Moon Knight

Much of the pre-release publicity about Moon Knight focused on the heightened brutality of the new MCU on Disney+ series. In doing so, all involved failed to ...

Diab directs four of the six, including two of the episodes given to critics. For viewers who have increasingly complained that the MCU plays it too safe, too rarely risks going big and weird, Moon Knight may provide some of what they want. Finally, Abraham does a lot with a little, making Khonshu seem violent, cruel, selfish, and intensely lonely with limited lines and an evolving tone of voice. With less than two hours left, the show has several pieces in play but none particularly close to resolution. When they don’t in episode two, viewers end up back in the realm of the goofy. The fourth episode suggests a certain awareness of this necessity. Mohamed Diab and the team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead split directing duties on the series. It’s not so much inaccurate about DID as it is the same old visual language. Scenes of the god’s giant skeletal bird body wandering through a well-attended bazaar or relaxing against a car are strong mergers of the bizarre and benign. Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke)—the series villain—has a far less eye-catching but nonetheless appropriate look. At its best, it demonstrates how quickly and easily the diagnosis can get you marginalized. In doing so, all involved failed to mention how much stranger it would be than the average MCU streamer.

The Marvel TV show's premiere episode finds an ace Oscar Isaac in capital-L loser mode.

Clearly tapping into a supernatural force (his scales tattoo can channel the goddess Ammit , we learn), Arthur is a welcome foil for Steven. It was only once I saw the two come face to face at the museum in the premiere’s third act that I realized Moon Knight was already gifting us two things plenty of MCU properties have struggled with: thrilling, enticing villains (Loki and Hela aside, naturally) and leads who are as exciting as their caped alter characters. If you’ve watched him dance inEx-Machinaor stroll with confidence in the latest Star Wars trilogy, you know Oscar knows how best to deploy a weighted physicality in every one of his roles. As Dylan sings, I want to find myself trusting this story so I can similarly claim, “I’m hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan.” The joy of this pilot is how Grant’s bumbling persona becomes our introduction to the occult world of Moon Knight. Like Jason Bourne, it’s clear that Grant is more than meets the eye. Something is clearly going awry and by god(s) we need to figure out what it is that’s happening soon, lest we lose the plot. But in leaning into being an exercise in withholding, the blood-splattering fights that happen whenever Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) loses consciousness and finds himself in danger are left to our imaginations.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'on est un superhéros qu'on est à l'abri de la maladie mentale. Avec la série Moon Knight, qui arrive sur Disney+ ce mercredi, Marvel ...

C’était intéressant surtout avec la contrepartie que représente Marc, qui répond plus au stéréotype du vengeur sombre et torturé. Mais il a cet Anglais à l’intérieur de lui...» «C’est bien de vraiment voir l’Égypte, ce qui n’arrive presque jamais, reprend-il. Il y a quelque chose de terrifiant là-dedans. Mais je pense qu'avec Steven, il y a un sens de l’humour différent de ce qu’on a vu.» Ethan Hawke a accepté le mandat et incarne ici Arthur Harrow. «C’était aussi d’utiliser l’iconographie égyptienne et le langage du superhéros pour parler de ce véritable trouble que cette personne vit. Celles-ci sont commandées par le dieu égyptien Khonshu, qui a aussi son mot à dire.

Well, we get precisely zero Batman vibes in this first episode of the new Disney+ show, where we meet the painfully uncool Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac in his ...

I will say it is refreshing to watch an ambitious Marvel show that isn’t filled with Easter eggs (for comics fans, there’s a quick glimpse of the name “Duchamp” on Marc’s flip phone) or in-universe call-backs: Moon Knight doesn’t have to concern itself with dropping breadcrumbs, and can just get on with telling its own story from the ground up. Although Isaac’s British accent is likely a rollercoaster for anyone who lives in the UK – sometimes he sounds bang on the money and others not – hints are dropped that we will get more of American Marc in the next episode. Casting F. Murray Abraham as the voice of the moon god is a masterstroke. In fact, there’s a lot of really cool stuff in this episode that ends up a little smudged by either its underwhelming CG or Isaac’s quirky central performance as the flappable Steven, which is unfortunate. Steven is passionate about ancient Egypt, and seems to be by all accounts a lovely man on the verge of starting a romance with a beautiful co-worker who he doesn’t even remember asking out. Well, we get precisely zero Batman vibes in this first episode of the new Disney+ show, where we meet the painfully uncool Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac in his element), a timid British museum gift shop employee who thinks he has a sleep disorder.

A lire sur AlloCiné : Nouvelle série des studios Marvel sur Disney+, Moon Knight introduit un nouveau personnage incarné par Oscar Isaac dans le MCU.

