The Pitch: When Moon Knight viewers first meet Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), he’s a simple man living a relatively simple life in London, working a menial job as a museum gift shop employee and struggling to connect with the people around him. While a bit of an odd duck, personality-wise, Steven has a good heart but a big secret: He keeps experiencing missing time, waking up in strange locations no matter how hard he tries to stay awake or chain himself up in his sleep. The cause for these lapses, as we soon learn, is that Steven shares his body with an entirely separate personality — that of a man known as Marc Spector, who’s caught up in some complicated business involving a golden scarab, a cult leader named Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), and as we eventually come to discover, the modern-da...
There’s more than meets the eye with Marc Spector, as we’re soon about to learn from the latest Marvel television series, Moon Knight. The highly anticipated series debuts Wednesday (March 30th) on Disney+, and it’s set to be a wild character study unlike anything seen in the MCU. Beyond his nightly habit of donning a silver cape and cowl as the crime-fighting titular Marvel Comics antihero, Marc has the unique distinction of battling for justice while facing his own dissociative identity disorder (DID), which splits his psyche into entirely separate entities. Star Oscar Isaac proudly proclaimed in the first featurette that they are “putting a lens on” the character’s fundamental psychological health aspects. With only a few hints of dueling personalities in the preceding trailers, however...
Source: Marvel Studios / Marvel Studios A year and change ago when Disney+ made its debut many subscribers had joined the new streaming service in anticipation of their Marvel Cinematic Universe based series and now their $69.99 yearly cost is finally going to pay off. With WandaVision set to drop this week (January 15th) and other MCU series in the chamber for the rest of the year, MCU head honcho Kevin Feige gave Deadline an interview and spoke about what Marvel Studios has planned for Disney+ and the silver screen going forward. While we’re excited to see what comes of Marvel’s Phase 4 and beyond, the burning question on the culture’s mind is what’s going to become of Black Panther 2. With the sudden death of Chadwick Boseman last year, rumors have been flying around about the poss...