How Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo Went From ‘The Green Knight’ to Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’

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“Moon Knight.”Palermo has been making waves on the indie scene over the last few years with work on films like “A Ghost Story” and “You’re Next,” and it’s precisely that connection that put him on the radar of “Moon Knight” directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.“I was invited by Aaron and Justin to do an interview, and we have a lot of mutual friends.

I believe I was recommended by David Lowery to them,” Palermo said of his “Green Knight” director in an interview with TheWrap. “And then I think they’d seen ‘You’re Next’ and a bunch of other things and we hit it off quite well.

I interviewed and then only a few weeks later I was on a plane to Budapest and beginning this journey.”That journey involved pulling Marvel fully into the horror realm, with Palermo shooting the show’s fourth episode in which Grant (Isaac) and Layla (May Calamawy) descend into a tomb and come toe-to-toe with the undead.“That was a fun, very genre-hopping episode of being kind of ‘Indiana Jones’ and then being a horror movie,” Palermo recalled, adding that while he looked at “Indiana Jones” and the Stephen Sommers “Mummy” film for inspiration, he also looked at other shows and films to discover what he didn’t want to do.“It’s often I need to find things that I don’t want to do, then I can position myself against it.

Sometimes when I look at something that’s really successful, it’s hard for me to even figure out why it’s successful. It’s not always about lighting, there’s other alchemy involved that’s hard to really put your finger on.