Zack Snyder and the Rebel Moon cast tease the upcoming director's cuts, including that NSFW alien scene: "I hope I don't become too much of a meme"
Apr. 17, 2024Exclusive: The Rebel Moon director’s cuts will be longer, grittier, and darker, according to Snyder and the cast
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Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver might be bringingZack Snyder’s two-part sci-fi epic to a (potential) close, but there’s still more to come from the universe.
There areextended director’s cutsfor both movies on the way to Netflix, which will clock in at around three hours each. We sat down with Snyder and the cast to talk about The Scargiver – and, in the process, we learned more about the upcoming new versions of both movies.
“The thing I’m most excited about people seeing when they watch the director’s cut is, rather than it being an extended or different version of these movies, they’re kind of like this alternate universe version of the movie,” Snyder tells us. “That’s kind of how I describe them. Even though, of course, there’s many scenes that are the same, there’s so much that’s different, even the points of view are slightly different. And I think that’d be fun for audiences to see this much deeper dive. Each of them is one hour longer, the two movies together are six hours. And I think that that’s going to be fun for fans. And also, this is very adult as a difference.”
There’s one other scene in particular, though, that has Skrein’s attention. “Also, I don’t know whether to be worried or excited, because the people at Netflix keep saying to me, ‘Have you seen the R-rated cut yet?’ and they say, ‘Have you seen your alien sex scene yet?'” he says. Noble is seen in a dalliance with an alien creature in the standard version ofA Child of Fire, though the movie cuts away before we see anythingtoographic…
“They’re like, ‘It’s crazy. You really went for it, didn’t you?'” he continues. “And I’m like, ‘I go for it every take and scene, I don’t hold back.’ So I’m super excited to see that. And I hope I don’t become too much of a meme.”
Skrein’s NSFW tentacle tangle won’t be the only thing that’s different in the new versions of the films, either. “The director’s cut specifically is a lot more gritty and a lot more scuzzy,” says Staz Nair, who plays the griffin-taming Tarak. “If we were living in a dystopian future where there was one planet autonomously dictating how and where people eat, surviving at the cost of one kind of superpower, people would be horrible. People don’t get held accountable for what they do in their own countries. If you could do something and then go off world and have no one reprimand you for it, the world would be dirty, it would be dangerous, it would be scary and quite dark. A lot of the time when we do these beautiful dystopian science fiction stories, we lose some of the realism for the sake of charm, and these kinds of worlds, they wouldn’t be charming, they would be difficult. And I think the director’s cut gives more of that scuzzy realism.”
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Keep your eyes peeled for the details, too. “There are a lot of Easter eggs,” Sofia Boutella, who plays Kora, AKA the Scargiver herself, teases. “A lot of what you see or hear in movie one, you understand the full scope of it in the extended. Like, ‘Oh, that’s what happened.'”
While the director’s cuts don’t yet have a release date, The Scargiver arrives on Netflix this April 19. For more, check out our interview withSnyder on his “surprise” next projectand whyhe wants to release his director’s cutofSucker Punch.
You can also fill out your watchlist with our guide to thebest Netflix moviesstreaming now.
I’m a Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site’s Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.
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