Even earlier than the primary iteration of its first movie got here out, it was clear Zack Snyder has been considering long-term in the case of Rebel Moon. Extra films, a cell sport, comics, even TTRPGs–if there’s a medium that might maintain a slice of his science-fantasy epic, Snyder’s decided to convey it there. Unsurprisingly, that features a podcast, which takes after the moviees and brings a number of high-profile actors alongside for the trip.
Particularly, the narrative fiction podcast Seneschal: A Rebel Moon Story will inform the story of the unique Jimmy, a robotic voiced within the movie by Anthony Hopkins. Set centuries earlier than the flicks, the prequel focuses on a pair of inventors tasked by the king Ulmer to make him a warrior knight that’ll assist him preserve management of the universe. In-universe, Jimmys had been made as guards for the royalty of the Motherworld, however you know the way it’s. A robotic constructed for violencen ultimately finds somebody (often a girl) that offers them a soul and spurs them into heroism. On this occasion, it’s Fallout’s Ella Purnell as Raina, in what’s billed as “story of creation, ambition, religion, and betrayal.”
Alongside Purnell, the solid additionally consists of Misplaced’s Naveen Andrews and Alfred Enoch (The right way to Get Away with Homicide) as inventors Grigory and Adwin, Peter Serafinowicz (John Wick 2) as Bartholomew, and Jason Isaacs as Ulmer himself. For those who’re a Insurgent head who’s tremendous massive on the lore, this’ll certainly be your jam, significantly because it’s one other addition to the would-be franchise past the extended and renamed (and supposedly gorier) cuts hitting in early August. For anybody else, possibly it’ll be an fascinating take heed to see how Snyder’s work fares in new format and with out his signature visible type.
Seneschal will hit podcast platforms on July 29 and wrap on September 2.
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