How Marvel's Moon Knight Flips the Typical Hero/Villain Relationship
Moon Knight will deconstruct typical relationships between heroes and villains, promises Ethan Hawke. Moon Knight will be the next MCU series to hit Disney +, when its six-episode run begins on March 30th. The series’ cast will be led by Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector, who makes his MCU debut after featuring previously in the X-Men, and Hawke who will be taking on the role of the show’s antagonist.
Isaac’s Marc Spector is a combat veteran turned mercenary, who lives with dissociative identity disorder. The mental illness forces Spector to unknowingly shift between his various identities, as highlighted in the series' trailers. The character is set to become entangled with Hawke’s evil cult leader Arthur Harrow, who worships the ancient Egyptian God Ammitt. In addition to showing Spector’s mental illness, Moon Knight’s trailers have emphasized the show’s darker tone, in contrast to other MCU shows like Hawkeye, which stuck with the relatively light-hearted Marvel formula.
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At a Moon Knight press conference Screen Rant attended, Hawke revealed the show will use Spector’s mental illness to flip the usual hero/villain narrative. Commenting on what drew him to the ambitious project, Hawke stated that the series gave him the chance to play a villain who isn’t “crazy… a sane lunatic”. The actor said that this was a rare opportunity, explaining that there are“countless stories of mentally ill villains, and we have a mentally ill hero.” Check out Hawke’s full comments below:
“[T]he history of movies are paved with storytellers using mental illness as a building block for the villain. I mean, there's countless stories of mentally ill villains, and we have
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