The highly anticipated new Marvel TV series, Moon Knight, is now live on Disney+ with its first of 6 episodes for season 1!
I wasn't too familiar with who Moon Knight was prior to the announcements from Marvel Studios, but I did my research shortly after and became very interested. Then the trailers began to drop and I became excited.
WHo is Moon Knight?
Moon Knight emerged from a comic book era that fans refer to as the Bronze Age, when a new wave of writers and artists who had grown up as science-fiction, fantasy and superhero fans began introducing more mature themes and story lines to the medium. Created by the writer Doug Moench and the artist Don Perlin, Moon Knight debuted in a 1975 issue of the horror-adventure comic Werewolf by Night as a mercenary out to capture the series’s title monster. With his white mask, white hood and long white cape, the character cut such a striking figure that other Marvel writers and artists soon started dropping him into their stories.
In 1980, Moench and the artist Bill Sienkiewicz introduced a solo Moon Knight comic, on which they collaborated until 1983. They fleshed out the origin story, establishing a lot of the lore that has survived through decades of reboots and retcons. In their version, a soldier of fortune named Marc Spector is killed on a mission in North Africa but revived by the spirit of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu (voiced by F. Murray Abraham on TV). He becomes an agent of justice, operating in and around New York City under different aliases: as the mercenary Spector; as a man named Steven Grant, who invests Spector’s money and becomes a billionaire; and as the cabdriver Jake Lockley. For later versions of the character, other writers gave him dissociative identity disorder, and the aliases became separate personalities.
In Disney’s “Moon Knight,” Isaac begins as Steven Grant, who is not a billionaire but rather a meek gift shop employee at a British museum. He also has frequent blackouts. By the end of the first episode, he begins to understand that whenever he is unconscious, his body is being inhabited by the troubled mercenary Marc Spector.
Source(great summary): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/arts/television/moon-knight-disney-marvel.html
Fast forward to today. Marvel delivers a fun and suspenseful 1st episode to what seems like a wild ride! I was impressed with what I saw. Not following Moon Knight in the comics back in the day, I can't speak to any major differences I noticed. I can say, however, that Oscar Isaac is excellent as he normally is. Oscar really brings the dissociative identity disorder of Marc/Steven to life while going through the rollercoaster trying to figure out what is happening to him. I am really looking forward to seeing the rest of this series unfold!
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