De son côté, l'acteur Gaspard Ulliel livre une dernière incarnation marquante à l'écran d'un personnage qui était, sans aucun doute, appelé à revenir dans le MCU. C’était un pari risqué mais c’est une exécution réussie, tant le personnage de Moon Knight est assez riche et passionnant pour se suffire à lui-même. Face à lui se dresse un méchant calme et redoutable incarné par un Ethan Hawke au meilleur de sa forme. Elle était annoncée comme une série à part dans le MCU et elle l’est ! Nouvelle création originale des studios Marvel sur Disney+, Moon Knight introduit un tout nouveau héros aux multiples facettes. Il découvre qu’il souffre d’un trouble dissociatif de l’identité et qu’il partage le même corps qu’un mercenaire, Marc Spector. Alors que l’étau se resserre sur Steven / Marc, les deux hommes, plongés dans une aventure périlleuse parmi les puissants dieux d’Égypte, vont devoir trouver leur équilibre dans cette double identité. Mais le sujet est ici traité de manière encore plus frontale et avec le plus grand soin, tant dans la performance épatante d’Oscar Isaac, - même dans son accent britannique -, que dans la mise en scène inspirée des réalisateurs, jouant à fond sur les ombres, les reflets, les miroirs et les effets d'ubiquité pour accentuer la double personnalité de son héros.

Oscar Isaac se glisse dans le costume du nouveau super-héros Marvel. Il se confie sur ce défi et rend hommage à Gaspard Ulliel, qui figure au générique de ...

Et Ethan Hawke, qui incarne l'antagoniste principal de Moon Knight, de conclure: "Il avait une élégance, une beauté. On a bossé seulement trois ou quatre jours avec lui. "C'est horrible, mais aussi terriblement ironique", poursuit l'acteur. "Il nous racontait à quel point il avait appris à skier avant de marcher. A la fin du tournage, je lui ai dit que les fans de Marvel allaient tellement l'aimer qu'ils allaient vouloir le voir revenir". Moon Knight marque aussi la dernière apparition à l'écran de Gaspard Ulliel, mort en février dernier. On a beaucoup parlé." C'était très amusant à composer."

Moon Knight, the new vigilante played by Oscar Isaac for Disney Plus, may be the darkest hero yet from Marvel Studios.

Diab recently told The Washington Post that Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood’s 2016 “Moon Knight” series was a heavy influence on the live-action series. “Moon Knight” doesn’t lean on the first decade of the MCU, at least through the first four episodes, but the character could still show up elsewhere on Disney Plus or even in future theatrical releases. But in July, Marvel Comics debuted a new “Moon Knight” series written by Jed MacKay and illustrated by Alessandro Cappuccio. Moon Knight violently protects all those around him while being at odds with Khonshu, the moon god that bestowed his superhero identity. Moon Knight made his Marvel Comics debut in 1975 with a guest appearance in “Werewolf by Night” No. 32. Which explains why Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch is now one of the MCU’s most important characters after the success of “ WandaVision.” Moon Knight is known mostly by avid comic book readers but could become a household name. Spector develops multiple personalities, including Jake Lockley, a taxi driver, and Steven Grant, a billionaire — although in the streaming series, Steven is a disgruntled British museum employee.

Pour la première fois, un superhéros tiré des bandes dessinées intègre l'Univers cinématographique Marvel (MCU) avec sa propre série sur Disney+ et non au ...

On navigue également avec beaucoup plus d’incertitudes qu’à l’habitude. Les intentions de Khonshu sont-elles si nobles ? Comment deux personnes peuvent-elles mener des vies si différentes dans un même corps ? Dans quelle tête sommes-nous réellement ? Pour Mohamed Diab, qui tourne habituellement de petits films davantage politiques situés au Moyen-Orient, Moon Knight était, d’une part, l’occasion de raconter l’histoire d’« une personne normale qui découvre que son autre identité est celle d’un superhéros ». « L’autre aspect qui m’a vraiment séduit est la partie égyptienne du récit. En tant qu’Égyptien, nous sommes souvent montrés d’un point de vue orientaliste dans lequel nous sommes exotiques et déshumanisés. Avec le personnage de Layla, je voulais montrer que nous sommes des humains comme les autres. On pense à Indiana Jones et à Tomb Raider, surtout pour les scènes en Égypte. Fidèle aux comics, Moon Knight frappe aussi plus fort que la plupart des superhéros de Marvel et reçoit plus de coups. Ici, le héros est celui qui a une maladie mentale, alors, comme antagoniste, je devais incarner une force malveillante, mais saine d’esprit », a expliqué Ethan Hawke. May Calamawy, une actrice aux racines palestiniennes et égyptiennes, complète le trio en tête d’affiche. Son personnage de Layla El-Faouly, grandement inspiré de Marlene Alraune des BD, est la débrouillarde femme de Marc Spector. Sans surprise, leur relation est très compliquée. La violence et l’humour noir occupent d’ailleurs une place importante dans les BD. Steven Grant est quant à lui un milliardaire qui finance les opérations de Moon Knight. Il y a aussi Jake Lockley, un chauffeur de taxi, puis Mr. Knight, qui agit parfois comme consultant des forces policières. Il n’hérite toutefois pas des talents pour le combat de Moon Knight. Lorsqu’il est Marc Spector, il est un mercenaire sous l’emprise du dieu égyptien de la lune, Khonsou (Khonshu, chez Marvel). Ramené à la vie par ce dernier, Marc est devenu le bourreau terrestre de celui qui est aussi le dieu de la « juste vengeance ». Le costume et la cape de Moon Knight ne donnent pas de pouvoirs particuliers à Marc, qui est tout de même habile de ses poings, fort agile et très tolérant à la douleur.

Oscar Isaac in Marvel's 'Moon Knight.' Marvel Studios. Midway through the second episode of Disney+'s new Marvel series Moon Knight, mercenary Marc Spector has ...

