With Moon Knight's premiere fast approaching, anticipation is at an all-time hight for Disney+'s latest MCU-set series, which will see the live-action debut of mystical mercenary Marc Spector.
Now, USA Today has shared a new featurette for the show, giving us a look at some exciting new footage along with interview snippets from stars Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, and director Mohamad Diab.
“It's amazing that the brain has this survival mechanism, this way to cope,” says Isaac of his character's dissociative identity disorder. “At a very young age, if you're going through sustained horrible trauma and abuse, something that can happen in order for one to survive is the brain splits into an alternate personality that has no idea of what's happening. Otherwise, you die because it's just so awful. And that is its own incredible, kind of beautiful superpower.”
Check out the new featurette below.
In addition to Cairo 678 director Mohamed Diab behind the camera, we found out last year that the Disney+ series has also enlisted Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead (The Endless, Synchronic) to helm additional episodes. Jeremy Slater (The Umbrella Academy; The Exorcist) will serve as showrunner, and is leading the show's writing team.
Specific plot details are still under wraps, but the small-screen adaptation is expected to stick pretty close to the basic premise of the comic, with Marc Spector, a highly skilled mercenary who has numerous alter-egos, channelling the power of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu to fight crime in LA.
A recent synopsis stated that "the action-adventure features a complex vigilante who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The multiple identities who live inside him are distinct characters who appear against a backdrop of Egyptian iconography."
The six-part limited series begins streaming on March 30.