First look at Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, coming this December

Over the past few years, Netflix has develop a reputation for dropping its shows and movies on viewers with relatively little build-up. After all, if everyone is already going on Netflix all the time, all you need to do is make sure they can see what’s new when they log in. But not in 2023! This year, Netflix is letting us all know nice and early when their biggest movies will release.

The streamer has just revealed its slate of notable movie releases coming this year. You can check out the entire video below, but since we’re focusing on science fiction and fantasy, and we’ll drill down on some of the most interesting.

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon gets a release date, Mille Bobby Brown is a vengeful damsel

The bigger thing that jumped out at me from this trailer is that Rebel Moon, the science fiction epic from former DC mastermind and 300 director Zack Snyder, now has a release date. Rebel Moon will hit Netflix on December 22, which is a prime position on the calendar that the streamer has often filled with big genre releases like The Witcher.

Rebel Moon originally began development as a Star Wars idea that Snyder pitched to Lucasfilm all the way back in 2005. They passed and he changed gears to develop it as an original story. As such, expect it to have some of those scrappy-space-rebels-fighting-an-empire vibes.

Here are the other big ones on the way:

• March 10: Luther: The Fallen Sun, a crime drama in which Idris Elba plays a “brilliant but disgraced London police detective [who] breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer.”
• May 12: The Mother, in which Jennifer Lopez plays an assassin who “comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she’d given up years before.”
• June 16: Extraction 2, in which Chris Hemsworth is back as Rake, an Australian mercenary who is tasked with saving the family of a dangerous Georgian crime boss from prison.
• October 13: Damsel, in which Millie Bobby Brown plays a woman who is married off to a prince only to discover that his family wants to sacrifice her to pay off an ancient debt.
• December 8: Leave the World Behind, in which Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali play the heads of two families who try to keep their loved ones alive amidst the chaos that ensues after a mass blackout.

There are plenty of other movies in there, but those are a few of the notables. Which will you be watching in 2023?

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