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Netflix showcased the first look at footage from Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon during their Tudum event.

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is being teased as one of Netflix’s most ambitious films of all time, and the first film of the two-part saga is set to hit Netflix on December 22nd, just in time for Christmas. So far, we’ve only gotten bits and pieces of footage, but Snyder used Netflix’s Tudum event to reveal a bit more footage via a behind-the-scenes featurette, which gives us a good idea of the movie’s scale before we get the first full trailer.

Here’s the official synopsis: Rebel Moon is a Seven Samurai–inspired space epic about a distant galactic colony that comes under threat from the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. They send Sofia Boutella on a mission in order to find allies who can help them survive. The film stars a murderer’s row of talent alongside Boutella, including Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michael Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Cary Elwes, Alfonso Herrera, Jena Malone, and Sir Anthony Hopkins as (of course) the voice of sentient battle robot Jimmy.

According to previous reports, Snyder’s Rebel Moon began life as a 174-page script. Snyder made a compromise when Netflix asked him to keep the film under two hours. He decided that it would be two parts, with the second half shot simultaneously. Snyder releases two versions of each film. One is family-friendly, and the other has a more R-rated edge. Why not release different versions of a movie? Why not issue various cuts of a movie?

Hopefully, we’ll have a full Rebel Moon trailer soon, but this featurette does whet the appetite.