Moon Knight trailer: Oscar Isaac does the superhero thing—sort of—for Disney Plus
Isaac plays Marc Spector, a vigilante who, yes, throws little boomerangs shaped like moons.
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Oscar Isaac is no stranger to the superhero game, having previously done his time in the CGI-and-makeup slathered trenches as the titular bad guy in 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse. But now we’re finally getting to see what Isaac can do as a good guy—sort of—in the new trailer for Disney+’s upcoming
Moon Knight show.
For the unfamiliar—whomsoever that might be—the backstory of Marvel vigilante Moon Knight is pretty simple: He’s just a former CIA agent turned international mercenary who gets resurrected by an Egyptian god in order to use his dissociative identity disorder to fight crime by throwing little boomerangs that are shaped like moons. It’s about as simple as comic book narratives get.
“I have a sleep disorder,” Isaac says in the eerie trailer. “I can’t tell the difference between my waking life and dreams.”
The series stars Isaac as Marc Spector and his various other personalities, delving into at least some of the grim and complex character work that made the Moon Knight comics a fondly remembered underdog in the Marvel world over the years. His co-stars on the series include Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy.
Moon Knight (the series) was created by Jeremy Slater, whose recent credits include The Umbrella Academy and Fox’s Exorcist TV show. The series is set to run for six episodes in its initial run; Marvel god-king Kevin Feige has said the character will likely crossover into the MCU proper at some point. (Given that Spector occasionally runs with vampire hunter Blade on Marvel’s occult-focused team of oddballs, The Midnight Sons, it’s not impossible to imagine he might pop up in the Mahershala Ali Blade movie currently in the works.)
Last week, it was rumored that the series would land on the streamer much sooner than expected and the trailer has officially confirmed the release date of March 30.
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Here’s an unedited one that’s also good:
That’s from the Bendis run, right? Maybe I should read that.
Probably. Bendis has a bad rep cause he’s bad at marquee team comics, generally, but I don’t know that he’s ever had a run on a solo, street level character that wasn’t solid gold. His Daredevil and USM runs were solid gold and I’ve heard only good about his MK.
I like Bendis. He’s not one of my top five comic book writers, but definitely a top ten. He’s sort of like Warren Ellis-lite, only without any harassment allegations and other creepy stuff.
Whomever.
“An once Avenger”?
Okay, these are legitimately funny.
This has to be some god awful 90’s or early 00 comics right? Spidey didn’t join the avengers till after 95 (I quit around that time because of Clone Wars).Now if I knew Moonight would want money from Dracula, then I would have kept on reading comics!
Nah, someone just edited the bubbles to add that stuff.
Damn it, that would have made him more interesting to me!
People laugh about that, but there was the time he covered himself with bones strapped to his costume with mummy wrappings to fight ghosts. And it worked.
Of course it worked. Khonshu told him it would. Also: Bird hat!
The punisher as a stand-in for the hard-nosed skeptic bros doesn’t really work in a universe that’s totally haunted and full of gods and magic.
God help me, I love this goofy bastard. Easily the upcoming MCU project I’m most excited for.
if “random bullshit go” isn’t a line uttered in the series I’m out.
this shit is gonna fucking rip
This seems to take a bigger page out of Lemire’s run than anything and I think that’s great. Wonder if the endgame will be him developing the Mr. Knight persona to tie all the other ones together.
Cor blimey Mary Poppins what a trailer.
I always wanted to like Moon Knight in the comics but he has been damned to third string status and a seemingly constant change of writers and narrative.As far as Oscar Isaac goes, I don’t get it.
The hero we really need right now is Moon Roach, dropping giant stone moons on rich people.
I think they missed out on the opportunity to use the character as a hero who mocks his enemies by wiggling his bare bottom at them.
Can’t wait for Isaac to deliver MK’s signature line!
That’s the same face I make when I hear there’s going to be another Marvel show or movie.