OK, I came across the trailer for RM Part 2. It ends with Ed Skrein's and Sofia Boutella's characters meeting in what looks like a parlay, and Skrein asks "What are we hoping to accomplish here?" She replies "Same thing as the last time we met - to kill you". I also came across an EW article where Snyder explains why he decided to resurrect Skrein's character:
For Snyder, it was logical to carry over the same main villain from the first half of Rebel Moon to the second, citing “the mechanics of having the Dreadnought being on the edge of the Motherworld’s domain. That would mean they would have to go all the way back and get another guy.”
Logical??? WTF?? This is a universe that HE created, and his reason for resurrecting a villain is that it would take the ship too long to go all the way back to its home planet to get another captain? The Imperium couldn't, oh I don't know, give his 2nd in command a field promotion, or reassign their next best captain from a closer ship and have him rendez-vous with the Dreadnaught? I'm assuming there's more than one of those things out there, or is that thing Zack's Death Star?
More from that same article:
Even when Rebel Moon was structured as a single movie, before the Snyders decided to split it in two, the director says there still would have been a Kora/Noble showdown at the halfway point before he came back for the ultimate climax. “It’s a prize fight concept,” Snyder says. “There will be a rematch!”
I guess this is an example of the deep meaning in Snyder's work that Alatar has been trying to convey to us.