Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Rebel Moon: Part 1 – A Child of Fire.
At the top of Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire, Kora and her band of rebels defeats Admiral Noble, however a cliffhanger ending revealing Noble’s resurrection units up for an excellent greater battle within the sequel, Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver, on April nineteenth, 2024. Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire is the most recent franchise launched by Zack Snyder and Netflix. From a screenplay by Snyder, Shay Hatten, and Kurt Johnstad, Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire options performances from Sofia Boutella, Ed Skrein, Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, and extra.
When the Imperium involves a small farming neighborhood on Veldt demanding they feed the imperial struggle machine, a former Imperial soldier, Kora (Sofia Boutella), seeks warriors who might help her defend her new house from the tyranny of Admiral Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) and Regent Balisarius (Fra Fee). After gaining passage from a bounty hunter, Kai (Charlie Hunnam), Kora recruits former General Titus (Djimon Hounsou), swordfighter Nemesis (Bae Doona), warrior Tarak (Staz Nair), insurgent chief Darrian Bloodaxe (Ray Fisher), and insurgent fighter Milius (E. Duffy). The new workforce narrowly escapes the betrayal of Kai, ending in a cliffhanger set-up for a large battle in Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver.
At the top of Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire, Kai betrays the workforce, promoting them out to Admiral Noble and the Imperium. Multiple insurgent fighters die, however due to Gunnar lastly discovering a spark of braveness, lots of the workforce members handle to flee. The betrayal in the end prices Kai his personal life. Like the remainder of the rebels they recruit, Kai’s planet and folks had been devastated by the Imperium, so why did he betray them to Admiral Noble as an alternative of becoming a member of them? Even if he wasn’t considering risking his life by taking a stand alongside them, he might have allow them to struggle again on their very own.
Revenge is a significant theme of Rebel Moon and every of the characters have a really completely different relationship with it. While Titus solely joins the workforce due to the promise of revenge, Nemesis cautions “There is a difference between justice and revenge.” Kai tells Kora the Imperium devastated his planet, so he has simply as a lot purpose to be motivated by both revenge or justice, however his private trauma has made him a nihilist as an alternative. He doesn’t suppose it’s potential to defeat the Imperium, so he’s going to take advantage of any alternative to counterpoint himself, and rounding up some precious insurgent fugitives is without doubt one of the finest methods for him to do this.
The Jimmies are noble robots created way back to serve the slain king (Carey Elwes), however in his absence, they don’t have any function and refuse to take part in violence on the behest of any member of the Imperium below Regent Balisarius, even in self-defense. After Kora fights off the Imperium troopers on Veldt earlier than going to trace down the opposite warriors, Jimmy stays behind. Jimmy isn’t seen once more after Kora leaves Veldt till the very finish of Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire when he’s proven in a wheat discipline carrying a cloak and elaborate antler headgear with out rationalization.
Jimmy’s antler tease is a significant setup for Rebel Moon – Part 2: A Child of Fire the place Jimmy could have a bigger character arc, though it’s additionally a component of Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire‘s lower down PG-13 model. In the longer R-rated lower set to launch on Netflix later this yr, Jimmy could have extra scenes fleshing out his character arc on Veldt and explaining a kind of awakening his character goes by, however with out these further particulars, the scene on the finish of the film is merely a tease for what comes subsequent within the Rebel Moon sequel.
After Kai betrayed the workforce and bought them out to Admiral Noble and the Imperium, Kora defeats Noble and he falls off the platform to the planet under. If it wasn’t useless earlier than he fell, he definitely was afterward. Despite his mortal predicament, he’s taken again aboard the Imperium Dreadnought, The King’s Gaze, the place he’s hooked as much as a machine that brings him again to life. The actual nature of what occurs to him isn’t clear, however Deborah Snyder teased some kind of superior medical know-how throughout Screen Rant’s go to to the Rebel Moon set, and Noble is proven plugging himself into some type of mysterious machine earlier within the film.
