Ethan Hawke is the latest Hollywood star to make the jump to the MCU. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hawke has been cast as the main villain of the Moon Knight series on Disney+. THR doesn't indicate which character Hawke is playing, only describing the role as "the lead villain" of the series. Hawke will star opposite Oscar Isaac, who has reportedly been cast as the supernatural vigilante. Production on the series is expected to begin in Budapest in March 2021. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/26/oscar-isaac-in-talks-for-disney-pluss-moon-knight"] Moon Knight doesn't have the largest rogues gallery in the Marvel Universe, which may help narrow down the pool of candidates. Given the character's ethnicity in the comics, we can probably assume Hawke isn't playing Moon Knight's frequent nemesis Raoul Bushman. Moon Knight's rogues gallery also includes villains like Killer Shrike, Black Spectre and the Sun King, any of whom could make sense for the series. However, it's just as likely Hawke won't be playing a traditional supervillain. He could be the leader of The Committee (the criminal cartel that hires Moon Knight in his very first appearance) or even the physical manifestation of the moon god Khonshu. Hawke's casting is certainly unexpected, given both the actor's tendency to avoid mainstream Hollywood franchises and his past comments criticizing the superhero movie genre. "Now we have the problem that they tell us Logan is a great movie," Hawke said in 2018. "Well, it’s a great superhero movie. It still involves people in tights with metal coming out of their hands. It’s not Bresson. It’s not Bergman. But they talk about it like it is.” Hopefully Hawke's decision to sign on for the MCU is a good sign for Moon Knight fans. Marvel first announced the Moon Knight series at D23 in August 2019. At one time, Kevin Feige indicated that Moon Knight and some of Marvel's other Disney+ series' such as She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel would all wrap production by the end of 2020. Ultimately, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic delayed that timetable and many of the original production dates were pushed back. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvel-cinematic-universe-every-upcoming-movie-and-tv-show&captions=true"] WandaVision, however, is releases on Disney+ on January 15, as the first entry in an ambitious new lineup of TV series' designed to be more closely integrated with Marvel's movies. For more about the studio's future slate of projects and releases, read our breakdown of the biggest and most noteworthy developments in the MCU, on Disney+ and in Marvel's comics this year. Hawke's casting is the latest big MCU news to drop in recent days. We also learned Chris Evans may be in talks to return as Steve Rogers, while a leaked action figure may have revealed a major spoiler for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.
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