That said, Marvel gave critics four of the six episodes (substantially more than usual for these shows, but still not the full season), and the fourth one begins to pivot a bit more into the darkness inherent in the character. But given the character’s long history of being more exciting in theory than reality — and given that none of the previous MCU shows have been at their best in their finales — my hopes aren’t too high for the concluding chapters. (*) Part of the problem is that he was just meant to be a one-off antagonist for the titular hero of the comic Werewolf by Night, and Moench and Perlin thought a lunar-themed opponent made sense under the circumstance. And at the same time, they are also attempting to integrate the darker aspects of the character — who racks up a much higher body count than your average costumed hero and, again, suffers from a debilitating mental illness — into the welcoming, semi-jokey tone of the MCU. As with most things Moon Knight-related, the results are mixed. Moon Knight, created in the mid-Seventies by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, is a cowl on a cowl on top of three more cowls. This is a typical example of the brand of cliche-puncturing, self-deprecating humor that has become a key part of the formula to every MCU movie and TV show.

Oscar Isaac interprète Steven Grant dans Moon Knight, un homme lambda qui se rend compte qu'il partage son corps avec le mercenaire Marc Spector. L'acteur, ...

"La série mixe à la perfection les différents genres, résultant en un mélange unique qui donne à la série une ambiance excentrique que le public va adorer. Avec Moon Knight, Marvel n'a pas seulement développé son prochain super-héros, elle a aussi créé le prochain phénomène des plateformes." "Moon Knight est à la fois un divertissement simple et compliqué. La série fonctionne à de nombreux niveaux et se place aux côtés de Wandavision parmi les séries en date les plus merveilleuses de Marvel." The Telegraph Les premières critiques sur Moon Knight sont tombées : échec ou succès pour la nouvelle série Marvel ? "Frais, drôle et parfois complètement fou, Moon Knight se démarque du MCU, à la fois dans son sujet et son ton, qui pimente la formule du super-héros avec un mélange de comédie et d'horreur, mais aussi grâce à un zest d'aventure old-school." Marvel : les premières critiques de la série Moon Knight sont tombées

Disney Plus' new Moon Knight series starring Oscar Isaac takes a familiar Marvel approach to revitalizing the image of a lesser-known Marvel hero.

Moon Knight’s focus on a suited-up brawler using his fists to battle squads of ghouls and criminals sometimes makes the show feel a bit more like the Netflix-produced series that recently made the move over to Disney Plus. But unlike Daredevil and the rest of the Defenders’ respective character studies, which each had distinct sets of themes that informed their approaches to storytelling, Moon Knight plays more like an older Marvel Studios production where the main goal is really to rehabilitate its hero’s brand. Moon Knight’s quite clear about what Steven’s actual powers are as he battles against Harrow’s goons in fights that leave him with wounds that would kill him were it not for Konshu’s magical healing granted to him through his Moon Knight suit. At the same time that Moon Knight first establishes Steven’s connection to Marc and their shared link with Khonshu, the series also begins laying how Harrow and his disciples are on the hunt for an ancient relic necessary to help him usher in a new world order defined by his extreme sense of right and wrong. As Moon Knight begins to bring all of its central characters together, you can quickly see the degree to which the series directors Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson, and Aaron Moorhead really committed to shaking up the traditional Marvel formula as opposed to putting a shiny new coat of paint on a familiar narrative. As organized as Steven tries to be about his time, he frequently loses significant chunks of it along with any memories about what happens whenever he slips into one of his mysterious fugue states. The show’s execution of that idea suffers, though, as it quickly shifts gears in order to fast-track its way to looking and feeling like an action-packed Marvel feature that’d been paused for a tangent into Steven’s life.

The Oscar-Isaac-starring Disney+ series was supposed to introduce a brand new superhero to the MCU, but 'Moon Knight' fumbles hard with poor ...

Unfortunately, while pacing like that may work for the Netflix binge model, Moon Knight is a weekly release, and fans will need to wait almost a month to reach some form of payoff. The iconic Moon Knight and Mr. Knight costumes seen in the posters and trailers aren’t used nearly as much as they should have, possibly due to CGI budget constraints. While Marvel devotees will probably tune into this series, don’t expect it to thoroughly shake up the MCU like Loki or WandaVision did. Hawke and Isaac also clearly enjoy working together, and some of the best scenes pit the two actors against one another other in non-violent struggle. Harrow is like a cross between David Koresh and Jim Jones, believing he alone has the blueprint for utopia. Moon Knight starts out boring and doesn’t pick up until more than halfway through. Moon Knight’s split personalities have some interesting Jekyll-and-Hyde implications, but the show is unwilling and unequppied to explore its protagonist’s mental health with any real care. Steven also lacks the desire to move Moon Knight’s plot forward. But Marc isn’t the only alter ego not given enough screentime. Bad pacing, repeated story beats, and a depiction of mental health that’s dubious at best all hold the show back from greatness. It’s a confounding choice, given that Steven is not the one with the combat skills or the connection to Khonshu, the Egyptian God that bestowed Marc with powers and to whom he serves. For the audience, the Spector-Grant dynamic also means the show frequently skips over what could have been many exciting action sequences.

Le vengeur masqué de Marvel débarque mercredi 30 mars sur Disney+. Au casting : Oscar Isaac ("Dune", "Star Wars") mais aussi le Français Gaspar Ulliel, ...

