Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ trailer reveals Oscar Isaac as mysterious new superhero

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Officially launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 2022 slate, the primary trailer for its new collection ‘Moon Knight’ was launched on Tuesday, with the present set to premiere on March 30.

Unlike earlier Marvel collection, which have been based mostly on current characters from the corporate’s pre-2019 characteristic movies, ‘Moon Knight’ charts a brand-new path, with a very new set of characters and a storyline that has no clear preliminary connection to the MCU.

Starring Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector, an ex-soldier who suffers from dissociative identification dysfunction, the action-adventure collection set towards the backdrop of recent and historic Egypt finds the spectral superhero’s a number of identities thrust right into a lethal warfare of the gods.

He turns into the conduit for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu, which solely additional exacerbates Marc’s anxiousness over his psychological sickness.

The virtually 2-minute-long trailer, set to the backdrop of Kid Cudi’s ‘Day ‘n’ Night’, introduces viewers to the protagonist who is not in a position to differentiate between his regular life and his goals. Unable to go to sleep, he performs with a Rubik’s dice, solely to leap off the bed in a panic along with his foot chained to it, which he seemingly forgets that he was the one to do.

One night time whereas at a museum, he discovers a hidden key and an previous flip cellphone that is ringing. “Oh my god, you’re alive!” the girl on the opposite finish of the cellphone shouts. “What’s wrong with you, Marc?”

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He then sees a imaginative and prescient of Khonshu and later meets the present’s villain, performed by Ethan Hawke, a cult chief who encourages Marc to embrace the darkness inside himself. The trailer concludes with Marc being enveloped by the Moon Knight costume and a shot of him brutally beating somebody up on a rest room ground.

Marvel Studios’ official Twitter account at present additionally unveiled the primary poster picture for the collection, exhibiting particulars from Moon Knight’s costume and weapon of selection, which resembled a crescent moon.

Welcome to chaos Watch the brand new trailer for Marvel Studios’ @MoonKnight and begin streaming the Original collection March 30 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/T5E2ZTgaxP
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) January 18, 2022
Making his Marvel comics debut in 1975, Moon Knight initially had superpowers based mostly on the phases of the moon, however newer iterations have stored his talents mortal, aided by subtle gadgetry. That has drawn comics followers to check the character to the DC Comics superhero Batman.

As per Variety, ‘Moon Knight’ co-stars Hawke and May Calamawy. Jeremy Slater serves as creator and head author, with Mohamed Diab and the staff of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead directing.