How ‘John Wick’ Inspired the Action of New Marvel Series ‘Moon Knight’
thewrap.com“Moon Knight” (the first episode just premiered on Disney+). Diab is an Egyptian filmmaker known for his small-scale dramas that blur the line between truth and fiction. “Moon Knight,” on the other hand, is a horror-tinged fantasy adventure about a nerd who works in a museum gift shop (Oscar Isaac) who discovers he has multiple identities – and one of them is a masked vigilante possessed by the spirit of an ancient Egyptian god. (It gets wild.)TheWrap spoke with Diab about the 200-page document that he prepared for “Moon Knight,” how his aesthetic meshed well with the tone and spirit of the character and the challenges of introducing a new hero to the already overstuffed MCU.You said that you created a 200-page document that you had prepared going into this.
What was in there? Did any of it make it into the show?First of all, the 200 pages are all pictures. It’s not something that you need a year to read.
It’s just like … you can look at them. Once you see them, it’s very fast. But I moved three years ago to Hollywood. I was offered so many jobs.
But this is the first one that I connected to that much. Usually I work with my wife, Sarah Gohar, who is my producer and co-writer.
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