Mêlant tourment et humour dans un numéro moralement ambigu, l'acteur américano-guatémaltèque de 43 ans réalise une entrée tonitruante dans le MCU, à l'instar de la prestation d'un Robert Downey Jr., au meilleur de sa forme dans les films Iron Man, ou encore de la performance d'un Josh Brolin dans la peau du titan Thanos dans la saga Avengers. C'est un tout nouveau calibre de héros que Marvel Studios cherche à mettre en avant. Il joue Anton Mogart alias le criminel Midnight Man, l'un des antagonistes principaux de la série, présenté lors des premiers épisodes comme un voleur et mercenaire d'exception, excellant dans l'art de l'infiltration. Il découvre qu’il souffre d’un trouble dissociatif de l’identité et qu’il partage le même corps qu’un mercenaire, Marc Spector. Alors que l’étau se resserre sur Steven / Marc, les deux hommes, plongés dans une aventure périlleuse parmi les puissants dieux d’Égypte, vont devoir trouver leur équilibre dans cette double identité. Un jeu d'équilibristre qui le fait passer de la lumière aux ténèbres parfois de manière instantanée, notamment dans des scènes de dialogues où se confrontent les deux facettes totalement opposées du héros. En réalité, il souffre d’un trouble dissociatif de l’identité. Pendant ses "absences", il devient le mercenaire Marc Spector. Steven sera rapidement impliqué, contre son gré, dans des conflits liés aux dieux égyptiens. Franceinfo a visionné les quatre premiers épisodes et rencontré l'un des réalisateurs de la série, Mohamed Diab.

On a pu voir quatre épisodes de la nouvelle série Marvel de Disney+ et on est conquis. On essaye de vous transmettre cela sans vous spoiler quoi que ce ...

Si vous avez lu cette preview jusqu'au bout, vous penserez à nous, dans quelques semaines, avec ce cliffhanger halluciné, et on espère que vous aurez un peu d'empathie pour l'attente qu'on a subie. Tout le monde joue extrêmement bien dans Moon Knight, et Oscar Isaac mérite le triple de son salaire pour son travail schizophrénique. Il est clairement excellent, mais appuyé par le reste du casting. Et croyez nous, à présent on doit attendre plusieurs semaines pour voir la suite et la fin de Moon Knight, et c'est une vraie torture. Quand un cliché apparait, cela surprend d'autant plus (les mâles alpha sont carnivores, les froussards végétariens...) De même, l'enchainement des événements s'avère très crédible ; il est vrai que jongler avec les personnalités multiples est moins compliqué qu'avec les univers parallèles. Moon Knight verse même parfois dans l'horreur avec talent. La série nous laisse même penser qu'il pourrait y avoir une troisième personnalité à l'oeuvre... En tous cas, cette équipée, rejointe par Layla El-Faouly (jouée par May Calamawy) tente de déjouer les plans d'une secte d'une autre divinité, avec le gourou Arthur Harrow à sa tête. » Ne nous parlez pas de chance...

Dernière incursion sur Disney+ de Marvel, Moon Knight réinvente un peu la recette des studios. La nouvelle série avec Oscar Isaac réussira-t-elle à ...

Chasses aux trésors antiques façon La Momie, dédoublement de la personnalité à la Fight Club, difficile de ne pas voir où l’œuvre du showrunner Jeremy Slater a pris ses racines. On pourrait mettre cela sur le compte de tonalité plus sombre de l’œuvre dans sa globalité, mais c’est loin d’être la première fois qu’une production Marvel emprunte cette voie. Un défi puisque ce n’est pas seulement un personnage qu’il doit incarner, mais bien deux protagonistes aux personnalités bien différentes. Isaac s’en sort avec les honneurs, impeccable à chacune de ses apparitions. Un véritable travail de texture qui se retrouve aussi du côté des costumes, incroyablement soignés dans cette série qui sonne comme une invitation au voyage. Marvel recrute ainsi Oscar Isaac, qui a su s’imposer comme un immanquable de la pop culture. Elle ne fait pas partie des séries interdites aux enfants sur la plateforme, à l’instar de Pam & Tommy ou Dopesick, les chérubins pourront donc la découvrir sans soucis. Dernière incursion sur Disney+ de Marvel, Moon Knight réinvente un peu la recette des studios. Il expliquait à plusieurs reprises avoir voulu s’écarter du regard que portent les productions américaines sur l’Afrique du Nord, et sur ce point c’est plutôt réussi. La recette Marvel commencerait-elle à lasser ? Quand on observe les chiffres au box-office, la réponse à cette épineuse question est clairement non. Aidé par un montage aux petits oignons, Moon Knight embrasse ses différentes inspirations, sans jamais tomber dans le pastiche. La plateforme s’attaque à un personnage plutôt intéressant, et veut aborder la psychiatrie par son prisme. Il est bien difficile de savoir ce qui fait de Moon Knight un véritable succès, tant on retrouve des éléments familiers dans la construction de l’intrigue, Marvel n’a pas inventé les pyramides, mais livre une œuvre singulière dans un univers ultra-codifié. De la mise en scène au traitement de son sujet, Moon Knight nous surprend à plusieurs égards.

Based on the original Marvel comic book character Moon Knight, the miniseries will launch only on streaming service Disney+.

