Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder explained the metaphor behind antagonist Atticus Noble’s blunt bone staff in the space opera movie.
Speaking with ComingSoon, Snyder was asked about creating the bone staff and how it worked in fight scenes. The filmmaker spoke about how the bone staff is meant to represent the Imperium and how it has mythological elements.
“I really love the idea. I mean, not to say it’s too heavy-handed of a metaphor, but that the Imperium is a blunt instrument,” Snyder explained. “They are not surgical. They are very heavy-handed. I just thought that this club was a hilarious weapon for Noble to have. Then, of course, it’s based on this mythological relic — long ago, baby Issa was carried across the desert by this creature that had this super long femur. That’s what that bone is. It’s almost like a Joseph-and-Mary-style story.
“But we went to that deep sort of storytelling devices that the weapons were even based on mythological elements that you wouldn’t even learn in the movie, but that was really fun. I do love that bone staff.”
What happens in Rebel Moon?
“A peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius,” reads the film’s synopsis. “The desperate civilians dispatch Kora, a young woman who has a mysterious past, to seek out warriors from nearby planets to help them challenge the regent.”
Rebel Moon – Part One is now playing in limited theaters and is available to stream through Netflix.
