Zack Snyder wants Rebel Moon Part 2 to "feel like Dunkirk," according to one of its stars

12.12.2023 - 10:23 / gamesradar.com / Zack Snyder / Christopher Nolan / Sofia Boutella

Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon – Part One revolves around a woman's mission to save the peaceful farming moon of Veldt that she calls home from a brutal enemy; as we learn in the film's opening scenes, the cruel and powerful Motherworld intends to bleed Veldt dry for its resources, leaving its subjugated people to starve. 

That's where Sofia Boutella's Kora comes in. She sets off on a dangerous journey to recruit a team of allies who can help her defend the moon and its gentle villagers. But, as we know, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire isn't the full story. 

Part Two, titled The Scargiver, is just around the corner, arriving in April 2024. That means there's plenty still to come – and, according to Ed Skrein, who plays the fearsome, villainous Admiral Noble in the films, Part Two is set to be seriously epic. 

"I remember Zack saying with the second movie that he wanted it to feel like Dunkirk," Skrein tells GamesRadar+ when we meet in London, referring to Christopher Nolan's World War 2 movie. "So it's like, there's a space at the beginning, and then it's going off. And it's really, really going off. And, you know, Return of the King, Lord of the Rings vibes where it's like, 'Okay, we kind of know where they're going.' It's like, 'Alright, now let's just sit back, eat loads of popcorn, and watch it all kickoff.'"

It's no surprise that the ending of the two-part saga sounds huge. When GR+ meets with Snyder, he tells us that the original screenplay for Rebel Moon was some 200 pages long, and the project ended up in halves after he was reluctant to cut it down. That means that both parts are telling a single, unified story – but they're still very different, with the follow-up going heavy on the action. "You'd think that, 'Oh, if it's one long movie, the tones will be pretty similar, just would have continued through,'" he says. "But movie two is a much different vibe, because if movie one was like, 'Here's all the characters, let's go find them and bring them together and then come back to Veldt,' movie two is really like a war movie. The tone is different."

But action isn't all you can expect from Part Two. Michiel Huisman, who plays naive, Veltdian farmer Gunnar in A Child of Fire, hints that the follow-up will go deeper on each character that Kora recruits across Part One. "In Part One, we only have so much time to introduce the worlds and the characters," he says. "And I think in Part Two, we get to know them a lot better."

It's a sentiment that Ray Fisher, who plays revolutionary warrior Darian Bloodaxe, shares. "Bigger action. I'm trying to use one word, so I don't spoil anything, but big action, and a lot of exploration of the characters that you are going to love in Part One," he reveals of