Written by Doug Moench with art from Don Perlin, 1975’s Werewolf by Night No.

Like many Marvel superheroes, Moon Knight got his start in the comics as a guest in another character’s title series: Werewolf by Night. (It is, after all, streaming on Disney+.) But Moon Knight is primed to push past any Avengers-adjacent agenda as it brings Isaac and a lesser-known comics character into the spotlight alongside Ethan Hawke as the villainous cult leader Arthur Harrow and May Calamawy as archaeologist Layla El-Faouly.Īhead of the series premiere, here is everything you need to know about Moon Knight’s comics history and why the show is shaping up to be unlike any other Marvel Studios project that came before it. However, Slater also cited Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters as sources of inspiration for the series, so expectations surrounding how dark and scary Moon Knight is should probably be measured. “I want to bring some horror into the MCU and some scary monsters, and really push that envelope as far as we can,” Slater told Variety. Under the guidance of a creative team led by Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab and head writer Jeremy Slater, Moon Knight is set to take the MCU into darker and scarier terrority. Instead, it serves as a character study of an unsuspecting museum-shop clerk who discovers he has a mental illness as he’s thrust into a supernatural world where Egyptian gods walk among humans. Far from your average Marvel affair, the six-episode limited series doesn’t concern itself with the Blip or any traumatic Infinity Saga fallout.

In Moon Knight, which premieres on Disney+ on Wednesday, Oscar Isaac stars as a superhero whose dissociative identity disorder and psychic connection with the Egyptian god Khonshu produce four distinct personalities in addition to the titular, costumed character. With Moon Knight, the MCU is turning to streaming to tell a superhero origin story for the first time. Two of the four films Marvel has released so far in Phase 4- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals-have introduced a new wave of superheroes, while the first four live-action TV shows have centered on the old guard of Avengers (and one mischievous Asgardian god) as they all searched for ways to adapt to their new lives after the events of the Infinity Saga. A little more than a year after the conclusion of WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ inaugural TV series and the opening act of the MCU’s Phase 4, Marvel’s multiversal, interconnected narrative is poised to experiment with a new approach to small-screen storytelling.

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