Moon Knight (TV series)

Moon Knight is an American television miniseries created by Jeremy Slater for the streaming service Disney+. It is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and is the sixth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the movies of the franchise.
Slater serves as head writer with Mohamed Diab leading the directing team. Oscar Isaac stars as Marc Spector / Moon Knight and Steven Grant / Mr. Knight, with May Calamawy, Karim El Hakim, F. Murray Abraham, Ethan Hawke, Ann Akinjirin, David Ganly, Khalid Abdalla, Gaspard Ulliel, Antonia Salib, Fernanda Andrade, Rey Lucas, Sofia Danu, and Saba Mubarak also starring. The series was announced in August 2019, with Slater hired in November. Diab was hired to direct four episodes of the series in October 2020, with directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead joining the series in January 2021 to direct the other two. Isaac was confirmed to star at that time. Filming took place from April to October 2021, mostly in Budapest as well as in Jordan, Slovenia, and Atlanta, Georgia.
The show premiered on March 30, 2022 and it ran for six episodes until May 4. It is part of Phase Four of the MCU.
Cast
Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector / Moon Knight, Steven Grant / Mr. Knight and Jake Lockley:A man with dissociative identity disorder (DID), whose identities are of distinct characters. His identities are Marc Spector, a Jewish-American mercenary who becomes the avatar for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu, Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee who becomes Mr. Knight, Grant's persona when he is Khonshu's avatar, as well as Jake Lockley, a more ruthless alter. His brother Michael Benjamin Hernandez served as his body double, allowing Isaac to act against someone for scenes where both Marc and Steven meet.
Carlos Sanchez and David Jake Rodriguez portray Spector as a child and teenager, respectively.
May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly / Scarlet Scarab: An archeologist and adventurer, who is Spector's wife and is aware he is Moon Knight. El-Faouly becomes the MCU version of Scarlet Scarab, the temporary avatar of Egyptian goddess Taweret, in the final episode.
Karim El Hakim and F. Murray Abraham as Khonshu: The Egyptian moon god, who is not accepted within the gods for waging a "one-god war on perceived injustices", thus needing him to find and use his avatar, Marc Spector. El Hakim provides the on-set performance, while Abraham voices the character.
Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow: A religious zealot and cult leader associated with the Egyptian goddess Ammit looking to exact justice and judgment based on future crimes. Harrow was Khonshu's previous avatar before Spector.
Ann Akinjirin as Bobbi Kennedy: A British police officer and follower of Harrow's cult.
David Ganly as Billy Fitzgerald: A British police officer and follower of Harrow's cult.
Khalid Abdalla as Selim: The avatar of Osiris and leader of the council of Egyptian gods.
Gaspard Ulliel as Anton Mogart / Midnight Man: A wealthy antiquities collector living in Egypt and an old acquaintance of Layla's.
Antonia Salib as Taweret: The hippopotamus-headed Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility, who acts as a protector of mothers and children. Salib provides the voice and the motion capture performance of the character.
Fernanda Andrade as Wendy Spector: Marc's mother and Elias' wife.
Rey Lucas as Elias Spector: Marc's father and Wendy's husband.
Sofia Danu and Saba Mubarak as Ammit: The imprisoned Egyptian goddess whom Harrow plans to release to cast her preemptive judgement on all of humanity. Danu provides the on-set performance, while Mubarak voices the character.
Shaun Scott recurs in the series as the living statue Crawley. Also guest starring are Lucy Thackeray and Alexander Cobb as Grant's co-workers Donna and J.B., respectively, Diana Bermudez as Yatzil, the avatar of the Egyptian goddess of love Hathor, Declan Hannigan as the avatar of the Egyptian god of kinship Horus, Hayley Konadu as the avatar of the Egyptian goddess of moisture Tefnut, Nagisa Morimoto as the avatar of the Egyptian goddess of the moon Isis, Loic Mabanza as Mogart's bodyguard Bek, Joseph Millson as Dr. Steven Grant from the fictional movie Tomb Buster, while Bill Bekele portrays his young assistant Rosser, Claudio Fabian Contreras as Spector's younger brother Randall, and Usama Soliman as Layla's father Abdallah El-Faouly.
Plot
A man named Steven Grant works at a gift shop at an Egyptian mythology museum in England. Then he finds out that he has dissociative identity disorder and his alter ego named Marc Spector is actually an antihero mercenary transformed into a superhero called Moon Knight by the Egyptian moon deity Khonsu who wants him to kill all evil people for him as his "fist of vengeance". But a man named Alexander Harrow leads a cult that worships Ammit and wants to kill anyone whose destiny is to do evil even before they've done it. After Marc and Steven go to Egypt with Marc's wife Layla to stop Harrow from being able to free Ammit from prison, Khonshu leads them to the tomb of Alexander the Great and the gods of Egypt punish him by trapping him in a shabti. Harrow tells Layla that Marc Spector killed her father who was an Egyptologist even though Marc says he didn't. Harrow and his henchmen kill Marc Spector so he and his split personality Steven Grant go to the afterlife which looks like a psychiatric hospital. The goddess Taweret tells Marc and Steven, who she thinks are twins, to look to the past to figure out why they're not allowed to go to the Field of Reeds. In a flashback, they find out that when Marc Spector was a child he had a younger brother who drowned because of Marc's mistakes and Marc's mother started to beat Marc for it and tell him it was his fault so he convinced himself that he was actually Steven Grant, a fictional character from a movie about a British archaeologist so he could feel like the abuse had happened to someone else. Steven is angry when he finds out because it means that he isn't actually real. They then find out that Marc was once a mercenary for a man named Bushman who wanted to rob an archeological site while no one was there but there were people there so Bushman decided to kill them all and Marc tried and failed to stop him and was hurt. Marc then decided to kill himself but was stopped by Khonshu who offered to save his life if he became Khonshu's servant and assassin called Moon Knight. Marc tells Steven that after his mother dies his father wanted him to start sitting shiva for her but he refused because he hates her and that's when he lost control and wasn't able to stop Steven from taking over. Steven decides to leave their boat so that Marc can go to Paradise but Marc decides that he can't go there without Steven and goes back for him. Osiris has mercy on them and lets them out of the underworld so that they can be alive again. Harrow frees Ammit and she tries to destroy Egypt, so Marc Spector/Steven Grant also called Moon Knight teams up with Khonshu to stop her if he agrees to let Moon Knight stop being his avatar. Khonshu says yes. They manage to use magic to imprison Ammit inside Harrow but Layla convinces Moon Knight not to kill him. Khonshu frees Moon Knight. In a post-credits scene, Khonshu tells Harrow that Marc Spector actually has a third personality named Jake Lockley. Lockley is a friend of Khonshu and doesn't have a conscience so he kills Harrow.
References
2022 American television series debuts