The director’s cuts of the first installments of the Rebel Moon saga landed on Netflix with an awkward fizzle. Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, the first part of Zack Snyder’s passion project , has a run time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, and was released in cinemas at the end of 2023, before it was dropped on the streaming platform on December 22. The follow-up, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver premiered in April with a run time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, and was watched more than 21million times in the first few days after it released.
Although viewers clearly pressed play in their droves when the original movies came out, the same cannot be said for Zack’s versions of both offerings when they appeared on Netflix on August 2. According to Netflix figures for the week of July 29 to August 4, the director’s cut of Part One (aka Chalice of Blood) – run time 3 hours, 24 minutes – and Part Two (aka Curse of Forgiveness) – run time 2 hours 53 minutes – did not make the top 10. Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie was in the top spot and was viewed more than 12million times, with 18.
5million hours watched. Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Trolls Band Together, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and The Bad Guys were also in the list while the Marksman rounded out the top 10 with around 3.6M views.
This means that, despite the fanfare that both cuts received, they were both viewed less than 3.6million times each, and earned less than 6.4million hours watched.
Man.