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Today's the day Marvel's newest series Moon Knight officially premieres on Disney+. Last night, show creator Jeremy Slater did a Twitter question and answer ...

In the comics, Moon Knight is quite bloody. — Jeremy Slater (@jerslater)March 29, 2022 Looks like the show’s creator is a fan of Amadeus. — Jeremy Slater (@jerslater)March 29, 2022 Because his only recognizable villain was Bushman, who just felt too close to Black Panther's Erik Killmonger. So we decided to invent a villain instead. — Jeremy Slater (@jerslater)March 29, 2022 According to Slater, they had a “real-life Egyptian archaeologist on speed-dial.” — Jeremy Slater (@jerslater)March 29, 2022 — Jeremy Slater (@jerslater)March 29, 2022 After that general meeting, Slater started working with Marvel creative executives Grant Curtis and Nick Pepin in July or August of 2019 to develop a pitch for the show. — Jeremy Slater (@jerslater)March 29, 2022 Once I saw Moon Knight's name on there, I was all in.https://t.co/mGrWgUdghH

Despite the centrality of a mental break to its proceedings, Marvel's 'Moon Knight' largely pretends at psychological depth. Read our review.

As such, Moon Knight quickly loses sight of the personal, concerning itself with the fate of the world rather than the lives of its denizens—becoming less interesting, less human, as the conflict escalates. Despite the centrality of a mental break to its proceedings, Moon Knight largely pretends at psychological depth. At others, the physical environment elucidates the psyches of the two personalities, like when their eye contact through the blade of a knife captures Steven’s dumbfounded fear in the face of violence. But their interactions grow tiresome due to Marc’s overwhelming blandness, as he’s confined to the familiar mold of the tough, emotionally withholding alpha. Marc reluctantly loops Steven in on Khonshu’s latest directive: to smite Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), the prophet of a cult attempting to resurrect a goddess whose return would, for murky reasons, spell catastrophe. The funny, odd, and touching first episode of the Marvel Studios original series Moon Knight homes in on its central character’s eccentricity.

Le réalisateur Mohamed Diab raconte à « 20 Minutes » comment il s'est battu pour pouvoir mettre en scène « Moon Knight », la nouvelle série Marvel ...

Je lui ai dit à la fin qu’une fois que la série serait sortie, même si le rôle est petit, Marvel et les fans de Marvel auraient envie de le revoir. J’espère que la prochaine fois, nous tournerons en Egypte et que je pourrai montrer encore plus de choses sur la culture et le peuple égyptien. La personne la plus forte dans mon foyer est ma mère. Enfin, j’ai eu l’occasion de montrer la vivacité et l’humour égyptien. Je voulais vraiment partager cela avec le monde. Il est arrivé sur le plateau très humblement, comme si c’était son tout premier jour de tournage, alors que je sais à quel point il est important en France. J’ai aimé ses questions et travaillé avec lui. Oscar est celui qui a le plus contribué. Il a eu l’idée de l’accent par exemple, qui permet de mieux les distinguer. C’est un petit pas dans la bonne direction pour montrer l’Egypte aussi réelle que possible. Maintenant, le monde va la connaître. Ce n’est pas la dernière fois que vous verrez May ! J’ai parlé du montage, de la façon dont je voulais mettre en scène l’action, de mes références en matière d’action. Nous avons aussi discuté de la direction artistique, des thèmes visuels, de comment je pourrais refléter à l’écran les sentiments de Mark et Steven. Dans presque toutes les scènes, on peut voir une ombre ou quelque chose qui reflète l’idée de dualité, mais aussi parfois, le fait de se sentir en cage. Alors que Le Caire est l’une des plus grandes villes du monde, on la montre toujours avec une pyramide dans le désert ! Ensuite, nous avons un personnage féminin fort, comme dans tous mes films. J’ai regardé tous les films qui avaient un lien avec la dualité, pour apprendre. Moon Knight est l’une des séries les plus attendues de l’année ! Vingt-quatre heures après sa mise en ligne, la bande-annonce cumulait déjà 75 millions de vues. Avec ma femme, on a écrit un pitch de deux cents pages qui parlait de tout.

With the premiere of Marvel's Moon Knight on Disney+, fans will at last get a chance to see the first live-action iteration of a Marvel Comics character who ...

I think he blends in nicely with the rest of the MCU. As a fanboy, I can’t wait to see where he lands next.” I don’t think there’s too many corners of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that Moon Knight could not touch if that’s where he goes next. While we haven’t seen the full slate of episodes yet, it doesn’t seem likely that Spector is going to page any Avengers who happen to be around for help.

Grâce aux comics, on en sait plus sur le nouveau superhéros sombre de Marvel alors que l'épisode 1 est disponible aujourd'hui.

Néanmoins, en se référant aux comics, il est possible de faire la lumière sur les éléments éludés. Dans ce premier épisode, les histoires de Marc Spector et Steven Grant sont révélées à l’envers et Steven découvre son lien avec le dieu de la Lune, Khonshu, en même temps que le public. Moon Knight, dont le premier épisode est sorti aujourd’hui sur Disney+, nous introduit un nouveau héros dans le MCU. Incarné par Oscar Isaac, connu pour son rôle de Poe Dameron dans la nouvelle trilogie Star Wars, ce nouveau venu cristallise toute l’attention des fans.

