Yesterday, Empire debuted a pair of stunning Moon Knight covers, and the mag has now shared a new still from the upcoming Disney+ series which gives us a first look at another of Marc Spector's (Oscar Isaac) personas: Mr. Knight!
In the comics, the dapper Mr. Knight is one of the hero's more recent personalities, and is distinguishable from Moon Knight by his cape-less white suit, shirt, tie and cane combo. This is the identity the vigilante usually uses to converse with his psychiatrist and any civilians he may have dealings with.
Check out the new image at the link below.
We also have quotes from Empire's interview with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, and it sounds like Moon Knight is going to be the MCU's most violent project yet.
“He’s brutal,” Feige says of the titular character. “It’s been fun to work with Disney+ and see the boundaries shifting on what we’re able to do. There are moments [in the series] when Moon Knight is wailing on another character, and it is loud and brutal, and the knee-jerk reaction is, ‘We’re gonna pull back on this, right?’ No. We’re not pulling back. There’s a tonal shift. This is a different thing. This is Moon Knight.”
The show has Cairo 678 director Mohamed Diab behind the camera, and 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.
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."