Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire debuts on Netflix at #1 in the top ten. Sofia Boutella stars as Kora, a young woman on a quest to make a stand against a fictional tyrannical military group called Imperium in this sci-fi adventure. 

Despite the film sitting at #1 on Netflix, critics have negatively reviewed the film, with a 24% on the Rotten Tomatometer. The audience gave it a fresh 69%. Its intergalactic narrative has also opened the floor for comparisons to beloved sci-fi franchises such as Dune and Star Wars, though writer Kurt Johnstad brushes it off. According to him and Snyder, The Rebel Moon universe was born from an idea back in college. Johnstad tells Variety, “Zack [Snyder] is trying to do something very different here that really hasn’t been done in a long time. This isn’t an IP. This is an original story. It’s being created by hundreds if not thousands of technicians. That’s a really bold thing.” 

After having its limited theatrical release, Rebel Moon streamed on Netflix shortly after with a PG-13 rating, though Snyder confirmed there was an R-rated version before it was cut. “I think that the director’s cut sort of contains a slightly more sort of sci-fi, deconstructive element. Because for me, one of the things that I was tackling in, sort of conceptually, when I was thinking about it, was a way to have the irony of something like heavy metal, something super violent, super sexual, super visually gigantic in a movie where it has no business belonging in a movie like this,” Snyder explained to ComicBook.com about the Director’s Cut.