Oscar Isaac faces the dark side of the Moon (Knight). Disney Plus. There's a lot going on in Steven Grant's head. The hapless hero of Marvel's new Disney ...

Moon Knight isn't as confrontationally crazy as Legion -- the cinematography is the usual Marvel muddiness compared with Legion's kaleidoscopic visuals. Some viewers may not get it -- Isaac referenced British comedies and comedians like The Office and Peter Sellers -- and some superhero fans may not like a show that barely has any superhero elements. His British accent helps -- it may not be the most accurate London accent ever (I'm British, FYI), but the "bruvs" and "bollocks" and one well-placed "wagwan" are good for a laugh. There's a big action scene in episode 1 that puts a fresh twist on a familiar action scene, playing out as a complement to (and perhaps a gentle send-up of) the showpiece car chases in Hawkeye, Falcon and Winter Soldier and indeed any movie with a breathless chase sequence. The writing, the direction, the visuals, even the show-stopping editing all pull together to make Moon Knight such a singular experience. The series even segues into horror territory, from a terrifying corridor stalked by a skull-headed monster to a sinister scene in which the extras in the background are revealed to not be what they seem.

Le premier épisode de Moon Knight sera disponible ce mercredi 30 mars 2022. Nous avons vu les 4 premiers épisodes. Cette nouvelle série Marvel livre une ...

Il n’est pas le même lorsqu’il est porté par Marc ou par Steven, ce qui, là encore, offre une petite spécificité agréable. Il se retrouve soudain dans un autre environnement, un autre lieu, et dans une situation souvent périlleuse. La vie de Steven est régulièrement perturbée, par intermittence, par ces événements étranges où rien ne semble avoir du sens. Moon Knight est une série empreinte de mystique. Lorsque les réminiscences de son autre vie commencent à perturber le sommeil de Steven Grant, ce dernier ne comprend pas trop ce qui lui arrive. Dans Moon Knight, dont le premier épisode est disponible ce mercredi 30 mars 2022, Oscar Isaac enfile le costume du héros du même nom. En creusant pour en apprendre davantage sur cette autre identité, il s’embarque dans une aventure n’impliquant rien de moins que des dieux égyptiens.

Gift shop worker Steven Grant channels the power of Egyptian god Khonshu in Marvel's Moon Knight. Read Empire's review now.

But thanks to the inspired inception of Isaac’s Steven Grant, and a story that judiciously places the central character’s humanity on a level with his heroics, Marvel’s newest addition shoots for the moon and largely hits its mark. Marvel’s first TV series in this new MCU-integrated era to introduce a new headline character, Moon Knight is – four episodes in – a boldly bonkers affair that manages to capture the same giddy joy imbued in Hawkeye and Loki. In taking a relatively obscure character and leaning into his more eccentric elements, writer Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four, The Umbrella Academy) has delivered something that feels genuinely different from any corner of the MCU yet explored — somehow managing to make Egyptian gods canon in the process. What’s remarkable, however, is not that this six-part series is Marvel’s take on An Idiot Abroad, but that Isaac’s Grant very quickly establishes himself as the show’s — and possibly the whole of Phase Four’s — most joyous new addition.

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The fact that it can be watched on its own terms is icing on the cake. But there’s a high-stepping riskiness to its first four episodes that is a good look for a studio that’s often more careful than it is wild. Certainly it’s exciting that the sort of work actors like Isaac and Hawke get to do when they inevitably end up doing their Marvel tour of duty can push this far into disorientation, into insecurity. The two actors are locked in a battle for the future of Earth in which both call on the powers of ancient divinity — and the intrigue comes from the fact that Isaac’s characters are only fitfully aware of the rules of the game. A huge part of that is owed to Oscar Isaac and to Ethan Hawke, two actors whom the series trusts with edgy material that makes the first “Doctor Strange” look, well, like Doctor Normal. We meet Isaac as Steven Grant, a museum gift-shop employee who’s haunted by what happens in his mind when he sleeps, when he finds himself overtaken by a force he cannot understand. At times, “Moon Knight’s” first four episodes resemble the early going of “WandaVision,” which was similarly unabashed about using shifts in tone to convey the roiling of a mind troubled by the pressure of needing to save the world.

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D’autant plus avec ce héros inconnu des fans et sans lien avec la galaxie des Avengers. Si j’ai dit oui à Moon Knight, c’est pour faire dérailler le train Marvel et mener une étude de caractère sur Steven Grant», confie, sourire en coin, Oscar Isaac au Figaro. Le comédien cubano-guatémaltèque aussi à l’aise chez les frères Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis) et Paul Schrader (The Card Counter) que dans les grosses productions (Dune, Star Wars) est la dernière recrue de choix de Marvel pour incarner une de ses séries inédites pour Disney+. Après Loki et WandaVision, Moon Knight confirme que c’est à la télévision que Kevin Feige, le président des Studios Marvel, sort de sa zone de confort. MoonKnight: «C'est la collaboration la plus créative dans laquelle j'ai joué» - Regarder sur Figaro Live

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It’s characteristic of the Marvel Disney+ shows that the ability of the performers exceeds the inventiveness of the crew — writers and directors seem to be hired for competence rather than distinctive vision. There are a lot of issues swimming around in “Moon Knight,” including its treatment of ancient Egyptian culture, its presentation of its Middle Eastern milieu and its depiction of its hero’s mental health issues. And while it’s unfair to wish that every desert or jungle adventure could be directed by Steven Spielberg (or Robert Zemeckis, or J.J. Abrams), “Moon Knight” won’t stop you from doing so. But onscreen, presenting Cairo in a new light ( in interviews, Diab has said this was a priority) seems to consist of making it look like every other world capital. But the show generates most of its drama and humor, and a number of its visual effects, from their inability to coexist. As they try to stop a sanctimonious bad guy from resurrecting a rival Egyptian deity, enduring chases, desert treks and crunchingly violent battles, they grudgingly trade off possession of their shared body.

