Rebel Moon
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Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is arriving a smidge earlier than expected. Netflix is eventizing the release of the filmmaker’s upcoming sci-fi fantasy epic moving up the release date and having the movie take over the streamer’s platform worldwide.
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire will now premiere on the streamer at 7 p.m. PT on Dec. 21, hours earlier than its scheduled Dec. 22 debut.
And for the first few days, audiences will be treated to a cinematic digital billboard that will take over the streamer’s homepage around the world. The billboard will run Dec. 21 to Dec. 25, and can be previewed below.
Netflix is also hoping to maximize viewing but announcing that at the end of the movie, viewers will be treated to the teaser trailer for Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver. That movie is dated to hit Netflix on April 19, 2024.
Netflix has been ramping up the hype for Snyder’s epic since the summer. While the writers and actors strike shut down a planned Comic-Con panel, the movie got a sneak peek at the company’s Tudum event in Brazil. It also offered fans the experience of personalized trailers at ComplexCon, held in November in Long Beach, and at CCXP, South America’s largest comic convention which is held in Brazil. At the latter, Snyder showed up to direct some fans for the trailers.
Rebel Moon stars Sofia Boutella as a woman with a past living on a small agricultural moon on the edge of a galactic empire. When vicious soldiers threaten her new home, she organizes a group of outlaws to take on the forces. Ed Skrein, Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou are among the actors on the roll call.
Check out a gif and a video of the billboard below.