METAL GEAR SOLID Creator Hideo Kojima Shares His Glowing Review Of Marvel Studios' MOON KNIGHT

METAL GEAR SOLID Creator Hideo Kojima Shares His Glowing Review Of Marvel Studios' MOON KNIGHT

Moon Knight premiered on Disney+ in 2022 but Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has only just managed to watch the first episode...and loved it! Find out what he had to say about the MCU series here!

By JoshWilding - Feb 27, 2024 12:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Moon Knight

Marvel Studios' Moon Knight premiered on Disney+ in 2022 and, unfortunately, got lost amid what proved to be another jam-packed year for the MCU in theaters and on streaming. 

Not helping matters is the fact we haven't seen the character since; Oscar Isaac confirmed on multiple occasions that he only signed up for a single season, meaning a new deal will need to be negotiated if the story of Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley is to continue. 

The show has gained one noteworthy new fan today, though, as Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has taken to X to weigh in with his thoughts on the first episode. 

The visionary's fans have come to love his enthusiastic reviews of movies and TV shows and it seems he was suitably impressed by both Moon Knight's tone and Isaac's performance as the superhero with multiple personalities. 

Check out Kojima's Moon Knight comments in full below. 

I have always wanted to watch "Moon Knight" because I am a fan of Oscar Isaac, but I held out until the BD-box came out. I joined Disney Plus to watch the documentary, so I immediately watched the first episode. What a surprise! This is so original! The artwork, the world, the direction, the pacing! It's unlike any hero movie I've ever seen. Above all, the main character, Stephen, is lonely and weak. I had never imagined such a pathetic and unattractive Oscar Isaac. But this is the good thing. Oscar Isaac succeeds in taking on this difficult role. Excellent casting. I am looking forward to seeing more.

We're still waiting on news about Moon Knight's MCU future and Isaac recently shared his desire to see the character assemble with the Midnight Sons.

"I thought there was an interesting opportunity with Midnight Sons. There’s such interesting characters in there, and now that we’ve set the groundwork with learning who Marc, Steven, Jake are, it could be an interesting opportunity to see him as part of a team and what that dynamic would be," the actor teased. "So I think that would be exciting, I think for me, I definitely hope there’s some room to explore that possibility."

Moon Knight 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 mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt. 

The series stars Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy. Mohamed Diab and the team of Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead directed the episodes (those George Clooney rumours were incorrect). Jeremy Slater is the head writer, and Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Mohamed Diab, Jeremy Slater and Oscar Isaac are the executive producers.

Moon Knight is now streaming on Disney+.

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 2/27/2024, 12:46 PM
He just wants Oscar in death standing
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 2/27/2024, 1:40 PM
@HashTagSwagg - oscar isaac was cast as solid snake in the metal gear live action movie.

be weird not to get norman reedus in death stranding imo
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 2/28/2024, 5:00 AM
@mastakilla39 - Death Stranding 2: Rise of the Post Office!!!
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 2/27/2024, 12:46 PM
He’s not wrong. Can’t wait to see more MK!
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 2/27/2024, 12:48 PM
"I had never imagined such a pathetic and unattractive Oscar Isaac"
💀
RedFury
RedFury - 2/27/2024, 1:17 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - lmao what a quote eh. And it's one of those rare backhanded compliments that actually works somehow.
JonC
JonC - 2/27/2024, 1:43 PM
@RedFury - its not backhanded, its complimentary to his acting skills. Not unlike Bale playing a scrawny machinist... its part of being the character and why you are sought out for the 'abilities' as a actor.
DankMan
DankMan - 2/27/2024, 2:18 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - Ya Steven is supposed to be pathetic and unattractive, did you watch Moon Knight?
RedFury
RedFury - 2/27/2024, 2:35 PM
@JonC - oh I agree with you're statement. I think you misunderstood what I meant.

I'm just saying it sounds like an insult, but in actuality is a compliment.
Radders
Radders - 2/28/2024, 8:55 AM
@RedFury @killuminatic - dudes on a forum about comics and films which predominantly feature attractive muscular men, infer someone wants to see men that aren't "pathetic and unnattractive" is ghey- how strange the world has become
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 2/29/2024, 9:53 PM
@Radders - haha, it ain’t that deep mate.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/27/2024, 12:53 PM
After the first episode, I was really hyped for that show too. But then the rest of the season happened.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/27/2024, 12:54 PM
"pathetic and unattractive" hell yeah that sums up most of Disney's current year men characters in current year
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 2/27/2024, 1:03 PM
@harryba11zack - Didn’t know you swung that way.
JonC
JonC - 2/27/2024, 1:44 PM
@Killuminatic - he obviously wants more oiled muscles...
JFerguson
JFerguson - 2/27/2024, 1:00 PM
This show was awesome except for the finale and bad cgi on the suit up scenes.

Also it seemed to not want to take enough inspiration from the source by refusing to adapt Moon Knight's supporting cast and bushman from the comics. Still, an mcu take on the story was fine.