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Disney Plus offers parental controls in the form of kids profiles. The app for streaming boxes, like Roku and Apple TV, is also designed to briefly flash a symbol telling you the format that you're watching; it appears in the upper right corner of the screen for a few seconds when a video begins to play. It has all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies available to stream, with the exception of ones that were made by Universal or Sony. (So, that's why you won't find the Tom Holland Spider-Man films on Disney Plus, even though you can stream Holland portraying Spider-Man in Disney-made MCU movies like Avengers: Endgame.) Disney Plus also integrates programming from Fox. All 30 seasons of The Simpsons are on Disney Plus, it's begun adding X-Men franchise films, and titles like The Sound of Music, The Princess Bride and Malcolm in the Middle live there too. Paramount Plus charges $5 for its tier with advertising, and $10 for the ad-free version. But Disney Plus allows all subscribers to stream to four devices and access 4K content at no extra cost -- features Netflix charges $20 a month to unlock its premium tier. Those who prepurchased a Disney Plus plan such as the now-expired three-year discounted subscription deal can stack their one free year on top of it, according to a Verizon FAQ. The standalone Disney Plus service costs comparable amounts in other countries in their local currencies. Disney Plus is already among the cheapest streaming services of its kind, and Disney executives have repeatedly noted that Disney Plus' relatively low subscription price would go up as the service pumps itself full of more programming. The movie is essentially skipping cinemas to be a straight-to-streaming release anywhere Disney Plus is operating. (The film won't be released in Russia, however, as Disney has paused all theatrical releases in the country because of the invasion of Ukraine.) Some people refer to this as the date it started streaming for "free," but everything on Disney Plus requires a paid subscription.

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For Isaac, the effect is a little like Danny Kaye in the classic "The Court Jester," switching from swashbuckling hero to nebbish with a snap of his fingers. Spector is being pursued by Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), the leader of a cult-like group eager to find an obscure artifact he believes to be in Steven/Marc's possession. And while the title character's eye-catching costume serves as a defining feature of the comics and series, the truth is you don't see him in it very much, while failing to create clear parameters regarding what precisely the hero can do.

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Evidemment, car en plus, « Moon Knight » montre aussi bien l'Egypte actuelle que la partie mythologique. Ce troisième épisode de « Moon Knight » lui est d'ailleurs dédié. Il s'entendait très bien avec toute l'équipe, c'était un professionnel, et je pense que son personnage aurait marqué les fans de Marvel. Son décès est vraiment tragique. Dans ce jeu de dupes, les acteurs s'amusent comme des fous, Oscar Isaac en tête. L'interprète de Poe Dameron dans les derniers films « Star Wars », ou du patriarche Atréïde dans « Dune » a l'occasion de composer avec des personnalités multiples. En face, Ethan Hawke compose un antagoniste à la fois séduisant et inquiétant, tandis que May Calamawy offre une bonne contrepartie aux héros. Enfin F. Murray Abraham donne une voix terrifiante à Khonshu. Alors que l’étau se resserre sur Steven/Marc, les deux hommes, plongés dans une aventure périlleuse parmi les puissants dieux d’Égypte, vont devoir trouver leur équilibre dans cette double identité.

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Diab directs four of the six, including two of the episodes given to critics. For viewers who have increasingly complained that the MCU plays it too safe, too rarely risks going big and weird, Moon Knight may provide some of what they want. Finally, Abraham does a lot with a little, making Khonshu seem violent, cruel, selfish, and intensely lonely with limited lines and an evolving tone of voice. With less than two hours left, the show has several pieces in play but none particularly close to resolution. When they don’t in episode two, viewers end up back in the realm of the goofy. The fourth episode suggests a certain awareness of this necessity. Mohamed Diab and the team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead split directing duties on the series. It’s not so much inaccurate about DID as it is the same old visual language. Scenes of the god’s giant skeletal bird body wandering through a well-attended bazaar or relaxing against a car are strong mergers of the bizarre and benign. Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke)—the series villain—has a far less eye-catching but nonetheless appropriate look. At its best, it demonstrates how quickly and easily the diagnosis can get you marginalized. In doing so, all involved failed to mention how much stranger it would be than the average MCU streamer.

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But given the grand praise that Moon Knight is receiving, hopefully, he will be back for a second season and more future superhero adventures. The poor critical reviews and unexciting trailers led to a truly terrible box office run, grossing only $167 million worldwide. All of these difficulties resulted in a widely panned final product that suffered from uninteresting characters, poor visuals, and an unnecessarily dark tone... Fortunately, that wasn't something Slater had to worry about with Moon Knight: Throughout the production, there were reports of on-set difficulties with Trank, last-minute budget cuts, and even studio-mandated reshoots. The widely-panned flick introduced audiences to Miles Teller's Mr. Fantastic, Kara Mara's Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan's Human Torch, and Jamie Bell's Ben Grimm.

