Kevin Feige promises Moon Knight will hurt people very badly for you
The Oscar Isaac-starring Disney Plus series will begin brutalizing people on March 30
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a violent place. Super-powered terrorists, alien invaders, rampaging Kingos: You never know when something world-crackingly destructive might be coming around the corner.
And yet, for all that devastation and finger-snappings and whatnot, the actual violence in the various Marvel films and TV shows has tended to be on the tamer side. (With the exception, notably, of the Defenders-adjacent shows that are leaving Netflix this month.) But don’t worry, comic book fans: Moon Knight is (almost) here to hurt people in all the awful ways you want him to.
This is per Empire, which ran a profile in its most recent issue on the upcoming Disney+ show, currently scheduled to debut on March 30. That includes both a loving description of the blood that ends up covering the character’s knuckles and weapons in early promo shots (like the poster above), as well as a chat with MCU architect Kevin Feige, who declared that the protagonist of the Oscar Isaac-starring series is “brutal.”
There are moments [in the series] when Moon Knight is wailing on another character, and it is loud and brutal, and the knee-jerk reaction is, “We’re gonna pull back on this, right?” No. We’re not pulling back. There’s a tonal shift. This is a different thing. This is Moon Knight.
The Disney+ MCU shows have given Marvel a chance to play a bit more with its house tone, which usually stays pretty static in the movies (outside of James Gunn or Taika Waititi turning up the “quippiness” knob a couple of ticks when they grab the wheel). It sounds like Moon Knight will push that envelope even further, focusing as it does on man dealing simultaneously with Egyptian-themed superpowers and dissociate identity disorder, something Isaac acknowledged as complicated in that same profile.
“It is risky,” Isaac notes in the article. “He’s an obscure hero, and the things we’re dealing with are very different. But because it’s a limited series, rather than a movie, the pressure isn’t there to make sure the opening weekend is massive.”
Isaac stars in the series as Steven Grant, a mild-mannered guy who discovers he’s sharing a body with a professional mercenary who is also a super-powered vigilante, so, yeah: Complex. Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy are also set to star.
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I’ve been saying that more MCU characters should have gold accents like the comics instead of silver. Now they gave Moon Knight gold weapons when they should be silver! (He did have a gold phase in WCA, but silver is the lunar metal.) Now how’s he supposed to hurt werewolves?
You’ve heard of white gold?
This is yellow silver.
I assume this is going to be like the stunning, world-class vistas in Eternals; that is, a talking point from a mega-producer who’s well aware of the assembly line nature of these movies, who nonetheless will make sure each product plops off the assembly line without a single hitch or blemish.
“Moon Knight is going to be bloody and violent, until he makes an appearance in the next Avengers movie and, like, kicks a CGI villain down a flight of stairs or something.”
Plumberduck, coming in with the hot take that Infinity War and Homecoming have identical tonal sensibilities.
Right but is there gonna be blood? Because the MCU is pretty reluctant to show blood.
Blade’s coming. Even in PG-13, a vampire movie has to show blood at some point.
Even in PG-13, a vampire movie has to show blood at some point.
So what you’re saying is… There Will Be Blood
Do vampires drink milkshakes?
Probably lactose intolerant.
Do vampires drink milkshakes?
No but they drink people who drink milkshakes.
That’s a hell of a straw!
True. Blood is a pretty prominent character motivation.
Blood, Simple motivation.
John Walker killing the Flag Smasher with Captain America’s shield is a notable exception, and not coincidentally was probably the best moment in that entire series, and one of the best overall in the recent Marvel TV series.So hopefully they are willing to lean into that more now.
And even that was very little blood! He bashed that guy to death! If it Netflix blood would be spurting everywhere. The blood there was important for the symbolism.
Isaac stars in the series as Steven Grant Marc Spector.ftfy. Grant is a persona, Spector is his core identity.
Fucking thank you
If one personality becomes dominate for an extended period, it can be considered to be the new default.
I just hope they don’t change any of the characters race or gender
And yet somehow I doubt this is going to go as far as Deadpool (non-MCU film I know) who actually dismembered people and made words out of the body parts.
M-O-O-N, that spells severed penises.
The real question is are they gonna stop all the SJW/progressive virtue-signaling bullshit.
Anyone believes this, I got some magic beans to sell you
A conversation I recently saw:“So he’s like a mummy Batman?”“No, it makes way less sense.”
This is disney+. It’s not going to be very brutal.
I don’t even know what the headline is supposed to mean. Doesn’t matter, though. Moon Knight is such a D-list character, I suppose any way Feige can drum up story fodder has to be beneficial.