Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon will now star two-time Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins as a *checks notes* "sentient battle robot".
New details released by Netflix confirm that the 84-year-old actor will be joining the upcoming sci-fi epic in a rather unexpected role.
“Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins is joining the cast of Zack Snyder’s new sci-fi epic,” they revealed. “He’ll be playing exactly the role you’d expect from such a renowned thespian: the voice of Jimmy, a sentient battle robot who once defended a slain king.”
That's right – Sir Anthony Hopkins is a sentient battle bot. He’s an interesting choice, too – his voice certainly lends a bit of gravitas to the mysterious battle robot, but quite how a mechanized Welshman fits into the sider scheme of things remains to be seen.
Rebel Moon began life as a Star Wars project that Snyder pitched to Lucasfilm before Disney bought the company back in 2012. The movie was planned as a follow-up to the events of Return of the Jedi but while it never happened, Snyder since repurposed his ideas for a new Netflix sci-fi flick. Given the Star Wars connection, it sounds as though the Hopkinator is more of a K-2SO or IG-88 than a C-3PO… but we’re not exactly certain what direction Hopkins’ character will take.
The ambitious project began filming on April 19, 2022, with Snyder giving us our first glimpse of the upcoming sci-fi flick in the process. Although Rebel Moon won’t be part of the galaxy far, far away, Snyder nevertheless has plans, saying that he wants to make “a romantic sci-fi film on a scale that is just frankly as big as you can make a movie.”
The story begins with a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that’s threatened by the forces of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. The colonists send out a lone champion, Kora (Sofia Boutella), to assemble a fighting force from the warriors of neighboring planets to join them and take a stand.
Rebel Moon stars Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Ray Fisher, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Doona Bae, and Sir Anthony Hopkins. Zack Snyder directed the movie based on a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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New details released by Netflix confirm that the 84-year-old actor will be joining the upcoming sci-fi epic in a rather unexpected role.
“Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins is joining the cast of Zack Snyder’s new sci-fi epic,” they revealed. “He’ll be playing exactly the role you’d expect from such a renowned thespian: the voice of Jimmy, a sentient battle robot who once defended a slain king.”
That's right – Sir Anthony Hopkins is a sentient battle bot. He’s an interesting choice, too – his voice certainly lends a bit of gravitas to the mysterious battle robot, but quite how a mechanized Welshman fits into the sider scheme of things remains to be seen.
Rebel Moon began life as a Star Wars project that Snyder pitched to Lucasfilm before Disney bought the company back in 2012. The movie was planned as a follow-up to the events of Return of the Jedi but while it never happened, Snyder since repurposed his ideas for a new Netflix sci-fi flick. Given the Star Wars connection, it sounds as though the Hopkinator is more of a K-2SO or IG-88 than a C-3PO… but we’re not exactly certain what direction Hopkins’ character will take.
The ambitious project began filming on April 19, 2022, with Snyder giving us our first glimpse of the upcoming sci-fi flick in the process. Although Rebel Moon won’t be part of the galaxy far, far away, Snyder nevertheless has plans, saying that he wants to make “a romantic sci-fi film on a scale that is just frankly as big as you can make a movie.”
The story begins with a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that’s threatened by the forces of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. The colonists send out a lone champion, Kora (Sofia Boutella), to assemble a fighting force from the warriors of neighboring planets to join them and take a stand.
Rebel Moon stars Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Ray Fisher, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Doona Bae, and Sir Anthony Hopkins. Zack Snyder directed the movie based on a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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