"Moon Knight" Head Writer Talks About Batman Comparisons And The Role Of Egyptology In The Series
On March 30, the first episode of Moon Knight, the new series produced by Marvel Studios based on one of the most beloved antiheroes of the House of Ideas, will arrive on the Disney+ streaming platform. Notably, this show is heavily inspired by the Indiana Jones franchise.
In Moon Knight, Steven Grant played by Oscar Isaac will discover he suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID) and shares his body with mercenary Marc Spector, who leads him to embark on a journey towards a deadly mystery among the mighty Gods of Egypt.
According to Slater, the "Dark Knight vs Moon Knight" was never a comparison he was interested in making.
"Batman has an 80-year head start on us: you're not going to beat Batman at his own game. We've seen that side of Moon Knight as a playboy philanthropist, throwing moon-shaped boomerangs, flying around in a moon-shaped plane, but I don't think that's the coolest possible version of the character," he said.
Slater also revealed that Marvel Studios hired an Egyptology expert to expand the ideas behind the series by drawing on real-life studies of pyramids and Egyptian mythology.
“He told us all these crazy details," he shared. "Like, inside the Great Pyramid of Giza there’s a chamber that’s inaccessible, but large enough to contain the Statue of Liberty. And no one knows what’s in it. Those kinds of wild, real-life facts informed everything we wrote.”
Moon Knight is written by Jeremy Slater (The Umbrella Academy) and Beau DeMayo (The Witcher) and directed by Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The series stars Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant aka Marc Spector, Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, May Calamawy as Layla, Gaspard Ulliel as Anton Mogart aka Midnight Man, Dina Shihab and Loic Mabanza.
In Moon Knight, Steven Grant played by Oscar Isaac will discover he suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID) and shares his body with mercenary Marc Spector, who leads him to embark on a journey towards a deadly mystery among the mighty Gods of Egypt.
Source: Marvel Studios
According to Slater, the "Dark Knight vs Moon Knight" was never a comparison he was interested in making.
"Batman has an 80-year head start on us: you're not going to beat Batman at his own game. We've seen that side of Moon Knight as a playboy philanthropist, throwing moon-shaped boomerangs, flying around in a moon-shaped plane, but I don't think that's the coolest possible version of the character," he said.
Source: Marvel Studios/Warner Bros. Pictures
Slater also revealed that Marvel Studios hired an Egyptology expert to expand the ideas behind the series by drawing on real-life studies of pyramids and Egyptian mythology.
“He told us all these crazy details," he shared. "Like, inside the Great Pyramid of Giza there’s a chamber that’s inaccessible, but large enough to contain the Statue of Liberty. And no one knows what’s in it. Those kinds of wild, real-life facts informed everything we wrote.”
Moon Knight is written by Jeremy Slater (The Umbrella Academy) and Beau DeMayo (The Witcher) and directed by Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The series stars Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant aka Marc Spector, Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, May Calamawy as Layla, Gaspard Ulliel as Anton Mogart aka Midnight Man, Dina Shihab and Loic Mabanza.
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