“Star Wars is ubiquitous \u2013 you can’t turn a corner without running into Baby Yoda.” <\/p>
Zack Snyder has opened up about how he didn\u2019t want to \u201cshy away\u201d from the fact that his new movie, Rebel Moon<\/a>, started out as a Star Wars<\/a> project.<\/p>\n The director is releasing his sci-fi epic<\/a> in two parts, with the first being released on Netflix on 21st December, while the second will hit screens in April.<\/p>\n Snyder has been open about how Rebel Moon started as a Star Wars project, exclusively telling RadioTimes.com<\/a>: \u201cIt was an interesting balance that we had to strike because I wasn\u2019t afraid of there being a reference \u2013 I mean it more symbolically because the movie is a product of the movies that made me in the late \u201970s, from the early \u201980s, movies that sort of shaped my sort of cinematic language that I enjoy.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I didn\u2019t want to shy away from it and be like, \u2018Oh, it doesn\u2019t exist.\u2019 Also, I felt like it\u2019s important in the pantheon of science fiction.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, Star Wars is a giant reference for everybody and so I wanted, in whatever way we could, even symbolically, to comment on that relationship, to have the imagery and the symbolism commenting on the plusses and minuses of what that iconology does for everyone \u2013 in the sense that it sheds a light on, what are the limitations or the positives of that iconology that we\u2019re all just 100 per cent taking for granted?<\/p>\n \u201cStar Wars is ubiquitous \u2013 you can\u2019t turn a corner without running into Baby Yoda\u2026 and so I think that to make a real hard effort not to do that really limits where you can be creatively. So we just said, \u2018OK, we know that exists. So fine. We\u2019re going to just design things now.\u2019 Just [things] that we like, and we\u2019re going to use that are sort of our taste level, what we think is cool.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we\u2019re not going to worry if sometimes those things overlap.\u201d<\/p> Rebel Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire follows Kora (Sofia Boutella)<\/a>, a young woman with a mysterious past who\u2019s made a quiet farming colony her home.<\/p>\n But when it\u2019s threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius (Fra Fee), and particularly his henchman Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein), she\u2019s forced to take action, seeking out warriors from neighbouring planets to help her make a stand.<\/p>\n Rebel Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire is available to stream now on Netflix.\u00a0Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on\u00a0Sky Glass<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Virgin Media Stream<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage, or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>. 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