Magdalene Visaggio, writer for Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe:
"The planet Shasu, homeworld of Devra and Darrian Bloodaxe, was long the unconquerable world. It's history goes back almost 10,000 years to when the first wave of settlers took root on the unspoiled scrub world.
Their descendants form the planets indigenous population, the Tarungtusa (or as colonists call them, the "wilderfolk," nomadic clans who have maintained their traditional lifestyle (which heavily features crazy sci-fi technology, such as computerized, self-erecting "tents").
Several hundred years before the events of REBEL MOON came the first wave of offworld colonists, colloquially known as the "city-dwellers" who have by now largely adopted much of Tarungtusa culture.
And ~fifty years before the events of the movie, Shasu was at last subdued by KOSEBA THE CONQUEROR, Devra and Darrian's grandfather. A Motherworlder, birth name Fidel, Koseba was a low-ranking officer until he took command during the Diggers' Uprising and saved an outpost.
For a reward, he was granted the title to Feodom Shasu, which mostly entitled him to sit in the Assembly and collect trade revenue. It was pretty much a nominal title since the planet was "unconquerable." So he set out to conquer it.
Fidel did the impossible: built a coalition, married into one of the most powerful clans, changed his name to Koseba, and adopted the ways and manner of the Tarungtusa. Alongside his wife Hiraat, he was able to bring a kind of Pax Koseba to the divided planet.
Now his son -- Devra and Darrian's father -- sits in power as Lord Shasu, but he is not Koseba. He's not even close.
He's 3/4 Tarungtusa but he was raised in the Citadel and educated on Motherworld. His exposure to his mother's people is limited, and his reign would never have survived without the active diplomacy of his Tarungtusa wife, Amirami. But Amirami is dead. Who will protect him from his people now?"
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REBEL MOON (2023) | Total Film Exclusive
The Rebel Moon director’s cuts won’t be quite like regular director’s cuts
Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic based on an old Star Wars pitch, is hitting Netflix in two parts.
In classic Zack Snyder fashion, though, the director is already working on R-rated director’s cuts of each film that will offer deeper character beats and even more gloriously violent speedramped action. But, these will be unique from regular director’s cuts for a key reason.
“The difference [this time] is that we’ve planned for it… it’s not an afterthought,” producer Deborah Snyder tells Total Film magazine in the new issue, which hits newsstands on Thursday, October 12 and features Ridley Scott on the cover. “We’re still tweaking, but they’ll probably be 45-minutes to an hour longer, each one. You get more character. You get a lot more of everything. It’s not just a few deleted scenes.”
The films see a peaceful colony threatened by the sinister Imperium, with a lone warrior – Sofia Boutella’s Kora – setting off to gather allies to make a stand against the enemies. Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Bae Doona, Ray Fisher, Jena Malone and Ed Skrein co-star. You can see a new, menacing look at Skrein as his villainous character in our exclusive image above. Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire will land on Netflix this December 22, while Part Two: The Scargiver will drop just four months later in April, after both films were shot and edited simultaneously.
For more on the film, feast your eyes on the new issue of Total Film when it hits shelves and digital newsstands on Thursday, October 12.