Via Starwars.com:

While Star Wars Rebels has been on the air a few months now, it’s largely taken its inspirations from other works from the Lucasfilm pantheon like Indiana Jones and Star Wars itself, but the episode “Out of Darkness” gave us a brilliant homage to the 2000 science fiction film Pitch Black, directed by David Twohy.

Pitch Black tells the story of the passengers and crew of a commercial transport marooned on a mysteriously abandoned planet. The film highlights each of the people on the ship as they try to keep their secrets and survive on a planet where nocturnal creatures reign supreme. To make matters worse, they discover that their time is running out before the planet is consumed by a month-long eclipse.

“Out of Darkness” sees Hera and Sabine marooned on a base, long abandoned by Republic forces. They were there to pick up supplies provided to them by the mysterious “Fulcrum,” but their ship is in a state of disrepair, thanks to mistakes made by Zeb and Ezra. As passing asteroids cause miniature eclipses, they discover that the base was most likely abandoned due to the vicious creatures called fyrnocks. These beasts come out in the dark and are hungry for the crew of the Ghost.

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