intended to take place in the Star Wars universe. Snyder pitched the idea to Lucasfilm in the years between the Star Wars prequel trilogy\u2019s release and the Disney takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Snyder has opted to reimagine Rebel Moon as an original intellectual property, with Netflix planning to release the movie on 22nd December 2023. Taking inspiration from Akira Kurosawa (the same director that famously inspired George Lucas), the film has been described by <a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/rebel-moon-release-date-photos&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a> as Snyder\u2019s \u201cnew space fantasy epic, [where] a small colony on the outskirts of the galaxy is targeted by the insidious empire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all! As we\u2019ve learned today, Snyder is also working on a role-playing video game (RPG) set in the same universe. Snyder revealed the Rebel Moon game\u2019s existence during a video interview on a YouTube channel called The Nerd Queens.<\/p>\n<p>If you jump into the video below at one hour, eight minutes and 26 seconds, you\u2019ll be able to hear him talking about it with your own ears.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Zack\" snyder=\"\" joins=\"\" the=\"\" nerd=\"\" queens=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mzKY20dly6c?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Speaking about Rebel Moon\u2019s potential as a franchise in its own right, Snyder said, \u201cThe one thing that I\u2019m having a really good time with \u2014 and I don\u2019t really know if I\u2019m supposed to talk about it \u2014 but, this RPG that we\u2019re doing that is just literally insane, and so immersive and so intense and so huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snyder does not detail in the interview who he is making the game with (although it\u2019s no secret that <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/technology\/gaming\/netflix-games-mobile-impact-comment-exclusive-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Netflix is trying to break into the gaming space<\/a>), but he does tease the scope of this project several times. He also promised that the game will be \u201cfun\u201d, as well as noting that it will feature \u201ca completely realised universe\u201d connected to his Rebel Moon film.<\/p> <p>He said, \u201cThere\u2019s more coming, but all I\u2019ll say is\u2026 it was pitched to me, because I\u2019ve always wanted to do an RPG, but they were like, \u2018We could do it at this scale or we could do it at ridiculous scale.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Ridiculous scale is clearly the scale that we should be doing it.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snyder has worked with Netflix before, notably on his Army of the Dead film, and he\u2019s assembled a starry cast for the Rebel Moon movie \u2014 Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Ray Fisher, Charlie Hunnam and Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes and Corey Stoll are all confirmed to appear in the flick. It will be interesting to find out if any of them reprise their roles for the gaming spin-off.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll bring you more news on this mysterious sci-fi game as we hear it! Here\u2019s hoping for something that can hold its own next to the legendary Star Wars RPG that is <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/technology\/gaming\/kotor-remake-release-date-trailer\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Knights of the Old Republic<\/a>. 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