Rebel Moon has signed on Anthony Hopkins to voice a battle robot and Zack Snyder fans are in awe from witnessing the first look at the eerie-looking sentient. Snyder’s sci-fi saga for Netflix is already winning hearts offering teasing glimpses of the alien characters in breathtaking practical makeup. Though the Justice League director is amid production, it isn’t stopping him from releasing a behind-the-scenes look at a few of the characters, particularly the alien robot voiced by the two-times Oscar winner.
A giant space opera with visual effects, sci-fi fantasy and crazy action, as Snyder and Sofia Boutella described the Rebel Moon during their brief message from the production set for Netflix Geeked Week. Prior to releasing the new behind-the-scenes look at Hopkins’ battle robot, Snyder also shared an image of an alien creature. Both makeup test images have fans praising the Netflix project and many hoping to get more new looks at Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou and others. Readers can check it out in the reactions below.
REBEL MOON WILL BE REAL CINEMA
— 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖Ʊ𝗥𝗬 (@theeSNYDERVERSE) June 8, 2022
Zack cookin up somethin special. Keep your capesh*t just give me #RebelMoon pic.twitter.com/wfyIGQNlRi
— Amateur Watcher ⚒️ (@OhioDavee) June 8, 2022
ZACK SNYDER’S REBEL MOON IS GOING TO BE PRACTICAL pic.twitter.com/iZSzXUOdF5
— 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗳 SnyderVerse (@Itssan17) June 8, 2022
Loving the look and feel of Zack Snyder's REBEL MOON pic.twitter.com/ECDZPeuRAv
— Walt (@Uber_Kryptonian) June 8, 2022
Enhanced look at JIMMY, voiced by Sir Anthony Hopkins, from Zack Snyder's #RebelMoon pic.twitter.com/BNGITtoi4V
— Rebel Moon Updates (@RebelMoonUpdate) June 9, 2022
Rebel Moon is about to be something else man. Woah… https://t.co/kfpM29paul
— Grayson (@KnightFleck) June 8, 2022
Yes indeed!!! 🔥🔥🔥 #GeekedWeek #RebelMoon https://t.co/hXPoNVBcR3
— Ray Fisher (@ray8fisher) June 8, 2022
WHAT IF
ITS ALL CONNECTED#RebelMoon #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague #ArmyOfTheDead #Netflix #ZackSnyder pic.twitter.com/Y20FGNOqrl
— Garrus Vakarian / SHE-HULK era (@BLURRY4949) June 8, 2022
Don’t worry, pure cinema is coming back. ⚒#NetflixGeeked #RebelMoon pic.twitter.com/8b7NJcihoT
— 𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗘 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗻𝘆𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 🇫🇷 (@Ollie_EarthOne) June 8, 2022
Lets GOOOOOOOO #RebelMoon pic.twitter.com/8xapF8gLzu
— Rebel Yeager (@caped_bruce) June 8, 2022
*Visualize*#RebelMoon #ZackSnyder𓃵 #SirAnthonyHopkins pic.twitter.com/Ah0Kx6ZOnT
— Black Gekikara (@Black__Gekikara) June 8, 2022
Holy shit!… We are in for a treat with #RebelMoon can't wait to see more!#ZackSnyder #NetflixGeeked 🤯 pic.twitter.com/pEIuXXjY9v
— 🗡️🗡️🗡️🌹 V 🌹🗡️🗡️🗡️ (@Kri4vendetta) June 8, 2022
I AM IN LOVE ! #RebelMoon pic.twitter.com/87P45svdS1
— Leonidas (@Signs2323) June 8, 2022
REBEL MOON SWEEP https://t.co/aCkMJ8cCyx pic.twitter.com/O8cSydqnaO
— Muneeb Sajjad 🇵🇰 (@WheresGabagool) June 8, 2022
Rebel Moon is more of a pet project for Snyder and its inception was as a Star Wars pitch eventually rejected and taken the form of this new franchise. Even so, the sci-fi flick has taken influence from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai as well. As the story goes, in a distant space, a peaceful colony is threatened by the tyrannical Regent Balisarius. A young woman (Sofia Boutella) with a mysterious past is later dispatched to find warriors from nearby planets to fight against the Tyrant.
Hopkins’ character was described as “an impossibly sentient JC1435 mechanized battle robot and one-time defender of the slain King.” It’s unclear if he’d be one of the warriors Boutella’s character would recruit to fight the space army.
Rebel Moon is helmed from a script penned by Snyder and the director is also producing along with Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller for The Stone Quarry production. The sci-fi project also stars, Ray Fisher, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Alfonso Herrera, Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Stuart Martin, Rhian Rees, Fra Fee, Ed Skrein, Charlotte Maggi, Cleopatra Coleman, Jena Malone, E. Duffy, Sky Yang and Staz Nair.
