Indie directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson join Oscar Isaac's Moon Knight show
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While its various Marvel film projects continue to sit around, doing not a whole hell of a lot due to their current COVID-19-dictated limbo, Disney’s TV superhero offerings continue to show a marked dedication to getting ambitiously weird. We’ve already got the twisty, sitcom-y Wandavision on our plates, and now THR reports that the company has tapped indie directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead to direct at least a few episodes of Oscar Isaac’s upcoming Moon Knight show.
If you’re familiar with Benson and Moorehead’s work, it’s likely for films like 2020's time travel/drug flick Synchronic, which saw the pair take their typical indie auteur approach to some slightly higher-budget fare (including a starring performance from MCU alum Anthony Mackie). Now they’re signing on to help Isaac with his version of one of Marvel’s weirder vigilantes, a character generally presented as “What if Batman was also sometimes a cab driver with Dissociative Identity Disorder?” Benson and Moorehead join Mohamed Diab, the Egyptian filmmaker who’s set to direct a hefty number of the show’s episodes. Meanwhile, Umbrella Academy’s Jeremy Slater will head up the show’s writing room.
Moon Knight is expected to begin filming in March of this year.
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Indie directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson join Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight showOscar Isaac’s Moon Knight Show sounds like a movie you’d go see with friends late at night at the independent theater and throw toast at the screen while dancing in the aisles and singing along.
Not thrilled to see Moorhead and Benson slumming, but… their (excellent) movies don’t make a lot of money, so I won’t begrudge them a paycheck.
Why does this seem like them slumming to you?
Not thrilled to see Moorhead and Benson slumming…don’t make a lot of money, so I won’t begrudge them a paycheck
Because they sold out, maaaaaaannn!
Hell yeah. I haven’t seen their newest film yet, but these guys have made consistently interesting movies with little to no money, Spring is probably one of my favorite films of the last decade. And they always get weird with it, so hiring them sounds like this show is going in the right direction. And there have been so many announcements from Disney that I didn’t even realize Oscar Isaac was playing Moon Knight!
Yeah I really enjoyed The Endless (on Netflix) them doing Moon Knight makes a lot of sense. They’re really good at pulling off high concept and losing touch with reality. Interesting about Mohamed Diab doing this type of show because the other Egyptian director that immediately comes to mind is Sam Esmail.
Did you happen to see their first film Resolution before watching The Endless? The Endless is a semi-sequel but not really, thanks to the heady ideas involved Resolution is actually contained within The Endless and still continuing. I wondered how someone going in cold would perceive the “return” to the loop of Resolution without having seen the lead up.
I watched Endless first and then immediately sought out Resolution because I wanted more, so yeah, it still works.
god, Resolution is so fucking great. one of my favourite horror flicks of the decade
I wish the dialogue was slightly more polished (I think every 4th word is “fuck”), but it did really interesting things on no budget. The bits where they are watching the movies of themselves were genuinely unnerving for me.
I think the way it’s written suits the characters, who are just ordinary dudes caught up in a truly insane situation, and a big part of the movie’s appeal for me is how straightforward the characters are and their relationship to each other. But yeah, the character work is offset by some truly creepy moments
I didn’t know that about Endless. I really liked Spring, and then Endless left me a little cold (like something I should have liked, but just didn’t really) so I might need to give Resolution a try.
Lmao is there an “A list” actor who picks worse roles than Oscar Isaac? For god’s sake man get a new agent
I love Moon Knight. One of my favorites for years. I pray to Khonshu this movie is good.
Its a series, not a movie, which makes me more hopeful. 8-10 episodes or whatever gives them a lot more time to lay out the character and story and then go on weird digressions than a 2 hour movie.
Ohhh…even better! Thanks.
I hope he escapes a death trap with a can of beer!
I am probably one of the few people to see this that got that reference. Boy the Defenders run from the 70s and 80s is such an underrated slice of comic book weirdness.
My first guess seeing that picture would be “the hunky McPoyles.”
well i’m never going to be able to unsee that.
Their pedigree makes me hopeful this will go into the trippy, dark direction of Jeff Lemire and Warren Ellis’ runs.
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I’m betting that most people are in fact not familiar with them for their film Synchronic, since it has only been released in theaters so far and made just $1 million. It hits streaming on Tuesday, so maybe then some people (me for sure) will be watching it.