Moon Knight gets a new tv spot, as we get closer to the release of this brutal tv series
The Superbowl means so much to many sports fans, but for the rest of the world, it is a chance to enjoy some movie trailers and the occasional interesting commercial. Marvel already dropped the full trailer for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, but they also dropped a new tv spot for Moon Knight.
Moon Knight might just be something more from Marvel, but there is a lot that the studio is putting behind it, especially if the comments from Kevin Keige and series star Oscar Isaac are to be believed. These quotes are taken from Empire, as part of their feature in their latest issue.
Fans of the character will know that he is a much darker and sharper character, which goes against the quippy nature of the MCU, as explained below.
“He’s brutal,” Kevin Feige tells Empire, citing the streaming service as a space to expand what an MCU story can be. “It’s been fun to work with Disney+ and see the boundaries shifting on what we’re able to do. 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.”
Even series star Oscar Isaac, who first appeared in a Marvel movie with the film X-Men Apocalypse, the chance to play a character like Moon Knight was more about the character growth, outside of the costume.
“Often on these big movies it can feel like you’re building the plane on the runway,” Isaac tells Empire. “The idea of getting back to ‘handmade’ films, character studies… I was desperate for that feeling.” “It felt ‘handmade’,” he says of the Disney+ series. “And it’s the first legitimate Marvel character-study since Iron Man. I thought, ‘Maybe I can hijack this thing. Maybe this is the chance to do something really fucking nutty on a major stage.’”
The story follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
Moon Knight premieres on Disney+ on March 30 and will be the first show for the MCU on the platform, not connected to an existing character we know from the movies.
