Rebel Moon 2's Major Character Death Explained By Zack Snyder

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Warning! Major spoilers ahead for Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver.

Summary Zack Snyder explains that Gunnar's death in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver was an early story decision.

Gunnar's death in the Netflix sequel is one of the film's most emotional moments.

Gunnar's purpose in the sequel is to bring out Kora's deeper emotions, and he represents her first love.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver director Zack Snyder explains one of the movie's biggest character deaths. Picking up after the end of Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, which hit Netflix in December, the space opera sequel sees Kora (Sofia Boutella) and her gang of fighters team with a village of peaceful farmers to fend off an incursion from the evil Imperium. The film features a prolonged battle sequence with a number of key characters meeting their ends, but perhaps the most powerful is Gunnar's (Michiel Huisman) emotional death towards the end of the film.

In a recent interview with Collider, Snyder breaks down Gunnar's death in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, explaining that the decision was made fairly early on in the process. Check out Snyder's full comment below:

Actually, from early on, because I knew what his job was as far as Kora's character is concerned, he really represents in a lot of ways the first love that she's had, made purely from choice and from her own sort of free will being in a place of independence for the first time, really, in her life. So, I think that was his job was to kind of liberate her emotionally, and I think that he was able to pull that off. And Michiel is so great at that. And again, we were talking about in the R-rated version, [in] their love scene, he really is teaching her intimacy and teaching her all these things. She knows what she's doing, I feel like, in that physical relationship, but I think that he's really bringing her into a place where it's a little bit more sensitive.

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Source: Collider