Rebel Moon – Part One: Netflix’s $150 million sci-fi epic is just Star Wars with scowls

Muscle pumps are to Zack Snyder what murder was to Alfred Hitchcock, so it should come as no surprise that his new science-fiction fantasy epic unfolds in a galaxy far, far away where everybody has enormous arms. The often awkwardly familiar Rebel Moon started life as an official Star Wars project at Lucasfilm before Snyder hauled it over to Netflix, sans franchise branding but with an estimated $150 million price tag, making it the streamer’s costliest 2023 release. And around its many nods to