Moon Knight Director Calls Wonder Woman 2 Egypt Scene A Disgrace
Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab thinks Wonder Woman 1984's Egypt scene was disgraceful. Diab is an Egyptian screenwriter who made his directorial debut in 2010 with the political thriller Cairo 678 and recently acted as head director on Moon Knight, helming a total of four episodes. Premiering March 30 on Disney+, Marvel's latest series will continue to diversify its ever-expanding universe. The show centers on Marc Spector (Oscar Issac), a mercenary suffering from dissociative identity disorder who becomes a conduit for the Egyptian god Khonshu.
The other comic book property in question, Wonder Woman 1984, was released in December 2020 as the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins' critically and commercially successfulWonder Woman movie from 2017. Trading in its World War I-era setting for the glitz and glam of the 1980s, many critics and fans felt the sequel paled in comparison to its predecessor. One of the many gripes viewers had with the film was its questionable depiction of Egypt. During one scene midway through the movie, villain Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) travels to the Middle Eastern country to meet an oil baron, which is followed by a high-speed vehicle chase that ends with Wonder Woman swooping in to save two Egyptian children.
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During an interview with SFX Magazine (via Games Radar), Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab was in the midst of discussing how the Marvel show uses Ancient Egyptian mythology when he took the time to criticize DC's Wonder Woman 1984 for its poor portrayal of Egypt, which he called a "disgrace." In fact, the inauthentic portrayal of Egypt by Hollywood was a huge part of Diab's pitch to
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