At the end of this year Netflix will kick off Rebel Moonthe science fiction universe created by Zack Snyder, which along with the two films by the director of 300 and The Justice League count on novels, comics, podcasts and other worksas a cooperative video game and a board role-playing game. The latter has been cancelled after months of work, and the Service streaming has been sued thus.
The company Evil Genius Gamesa publisher known for Everyday Heroes and TTRPGs set in movies like Escape From New York and Pacific Rimstarted working with Netflix early 2023 with the aim of publishing the game around the release of Rebel Moon Part 1: The Fire Girlwhich arrives on the platform on December 22.
However, Netflix unilaterally terminated the agreement in May because, supposedly, Evil Genius Games had broken the confidentiality agreement, and demanded that the studio stop using “Netflix’s intellectual property”; They allege that the company offered them $50,000 to “basically walk away, forgive Netflix for their pretextual hijacking of the project, and deliver the game to them,” reads the lawsuit shared by IGN.
Netflix cited as its motivation for ending the contract that the studio had broken the confidentiality agreement by talk about the project at a sector fair showing conceptual arts not approved by the service streamingbut the study states that Netflix approved those materials and there were even representatives of the company at the event, sharing them among the attendees, informs Variety.
Evil Genius Games put aside all its ongoing projects to start working on a universe in which, at that time, there was only one script, “some crude ideas about the universe Rebel Moon“ and some visual documents. The study alleges that they were the ones who They created much of the background, including the names of some alien races and planets.the lineage of main characters and a “clear timeline of how the universe of Rebel Moon“.
Zack Snyder called the RPG “immersive, intense and huge”
In total, the goal was to make a player’s guide of around 430 pages and a manual for the master of 337 pages, plus a World Bible which, in fact, was mentioned by Zack Snyder himself in a podcast, where he described the role-playing game as “crazy, very immersive, intense and huge.”
The study states that Netflix’s intention is claim sole ownership of all such content and publish it at your own expense without crediting or financially compensating Evil Genius Games. This is not the only game going on. Rebel Moon: a is in development action video game for four players by Super Evil Megacorp, the creators of Vainglory and Catalyst Black.
