Moon Knight Director Criticizes Wonder Woman 1984 Egypt Sequence

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It's been crucial for Marvel Studios to bring in filmmakers who are eager to push the boundaries of storytelling and offer fresh perspectives on the world, especially when it comes to Disney Plus' upcomingMoon Knight series. The six-part show has an Egyptian-set story, and for director Mohamed Diab, it's very important to look beyond many of the past racist depictions of Egypt as presented in other films like Wonder Woman 1984.

The new Marvel Studios series follows Oscar Isaac's Marc Spector, a mercenary who suffers from a dissociative identity disorder and gains superpowers from the ancient Egyptian god of the Moon, Khonshu. As for Diab, the Egyptian screenwriter and director, who is best known for his acclaimed Cairo 678,will be directing four of the sixMoon Knight episodes.

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Continuing to promote Moon Knight, Diab spoke with IGN about how important it is to depict Egypt and Egyptian culture in positive ways. “It was very important for me to portray us as normal human beings. Even the location itself, showing Cairo, which always we see the pyramids in the middle of the desert, even though if you just looked a little bit to the right, the pyramids are in the middle of the city, and it’s twenty million people, and we have skyscrapers, and it’s a normal place just like this," Diab shared. Ridding of the many stereotypes was always a top priority for Diab when it came to working on Moon Knight, as the director looked back on recent comic book films like Wonder Woman 1984 and how that film continued to rely heavily on outdated tropes, particularly in one sequence involving Pedro Pascal's character traveling to Cairo to seize the oil rights.

“I remember