What would you change to the MCU's Moon Knight?
I don't know how many similar posts have been made but Imma just post it anyway.
Anyways, What would you change about the MCU's Moon Knight? And what would remain the same? Give me your takes. The longer, the better.
I would change: From Series to a Movie Rated R Set in the "dirty parts" of New York Make it a revenge/mystery story, Inspired by Taxi Driver (Have a section where Jake is trailing someone and is narrating in a taxi in the streets of NYC). Bushman as the main villain. Explore all 3 personalities. Don't explore the egyptian mythologies yet. Make Khonshu useful.
Make Mr Knight more intimidating.
Thing I would keep: Oscar Isaac. The DID exploration of the show. Steven as the face innocence, Jake as the face violence, and Marc as both. Steven being british (I really love that change) May Calamawy. Marc's trauma. The costume change for every personalities. Moon Knight's suit.
Anyways, What would you change about the MCU's Moon Knight? And what would remain the same? Give me your takes. The longer, the better.
I would change: From Series to a Movie Rated R Set in the "dirty parts" of New York Make it a revenge/mystery story, Inspired by Taxi Driver (Have a section where Jake is trailing someone and is narrating in a taxi in the streets of NYC). Bushman as the main villain. Explore all 3 personalities. Don't explore the egyptian mythologies yet. Make Khonshu useful.
Make Mr Knight more intimidating.
Thing I would keep: Oscar Isaac. The DID exploration of the show. Steven as the face innocence, Jake as the face violence, and Marc as both. Steven being british (I really love that change) May Calamawy. Marc's trauma. The costume change for every personalities. Moon Knight's suit.
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I hate when companies cast popular actors just to attract an audience. Same thing with pedro pascal for reed richards.
I don't think I have ever seen Pedro Pascal performing until The Fantastic Four and that's saying something.
Sorry I don't really watch streaming series. Maybe three or four series a year and that's enough. I think I watched 5, which is a lot for this year (Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Dexter: Resurrection, High Potential, Marvel Zombies, Hazbin Hotel)
Edit: Actually it was 7, DD:BA and Eyes of Wakanda, but those two were out of obligation mostly.
OR… The y know him but don’t know it. Legend.
2. More seasons.
Do a second season where Marc and Stephen falling out of favor with Khonshu makes it a more street-level adventure.
- Inspire more questions in the audience about what is *real* and what isnt.
- Moon Knight felt like a story about one guys pespective/struggle with DiD, and not an exploration of how his personalities interact with eachother and the world.
- No giant CGI monster/god fight on top of the Pyramids. (The fact this hasnt come up again since is wild)
>No giant CGI monster/god fight on top of the Pyramids. (The fact this hasnt come up again since is wild)
100% agree. A useful and cool storytelling tool while the wool was over the audiences eyes.
lol but seriously who liked this and why?
And in Moon Knight they found a way to break out of it with a clever use of the split personalities. The series still had satisfying action scenes once the characters were established and I think they did a fantastic job breaking out of the mold.
It has nothing to do with there being too much action and not enough plot. The problem is the plots are too convoluted. The action we’re getting has been bland as shit outside of three movies, Deadpool 3, Spider-Man 3, and Guardians 3. Honorable mention for Shang Chi, I thought it was cool but I still don’t get why I’m supposed to care about him or what his role is in the MCU.
Nah, just ignore all that and make his mom an alcoholic.
I feel the finale really rushed into doing the big superfight/teamup without enough organic setup, and just one more episode could have helped. It especially felt forced after She-Hulk specifically called out the Marvel TV formula.
Cutting away from the action was a huge mistake. Again, it works once or twice, but it happened almost every time. I'm not an action junkie, the strength of the MCU is the character work, but that doesn't mean you can get away with hiding the action every time.
What did the show do for those who enjoyed it?
lets make this name confusing.
Give him his own movie, maybe a team up with him and Shang Chi fighting something super natural in San Francisco do this two years ago
But I think it did a good job of portraying how disorienting the blackouts were. And yes we're left wanting to know what happened, but that's because the show is putting us in his shoes. I dunno, action is cool and all, but I really liked the psychological aspect, so I'm fine with how it went.
The Blade/Moon Knight avatar from the animated realm.
And bring back F Murray Abraham
~ The London/Egypt setting was brilliant as it allowed us the viewers to immediately hop into the series without having to do any “homework” and better representation. Also justifies the lack any Avenger involvement
~ Taweret as the source of (much needed) comic relief and levity
~ Harrow being at least somewhat sympathetic to Marc and Steven
**CHANGE**
~ Have Ammit fuse with Harrow ostensibly to keep a closer eye on her avatar but also to make the final battle more epic than Ethan Hawke with a shark grabber toy and magic hands
Said fusion would be Khonshu and Lockley’s final battle, but Marc and Steven’s would be confronting an illusion of Wendy Spector being the latter two’s final battle (basically a distraction by the other two to ensure they don’t witness and/or interfere)
Marc and Steven assume the ultra carnage was Harrow’s doing with the final few moments showing a YouTube video of Jake going to town on the cultists (bonus points if uploaded by Bushman)
~ Either incorporate the psych ward/insane asylum more into the narrative or ditch it altogether
~ Have Ammit (temporarily) consume the Ennead with the souls provided by Harrow having given her a boost and allowing the goddess to “level up”
~ A “Once More, With Clarity” sequence confirming (or denying) Spector’s fugue state was actually the “birth” of Jake Lockley and Lockley being the one to painfully end Wendy’s life for the suffering inflicted on his “brothers”
Go back to the initial Moench/Sienkievicz Moon Knight run - first the incredibly adult back-ups in the Rampaging Hulk magazine (not the Hulk comic, there was a more adult themed Hulk magazine that came out in the 70s, and the Moon Knight back-ups set up the entire character of MK). Then the first 25 issues or so of his first solo series, as well as elements from the Charlie Huston series (a true horror comic, at least the first 12 issues). Mix in the Warren Ellis run (the issue where it is basically The Raid: Redemption but with Moon Knight fighting his way to the top floor to rescue a little girl is stellar and better than anything they did in the show). Use the Lemire stuff specifically for some of the mental health aspects of the show (which, to their credit, they did to an extent in the first season).
And set the shit out of it squarely in the Monster-verse, and make it as adult-themed as possible. Werewolf by Night is one of the best things to come out of Marvel since Endgame, so you already have a foundation to work with, and there is so much lore from that side of the Marvel Universe.
Ah, but it is but a dream.
- I'm British.