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The producers also worked with mental health experts to make sure they were sensitive to one of the other major traits that separates Moon Knight from Batman and other heroes: his struggles with dissociative identity disorder. So our approach in the writers’ room was to push the boundaries of how weird we can make it.” (The other two are directed by the indie horror duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead because, according to Curtis, “Nobody does ‘bump in the night’ better.”) That’s partly why Slater said he leaned away from that side of the character in his pitch to Marvel. Curtis said that maintaining the “fallibility” of Moon Knight was essential. The early Moon Knight stories introduced a cast of characters who in the many different iterations have generally stuck around. The Moench and Sienkiewicz run on Moon Knight was notable for its noir-influenced visual style and tone, thick with long shadows and moral ambiguity. Created by the writer Doug Moench and the artist Don Perlin, Moon Knight debuted in a 1975 issue of the horror-adventure comic Werewolf by Night as a mercenary out to capture the series’s title monster. They fleshed out the origin story, establishing a lot of the lore that has survived through decades of reboots and retcons. “Anytime a character is getting turned into Legos and Funkos, there are going to be a lot of people weighing in,” Slater said. In recent video calls, we spoke with Slater and a “Moon Knight” executive producer, Grant Curtis, about the choices they made and about the history of one of Marvel Comics’s most unusual creations. “But we really had a lot of latitude with Moon Knight.”

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While it remains to be seen just how widespread the Cult of Ammit is, this Harrow is definitely a far more powerful and dangerous man than the mad doctor version of the character from the comics. However, the end of the episode reveals that "Moon Knight" absolutely intends to go all in with the source material. While the discovery of Marc's phone finally clues Steven in to the fact that he shares his body with another identity, it also spirals his life further into horror. This seems like a pretty wild concept for live action, and indeed, the majority of "Moon Knight" Episode 1 makes it seem that the show intends to keep such interactions at a relatively muted "voices inside the head" level. It's clear that this has been going on for a long time, and "Moon Knight" Episode 1 is when the levee finally breaks. Let's take a closer look at the ending of "Moon Knight" Episode 1.

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Episodes are directed by Mohamed Diab and by the team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and the care all take with setting up a neat and tidy world to summarily destroy lends a unifying sense that anything could happen throughout "Moon Knight." At times, "Moon Knight's" first four episodes resemble the early going of "WandaVision," which was similarly unabashed about using shifts in tone to convey the roiling of a mind troubled by the pressure of needing to save the world. A huge part of that is owed to Oscar Isaac and to Ethan Hawke, two actors whom the series trusts with edgy material that makes the first "Doctor Strange" look, well, like Doctor Normal. Now the studio steps yet further out with "Moon Knight," its fifth live-action Disney Plus series, and its first to be solely based on a character who hasn't yet featured heavily in onscreen adventures. That series ended up, in its final moments, reverting to form; despite terrific work by Elizabeth Olsen at its centre, the conclusion of "WandaVision" looked like a Marvel movie, which is to say professionally made, blunt, and familiar. With "WandaVision," the first of its series to stream on Disney Plus, the studio used familiar characters to animate a story that, in its early going, was substantially more pliable and strange than what they were willing to attempt in a heavily leveraged movie.

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After Steven wakes up outside London with the scarab in his pocket, he tries to hide in a crowd gathered in a nearby village to witness Harrow carry out Ammit’s judgment. While Harrow was a character who first appeared in Moon Knight comics in the ’80s, the Disney+ series appears to have completely rewritten him in all but name. When he meets Steven later in the episode, the glass is still audibly crunching with his every step as Harrow moves among a mass of people like a messianic figure, his followers bowing in his presence. Just as Steven is beginning to realize that Marc is sharing his body, his apartment starts to shake, and the lights flicker all around him. While not every episode will necessarily contain enough horror elements to require a dedicated examination, “The Goldfish Problem” features a fun, creepy sequence that had been teased in the lead-up to Moon Knight. For as much talk as there is about Ammit in the premiere, she, unlike Khonshu, is nowhere to be seen. As Khonshu continues to berate Steven for being weak and stupid, the question of who’s “in control” of Steven’s body becomes a recurring dilemma, as Khonshu, Steven, and Marc fight to take it over. And though from one moment to the next he alternates between reading up on the Egyptian gods in the Ennead (which he knows a lot about) and fiddling with a Rubik’s Cube, Steven suddenly wakes up outside of his room—far beyond the city limits of London—with his jaw jacked up, a gold-plated scarab in his pocket, and gun-toting men chasing after him. Marc summons the suit and it wraps around his body, before Moon Knight begins to pummel the jackal on the bathroom floor. Though Marc would physically put on the Moon Knight costume in the comics, the TV series has made his connection to the suit something supernatural. Marc Spector, the alternate personality with whom Steven shares his mind, appears to him but can’t be seen except when Steven sees and talks to him(self) in mirrors, like Norman Osborn as he discovers the duality of his identity in Spider-Man. And Moon Knight gets less screen time than a security guard who has a fondness for otter videos. Grant may be the protagonist of Moon Knight, but he isn’t the only one living in his body.