You’ve got to hand it to Zack Snyder‘s most dedicated fanatics, who love nothing more to hype up their exalted leader any opportunity they get, even if one half of the internet treats “Zack Snyder is the blueprint” as nothing more than an ironic meme. Conspiracy theories are par for the course, too, and the latest one is a real doozy.
Fresh from chatter that James Gunn keeps deliberately going out of his way to steal the SnyderVerse creator’s thunder any time he makes a major announcement, it’s at least refreshing to know that the current co-CEO of DC Studios has been left out of this one. Instead, though, it’s been offered that the complexion of the entire Star Wars sequel trilogy was born from the mind of the Watchmen and 300 director.
In the merest hint of defense, it’s a well-known fact that Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Rebel Moon originally began life a decade ago as a Star Wars spin-off indebted to Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and the end product likely won’t bear much difference to whatever a Zack Snyder movie set in a galaxy far, far away would have looked like.
As you can imagine, claiming that The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker‘s main narrative throughline – one that’s going to be picked up again when Daisy Ridley returns as Rey in a brand new feature-length escapade – can be credited to Snyder has opened the door to a barrage of backlash already, even though it’s easily explained away by noting Rebel Moon has always basically been Seven Samurai with a female protagonist.