Producers on the upcoming Insurgent Moon movie have opened up on how they really feel about Zack Snyder‘s sci-fi movie franchise now not being hooked up to Star Wars.

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Final week, Netflix launched the trailer for Snyder’s Insurgent Moon, confirming its December 22 launch date on the platform. December’s movie, titled Insurgent Moon: A Baby of Hearth, would be the first of two movies within the franchise. Half two, titled Insurgent Moon: The Scargiver, is anticipated to launch someday in 2024.

In 2013, when Snyder was gearing as much as launch Man Of Metal, information broke that he was growing a Star Wars film impressed by Akira Kurosawa. Nevertheless, in Might 2021, Snyder distanced himself from the Star Wars franchise, saying Insurgent Moon can be its personal factor: “I’ve been engaged on it away from the Star Wars universe, alone, as a sci-fi factor… It’s nonetheless a sci-fi factor. It’s the identical story. Now, I’m simply going to let Star Wars be Star Wars.”

Now, two producers on the movie have spoken about their ideas of Insurgent Moon‘s separation from Star Wars. Zack Snyder’s spouse Deborah Snyder advised Slash Movie: “As soon as, it was a Star Wars movie, and I by no means wished it to be. I bear in mind, I stated to Zack, ‘I simply really feel like your arms are going to be tied a lot in what that IP is,’ though it sort of lived outdoors of it. So I used to be sort of completely happy when that fell aside, as a result of I at all times felt prefer it was higher.”

Eric Newman added: “I bear in mind [Zack] calling me in some unspecified time in the future, and this has bought to be 15 years in the past, saying, ‘I’m considering of doing Seven Jedi, within the Star Wars universe.’ And I used to be like, ‘Oh, that’s a cool thought.’ Then, a number of years later, he calls me and goes, ‘You realize, I feel it could possibly be a tv present.’ I’m like, ‘Sure, let’s do that! Fuck Star Wars! Let’s do that as a TV present.’

Insurgent Moon’s forged is led by Sofia Boutella as fearsome warrior Kora, alongside Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Cleopatra Coleman, Jena Malone, Ed Skrein, Fra Charge and Anthony Hopkins, who performs an android on a journey of self-discovery.