Twilight of the Gods (2024-)

Gods killing Gods would go unnoticed, but a mortal, that would remake the world. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (September 19 2024)

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS on Netflix — September 19 2024 In a mythical world of great battles, great deeds, and great despair, Leif (Stuart Martin), a mortal king, is saved on the battlefield by Sigrid (Sylvia Hoeks), an iron-willed warrior with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night, Sigrid and Leif survive a wrath of terror from Thor (Pilou Asbæk), which sets them — and a crew of crusaders — on a merciless mission for vengeance, against all odds. This heroic story of love, loss, and revenge, is a journey to hell and beyond … across fantastical lands, battlefields fierce and bloody, and wars waged against deities and demons.

We fear no Gods!

First Look at Zack Snyder's new animated series, Twilight of the Gods

It will be on Netflix in the Fall.

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

Cast & Characters of Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver from Netflix Press Notes

zacksnyder There is no surrender. Part Two premieres in 11 days on @Netflix.

Rebel Moon - Part Two : The Scargiver (2024)

Happy birthday, Zack!

I really enjoyed this fantastical beginning to a new world by @zacksnyder #rebelmoon #zacksnyder #netflix #sofiaboutella #djimonhounsou #edskrein #michielhuisman #doonabae #rayfisher #charliehunnam #anthonyhopkins PS @EdSkrein is perfection as ‘The Bad Guy’ #chefskiss

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Rebel Moon Review Round Up

Here are some insightful reviews for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire

For my fellow Snyder Fans I recommend these reviews because they are good critiques that engage with the work. I also recommend them to those that didn't like the film. Not to change your mind but to offer pieces of genuine criticism.

A SPACE OPERA GONE OPERATIC by Joshua Polanski

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Rebel Moon was originally conceived of as a Star Wars film but, freed from the burdens of canon and Disney’s top-down production management, the end result feels less like a derivation and more like a successor. I wouldn’t dare suggest it will have the same sort of cultural influence as Star Wars — that’s a fundamentally irreplicable phenomenon in the streaming age. Yet, when compared to the recent garbage from Disney (Marvel and Star Wars both), Snyder proves the most capable and artful custodian of the extravagant, quasi-religious space-opera. His longstanding technical mastery that evolved into mainstream formal iconoclasm with the extreme shallow focus with the 15mm Canon dream lens of Army of the Dead and the 4:3 aspect ratio for Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) is taken to new extremes with the creative freedom provided by Netflix. Snyder’s inviolable picture bids for a better Hollywood. If we’re lucky, it might even be a taste of what’s to come.

Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire Review by Kilo Orange

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The village reminded me of the famous painting by Jean-François Millet, which shows two peasants saying a prayer over the soil. It would fit, for that painting is about the "Angelus", a prayer about the Virgin Mary being told she would conceive and bear the Messiah, and here we have the virginal Kora with her seeds, the fruit of her womb, after lifting out a barren rock. Of course, with Snyder's knowledge of art and artistic subversion, he'd know about that painting, and that Salvador Dali (another subversive Catholic) suggested it wasn't an Angelus prayer, but that the two peasants were actually praying over a dead child. And when the painting was X-rayed, they did indeed find a child's coffin had been painted over. Millet had turned grief into a prayer. 

That's what Zack Snyder does in Rebel Moon. 

A dead child. Snyder's grief has not abated over his daughter's suicide in 2017 and now it's loudly joined by the curse that will affect all survivors of a loved one’s suicide - guilt. This film is infused with guilt. All the heroes who we collect as the film goes on feel guilty about some tragedy in their past.

Rebels of the World Unite (and Take Over) by John Demetry

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Following an assassination of the Mother World’s King and his family that severed the galaxy’s royal bloodline, Kora hides on Veldt. That’s where the film opens. Snyder visualizes Kora’s idyll and the Mother World’s encroachment into it with sexual symbolism. A phallic spacecraft penetrates a yonic fold in space-time accompanied by Tom Holkenborg’s monolithic score (a sound-visual consummation worthy of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey). In Snyder’s eroticized odyssey, Kora fondles and smells the dirt while plowing a field. The night before planting the soil, the farming community pleases the gods with sexual couplings that ensure a strong sprout. Following that night’s pairing off, Sam girlishly teases Kora for her nocturnal pleasure noises—at the precise moment that the Mother World ship infiltrates the sky above Veldt. Seeds spill from Kora’s pouch—recalling Sean Connery’s phallic gun rising from the grain in John Boorman’s Zardoz. As expressed by Snyder’s highly sophisticated film language, Kora’s sexual dilemma—her vulnerability—sows danger that reaps action. 

Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire Review by Phil Halz

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Rebel Moon, like Man Of Steel and BVS, is a powerful reckoning with the bleak, cruel elements which are always implicit in their respective genres, whether the hateful fanboy nerds want to acknowledge them or not. And the subversion of Star Wars with a Seven Samurai premise illustrates the ways in which Star Wars falls short of the humanistic greatness in Kurosawa's masterworks. To say nothing of the Disney entries, which suppress and deny the sadness at the core of The Empire Strikes Back. 

An Action Film with the Touch of a Poet by Armond White

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Kids who love sci-fi and video-game fantasy are easily impressed as part of the fun, but the genre has rarely produced filmmakers who are aesthetically distinguished. Snyder has that gift (his imagery unites ideas from Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life with Walter Hill’s Geronimo: An American Legend — the lyrical, the hostile, plus the historical. And he achieves visual-kinetic excitement that George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and the Wachowskis should envy. With the exception of Chad Stahelski’s dazzling John Wick 4, nothing on screen this year has been so visually striking as Rebel Moon. The essence of movement and spectacle sets them apart — and the expressiveness of Kora’s flashbacks, conveying her emotional need and androgynous mystery (creating promise for Part II), surpasses the juvenile tomboy gestures of Daisy Ridley’s Rey in the Star Wars saga.

Zack Snyder Adding the final touches. The @RebelMoon teaser trailer will make its global debut live @Gamescom. See you there on Tuesday, August 22. #RebelMoon

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