Zack Snyder is a man who needs no introduction. Considered to be one of the best filmmakers of this generation, with several great projects in the past like 300, Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, and many more. However, the filmmaker has found himself in tricky waters as his recent film, Rebel Moon, a Netflix Original, was all set to add to his collection of box office hits but failed to convince its audience to do so.
Upon release, the sci-fi film was not universally acclaimed as it got slammed by the critics as well as received humiliating reviews from the viewers of the film. Snyder’s passion project was meant to be a rival of the evergreen franchise, Star Wars. But it now looks like Snyder needs a miracle in his favor to convince the streaming giants to give a green signal for his pre-planned 6 Rebel Moon films.
Zack Snyder Needs A Miracle To Convince Netflix Of His 6 Rebel Moon Films After Box Office Disaster
Zack Snyder made an ardent effort to bring forth his R-rated Star Wars project to be the next big thing, which has been solely developed by Netflix, and even the filmmaker hoped that his Rebel Moon would be a direct competitor and as big of a franchise like George Lucas’ Star Wars.
Despite the first film failing to blow away the minds of the critics and viewers, the filmmaker ardently believes this opinion would be changed once he comes up with the six films, narrating the story of Kora, a mysterious woman seeking warriors to against the tyrannical Regent Balisarius and his army.
Recently, Snyder talked to RadioTimes.com, where he shared that “four or six movies” would make sense as it is not every day that they come up with a new sci-fi franchise. He said,
“I guess four makes sense. Four or six movies, depending… I guess it’s whether or not every time we make one of these movies we make two, that’s the question. We were talking about it the other day and I was like, would an audience be disappointed if they only got one movie now from Rebel Moon? Would they be like, ‘Oh, it’s one now? Great.'”
The 300 filmmaker added that the 2nd part of the film has been approved by the OTT platform, but not the third film. He states that everyone wants the story to be set and they are doing all the necessary work.
“We absolutely have the story all set, we did all that work. We wrote a treatment for the movie so we’ll see how we go ahead.”
However, Snyder would need the sequel to make a positive impact on the viewers and the critics, or else the franchise might get canceled; as the streaming platform has decided to focus more on quality than quantity.
Netflix’s New Policy Puts Snyder’s Rebel Moon’s Future in Jeopardy
Scott Stuber, the Head of Netflix’s film division came forward and talked to Variety about how the streaming platform had deviated from its promise of providing quality content, as it had been focusing on the quantity it could provide to its subscribers. As a result, this made them question their business model, bringing this malpractice to a stop. He said,
“We were growing a new studio. We’d only been doing this for a few years, and we were up against 100-year-old companies So you have to ask yourself, ‘What is your business model?’ And for a while, it was just making sure that we had enough. We needed volume.”
The esteemed news organization reports that the OTT platform has shifted its content strategy and “opted to take fewer bets,” by cutting back on its roughly 50 films per year to around 25-30. Stuber also mentioned that they aren’t trying to hit a specific number annually as they want projects that they can proudly say are theirs. He said,
“Right now, we’re not trying to hit a set number of film releases. It’s about ‘Let’s make what we believe in. And let’s actually put forth a slate that we can stand behind and say, ‘This is the best version of a romantic comedy. This is the best version of a thriller. This is the best version of a drama.'”
This new policy means bad news to Snyder because even though the executives of the platform has immense faith in the filmmaker, they will not let poor projects affect their reputation. Hence, the filmmaker must give it all in the sequel of his sci-fi project to continue with his 4 other films.
Rebel Moon can be streamed on Netflix.
