Zack Snyder Doesn’t ‘Have a Rebuttal’ to Critics Hating ‘Rebel Moon’: ‘It Doesn’t Seem Like There’s Much in It That Would Warrant Such Visceral Responses’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Rebel Moon” star Sofia Boutella made headlines earlier this month when she told Vulture that critics bashing on Zack Snyder‘s space epic impacted her emotionally.

The same wasn’t exactly true for Snyder. The writer-director recently spoke to Empire magazine ahead of the second “Rebel Moon” film coming to streaming and said he doesn’t have much of a reaction to the negative reviews for “Part One.” He seems a bit perplexed over how anything in the first “Rebel Moon” could warrant such hostile reviews. “I don’t really have a rebuttal to the reviews,” Snyder said. “For whatever reason, the reaction to my movies is very polarizing, and it always has been.

The movie, it doesn’t seem like there’s that much in it that would warrant such visceral responses.” “Rebel Moon” started as a “Star Wars” pitch that Snyder originally offered to Lucasfilm.

The film stars Boutella as a former soldier who recruits warriors across the universe to fight back against the evil Imperium when her farming colony is threatened. “I always thought that I was fully armed to take on those punches, and then I read the critics that came down on ‘Rebel Moon’ and it really affected me,” Boutella said about the extremely negative reviews. “I’m just gonna be honest about it.