REBEL MOON - CHAPTER ONE: CHALICE OF BLOOD (2024) dir. Zack Snyder

Rebel Moon Worlds: The Motherworld

At the center of the realm lies the Motherworld, a densely populated planet, immensely old, where, over eons, successive civilisations have built atop the ruins of the previous ones. If it feels cold and impersonal, it is by design; this world is the only world in the Rebel Moon universe that hasn’t been influenced by any single actor. “The Motherworld is also a bit of a melting pot. There’s a lot of immigration from all the worlds that they’ve conquered,” Zack Snyder says. But rather than conjuring up some vibrant, cosmopolitan setting, one should instead picture a dark, urban dystopia. “I always like to say it’s like Victorian London and Blade Runner mixed up together. They’ve had to spend a lot of resources to expand as they have across the stars at this point. They’ve given so much of their attention to this expansionism, that they’ve lost sight of what’s happening down on the streets below them, as far as maintaining the infrastructure,” Snyder says. The result is a core that is definitely rotting.