The primary trailer for Insurgent Moon: The Scargiver quietly dropped on Christmas Day, however even with 1 million views and counting, it’s unclear if Netflix received a prized present in its stocking or lump of coal.
Insurgent Moon is presently the #1 film on Netflix (accounting for 23.9M views as of first six days on the platform, in response to the now barely clear firm). It’s additionally a blemish on director Zack Snyder’s observe file; Whereas he’s not usually a essential darling, the fantasy house opera has garnered a few of the sourest critiques of his profession, hovering between Sucker Punch and Justice League (the primary try) on the Rotten Tomatoes evaluation aggregator. Is there hope for the Insurgent Moon universe?
Netflix has to hope so — not solely does the streamer have a Insurgent Moon sequel, The Scargiver, locked and loaded for spring 2024, there’s clear hope for a larger enlargement of the universe into different properties. On the very least, we’re getting an R-rated minimize of the primary movie, Insurgent Moon: A Youngster of Hearth, and a four-player co-op Insurgent Moon online game from Tremendous Evil Megacorp… ultimately.
However whereas it’s exhausting to think about “course correction” for the budding franchise — it’s Snyder’s child by and thru — the primary trailer for Insurgent Moon: The Scargiver may see enchancment. A Youngster of Hearth promised a Seven Samurai-esque staff film with a climactic battle of underdogs versus imperial scum… with out really delivering the climactic battle. With the muscle now in place, The Scargiver appears like a 3rd act of the unique pitch damaged out right into a sequel. If it’s all slo-mo motion and reference-heavy iconography swirling round in a cloud of motion, it is likely to be what Snyder was envisioning all alongside? On the very least, we’re getting much more Djimon Hounsou, which is an effective signal.
Insurgent Moon: The Scargiver will premiere on Netflix on April 19, 2024. And both earlier than or after that, we’re getting the rated-R cuts of 1 or each of the films, which is likely to be value holding out for. On the very least, Snyder says they happen in a “totally different dimension” than the PG-13 motion pictures, so there’s that.
