Moon Knight Episode 4’s Hospital Sequence Explained By Marvel Directors
Moon Knight directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead explain episode 4's hospital sequence. Moon Knight is the latest series from Marvel Studios which premiered March 30 on Disney+ and introduces Oscar Issac's titular hero to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Issac leads the cast as Steven Grant/Marc Spector, the two sides of his character who lives with dissociative identity disorder. Episode 3 also hinted at a third and more violent alter who goes by the name Jack Lockley in the comics.
At the end of episode 4 titled «The Tomb,» the show's primary villain, a cult leader named Arthur Harrow played by Ethan Hawke, fatally shoots Marc in the tomb of Alexander the Great, where he leaves him to die. However, Marc unexpectedly wakes up in a psychiatric hospital where his love interest Layla (May Calamawy) is a fellow patient and Harrow is the head doctor. After discovering that Dr. Steven Grant is actually the main character in an Indiana Jones knockoff, Marc soon finds his alter-ego in a separate body trapped in a sarcophagus. The pair then meet a high-pitched hippo who is the Egyptian goddess Taweret. Now, Moon Knight episode 4's directors are opening up about its weird and wacky ending.
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Talking to EW, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (who directed episode 4), explained how its huge twist ending was created. Moorehead began by explaining the inspiration for the psychiatric hospital sequence, which is intended to "completely disorient the audience." Read what the two had to say below:
Moorhead: The end of episode 4 is actually a gift of the script. It came from wanting to do the least expected thing and completely disorient the audience, while also
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