Zack Snyder’s New Sci-Fi Remains a Flop Despite 21M Views & 2 Spots on Netflix Top
Seems like Zack Snyder managed to break his own anti-record.
Summary:
- Zack Snyder’s sequel for his 2023’s Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire has been demonstrating truly dreadful results despite the streaming viewership success — even compared to the first movie.
- Netflix ’s recent data proves that Zack Snyder’s hopes for restoring his reputation after the 2023’s flop were quite wasted.
- The news about the movie’s unfortunate fate comes as something that will possibly become a real obstacle for the director’s future plans regarding the franchise.
Zack Snyder’s plans for expanding his epic space opera are getting grander while the franchise’s movies are getting more and more disastrous — and they can compete with each other when it comes to their total fiasco results.
Having got its release around a week ago, the director’s sequel for last year’s Rebel Moon was presumably supposed to make it up to Snyder’s career after the first film’s failure — instead, the sequel made it all even worse.
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver kicked it off with a very controversial reaction — the critics couldn’t be harsher, attributing the sequel a miserable score of 15% on Rotten Tomatoes while Netflix’s viewers actually got a big interest in it.
How Is Rebel Moon - Part Two Doing on Streaming?
It took only 3 days for the sequel to get more than 21 million views and around 44 million hours viewed. Currently, The Scargiver is on top of Netflix’s global chart, and its prequel holds #3.
Not a very reliable one, but still a success, it could’ve given the sequel further prospects than its predecessor, Part One: A Child of Fire, eventually got — but even here Snyder’s brand new movie was screwed.
According to Netflix’s data, upon its release back in 2023 Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire managed to garner 54 million viewership hours within first 3 days of being available on the platform, though the movie still didn’t escape public disgrace landing a score of 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Both movies’ catastrophic performance comes in a striking contrast with what their director has been saying recently. In his most recent interviews Zack Snyder revealed that he cherishes a hope of making at least four, or even six, movies for the Rebel Moon’s franchise in total.
So far Snyder’s big plans look pretty much unfeasible if not mythical — and even Netflix may not be ready to go for broke like this anytime soon.
Source: ComicBook