Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon To Live On In Comics | popgeeks.com

Despite the hojillion dollars Netflix spent on it, Zack Snyder’s duo of Rebel Moon movies failed to become the next Star Wars like he wanted it to be. There was a fair amount of pre-release hype, but after the first movie came out most people decided it just wasn’t their thing. And ordinarily that would be the end of the story, but Titan Comics has decided to extend things a little further.

Comics, you see, don’t need a large budget or even a large audience to sustain themselves. The number of fans Rebel Moon has at the moment is rather small, but it just might be enough to make this prequel miniseries profitable: presenting Rebel Moon: Nemesis, the backstory of the cyborg sword master played in the movies by Doona Bae.

Rebel Moon: Nemesis was written by Gail Simone, and——–erk, better tone down the snark. Simone is a really nice person. If this is the kind of job she wants, then…more power to her, I guess. She explains why she was drawn to this project:

“I feel like this story was a little bit destined to happen, somehow. My family and I were watching ‘Rebel Moon’ and really enjoying it, and I just immediately focused on Nemesis,” Simone says. “I loved the badassery of her, but also the way she addressed grief, and recognized it in others. I just was completely smitten with her, and I actually said to my family: Man, I would love to write her someday. Well, someone was listening because I get this message that Zack would like to talk to me about writing that exact character. Who am I to argue with fate? She’s a powerful, powerful character, she leaps off the page (and screen) and I cannot even explain how much I enjoyed playing in this sandbox.”

Simone’s take on Nemesis’ backstory will play out like a Western, Titan teases. It’ll be “an action-packed and badass story in the style of a revenge western, in which an innocent woman finds herself in the path of Imperium soldiers who slaughter her family.”

Note that this is actually the second Rebel Moon mini that Titan has released. The first, subtitled “House of the Bloodaxe,” was written by Snyder himself. The first issue of Rebel Moon: Nemesis goes on sale July 16.