How ‘Moon Knight’ Sends Marvel Studios Into the Unknown: ‘We’re Creating a Whole New Thing’
variety.comMarvel Studios’ “Moon Knight” is unlike anything attempted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008’s “Iron Man.” Not only is it Marvel’s first Disney Plus series that doesn’t focus on already established characters, the first four episodes of the show, which Variety has seen, contain not a single spoken reference to the MCU.
No one talks about Thanos or the Snap, Spider-Man or Wakanda. There are no mentions of the Avengers or the Eternals, infinity stones or multiverses.
And not a single familiar face — not Doctor Strange or Wanda Maximoff, Captain Marvel or Shang-Chi — makes an appearance.When the team behind “Moon Knight” set out to make it, however, walling off the MCU “wasn’t a goal, ironically,” says director and executive producer Mohamed Diab. “Moon Knight” follows a nebbishy London museum gift shop employee named Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) who is regularly waking up in strange places with no memory of how he got there.
Over the course of the first episode, he comes to realize that an alternate, and far more aggressive, personality named Marc Spector (also Oscar Isaac) is living inside him — as is the voice of the Egyptian god Khonshu (F.
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