Zack Snyder and Netflix hope to launch a new franchise with Rebel Moon Part 1: Child of Fire, with Part 2 to release next year.
Netflix concluded its Geeked Week showcase yesterday with the release of the full trailer for director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire. It’s the first of two parts (with plans for a third film to make it a trilogy), and Snyder and the streaming giant hope the films will launch a new space opera franchise. There are already plans for a novelization of the film, a four-issue prequel comic, a narrative podcast, an animated series, and a four-player game for the Netflix gaming platform.
As we reported previously, years ago, director Zack Snyder had an idea for an epic Star Wars movie that he pitched to Lucasfilm. That project never panned out for a variety of reasons. But the idea continued to germinate until

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