"Rebel Moon, was an ambitious two-part space opera..."

It was a failed Star Wars script that failed as a stand alone film.

He's getting a small budget because he's a Bollywood director working in Hollywood and the script is surely a "re-imagining" of someone else's work. Again.

1) He's a glorified "Bollywood" director: His entire career is making B-tier versions of everyone else's ideas.

2) Y'all drool over him waaaaay too much for him to not be an investor.