Moon Knight Post-Finale Interview: Mohamed Diab
Marvel's Moon Knight may have been replaced by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as the talk of the pop culture town this week, but the power of its first season has not lessened since its finale. Between introducing a protagonist with Dissociative Identity Disorder, offering up the first Egyptian superhero in the MCU, and allowing star Oscar Isaac has to portray not one but three characters — the series juggled plenty and with great success.
It's not just the strides towards diversity and comic lore coming to life that makes Moon Knight such a triumph, either. The creative team behind the scenes worked tirelessly and with immense attention to detail in order to ensure that the hints came together in the correct order to tease future events for the audience, while also avoiding a reliance on larger MCU hype to get their story across.
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Screen Rant had the honor of speaking to Mohamed Diab, who directed four of Moon Knight season 1's 6 episodes, about some of the most important moments in the finale and hopes for the future of the franchise. While a second season has yet to be directly confirmed, Diab has plenty of thoughts on which direction Steven, Marc and Jake could take.
Screen Rant: It was so amazing to see Layla transform into Scarlet Scarab. How important was it to let her have her own identity as an Egyptian superhero, which we have not yet seen in the MCU?
Mohamed Diab: First of all, I have to give it to the writers, who came up with the idea of making her Egyptian. As Egyptians, we came and fleshed it out more, and May definitely was the character's best ally. But you don't know how that moment affected Egyptians. Egyptians
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