It is no spoiler to say that Marvel Studios’ “Moon Knight” is unlike anything attempted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008’s “Iron Man.” Not only is it …
) who is regularly waking up in strange places with no memory of how he got there. Over the course of the first episode, he comes to realize that an alternate, and far more aggressive, personality named Marc Spector is living inside him — as is the voice of the Egyptian god Khonshu . Marc and Khonshu are at odds with a religious cult leader named Arthur Harrow , but Steven wants nothing to do with any of it, and grapples for control over his own body.
It helped enormously that much like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Moon Knight was never anywhere close to being a marquee character within the Marvel Comics landscape. “Because of its obscurity, it wasn’t like, we got to make sure we do this beat or the fans are gonna go crazy,” says Isaac. “We have a lot of freedom to figure out what is exciting for us.”
Diab says he and Goher put together a 200-page pitch document covering every aspect of how they’d approach the production. “The moment we’re done, I told her, ‘We’re going to get this job or there’s something wrong with the world,'” he says with a smile. “You always shoot the pyramids in the desert,” he says. “If you pan a little bit, the pyramids are in the middle of the city! No one likes that shot. You can see skyscrapers. It’s 20 million people living there. It’s one of the cities that never sleeps. So showing all that was very important for me.” It was also not lost on Diab that he is the first Arab director for Marvel Studios.
In his recounting of his alternate identities, also, Oxnam turned to fantastical, child-like imagery. “He described a castle and a witch that lives on a hill,” he says. “The language is already very heightened and dreamlike, and so it really lent itself to this genre.
“I covered my trailer with all sorts of ‘Moon Knight’ art from the comics,” Isaac says. “It is a really dark, terrifying aesthetic. In a way we had to kind of go past the boundary to figure out what it was. It’s like, ‘OK, that’s a little too much blood! That’s a little too much sounds of organs coming out! Let’s pull that back a little bit.'”
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