Zack Snyder's Snyder's Netflix sci-fi movie Rebel Moon commenced production in late April 2022, with the project to be a two-part sci-fi epic filmed back-to-back. Though only a general outline of what Snyder has planned for Rebel Moon is available, it's not hard to see how it could've fit into the Star Wars pantheon had it been greenlit in its original form.
In Rebel Moon, a colony in another galaxy faces the conquest of the galactic warlord Regent Balisarius (Rupert Friend). This leads a young woman named Kora (Sofia Boutella) to recruit warriors from neighboring planets to help the colony in their stand against the invasion. While Snyder has reworked Rebel Moon to act as an original story after it was declined as a Star Wars film, Rogue One probably gives the closest similarity to Snyder's modified version of Rebel Moon among existing Star Wars movies.
Rogue One takes place just before very memorable villain role of Darth Vader, Rogue One is largely removed from the core Jedi and Sith elements of Star Wars. Its protagonists are more ground-level rebels and warriors like Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), and Chirrut Imwe (Donnie Yen). By all outward appearances, Rebel Moon seems to be centered on protagonists of a similar nature.
The description of Sofia Boutella's Kora reads as a reluctant heroine forced to adopt the mantle of a leader in a trial by fire. Ray Fisher's Blood Axe also sounds like a similarly formidable warrior as Chirrut Imwe, and reinforces the idea that Snyder's force of heroes assembled against Balisarius is focused primarily on very human rebel heroes. Other characters like Balisarius and General Titus (Djimon Hounsou) carry the same intergalactic military aura that's a staple of Star Wars, while the conflict itself seems to have similar stakes as that of Rogue One.
The entire Rebel Moon even better outside of Star Wars.