It's the best out of the 3 "surprise" Disney+ series that were announced out of the blue (She-hulk, ms. marvel, moon knight). Still shocked those 3 were even announced.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/27/2024, 1:15 PM
@JFerguson - Feige just didn't have the balls to do a legitimate Moon Knight adaptation because he was terrified of it being called a Batman ripoff. So, they did a VERY loose adaptations of the overrated Ellis and Lemire runs instead of looking to the runs that ACTUALLY made the character interesting: Moech, Dixon, Huston.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 2/27/2024, 1:03 PM
This guy appartenly never read Moon Knight comic in his life.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/27/2024, 1:06 PM
@Nomis929 - in his defense, plenty of people get introduced to this stuff only via the live action material. But I agree, he probably never read an MK comic. Not enough weird fetishes in it for him lol.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 2/27/2024, 1:18 PM
@GhostDog - Yeah, You're probably right.

I just don't like giving credence to someone who don't have a simialr starting point to understaning these characters as much as long time comic readers do.

Not that we will all judge these live action adaptaion the same since we read these comics, but I wil give more weight to someone with knowledge of the characters, even if i disagreee, then someone who don;t have a similar starting point.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 2/27/2024, 1:58 PM
@Nomis929 -

The more you talk, the less you feel like the original.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/27/2024, 2:15 PM
@Nomis929 - na I feel you. I agree on the weight part
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 2/27/2024, 2:20 PM
@DrReedRichards - Original what?
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 2/27/2024, 2:45 PM
@Nomis929 -

Nomis celebrated comics and their adaptation. He didn't gatekeep them.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 2/27/2024, 3:24 PM
@DrReedRichards - No It's me.

Yes, I've ALWAYS, celebrated the Comics, I think they are FAR SUPERIOR than these movies, and while I appaled some of the efforts of these adaptations, at least the ones I liked and thought respect the source material, I NEVER was one to celebrates ALL these movie adaptations.

I been quite critical of them since my time on here, back when I first came on here, years ago and now. To the point of being label a "purist' by some and so forth. Which was said as an insult, but I wear it as a badge of honor.

I always been and still criticize Fox's and their X-men movies and especially Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and how they neutered Cyclops position as leader for Mystiqe.

I always thought "the Dark Knight' was overrated and my least favorite of the series and didn't care for Ledger’s performance as the Joker (that really got me a lot of negative feedback from that) which is ironic because I championed his casting on here when it was first announced and everyone was getting down on it.

I always said that the TDKR get a bad rap and is better than a lot of people think.

I still don't like the humor the MCU use to cover over a weak story plot in their movies and the way they watered down there villains especially Trevor Slattery "Mandarin".

And don’t' get me started on James Gunn and what he did to GOTG and the infamous "Dance off" in the first movie.

I think the DCEU movies are better than a lot of critics and many on here think they are. I even wrote up a positive review on 'Superman V Batman'. But they did leave a lot left to be desired.

And I try and respect everyone’s opinion even when I don’t agree because I know in the end, all of this is SUBJECTIVE and it's just movies.

No big deal.

DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 2/27/2024, 3:55 PM
@Nomis929 -

Okay, you're real.

I still think you're being unnecessarily critical of casuals, since it's thanks to them that we nerds now enjoy the mainstream, but at least it's you, so my bad for thinking otherwise.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 2/27/2024, 4:17 PM
@DrReedRichards - No Problem.

And I know I can be too stubborn with adhearing to the source materials to closely for these live action adaptations, but it's becasue I really have an affection toward them.

But your'e right,the creators have to think about the mainstream audience more than us diehards because it's there money and acceptance of this medium due to their numbers and dollars far outnumber us, that we can get more adaptations.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/27/2024, 1:04 PM
His Solid Snake

MK was decent and did some cool things but lost all momentum with that finale. A victim of the bullshit 6 episodes mandate.
BassMan
BassMan - 2/27/2024, 1:04 PM
I liked the show a lot, it wasn’t perfect but I don’t need it to be. Thought the 3 segmented sections worked better than most the other shows too. Would have liked to see more of his action as opposed to the cutaways. And it was weird, but I liked the Kaiju battle at the end.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/27/2024, 1:11 PM
Moon Knight was just disposable, soulless D+ content, and a poor adaptation of a great character.
DankMan
DankMan - 2/27/2024, 2:20 PM
@soberchimera - Disagree, but it wasn't a perfect show. I think the core of the character was done well and I want him in Midnight Sons yesterday
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/27/2024, 2:24 PM
@DankMan - Glad you liked it, but I think you would've enjoyed a more faithful adaptation too as well as me.
DankMan
DankMan - 2/27/2024, 4:08 PM
@soberchimera - What made it unfaithful to you?
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/27/2024, 4:19 PM
@DankMan - Ohhh let's see.....Steven Grant was a British gift shop employee not a millionaire entreprenuer, no Bushman, Midnight Man was just some guy not a master thief, his brother Randall was killed off as a kid, and his Moon Knight suit does not magically form around him. Also, whether Khonshu is real or just a figment of Spector's imagination is left ambiguous in the comics.
DankMan
DankMan - 2/27/2024, 5:53 PM
@soberchimera - when has the MCU ever been a 1 to 1 retelling of the comics?
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/27/2024, 6:10 PM
@DankMan - Again, it's cool if you liked it. These were pretty big deviations from the comics, it's like if Captain America's suit formed around him after singing the Star-Spangled Banner or if the ghost of George Washington was always with him and giving him advice.
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