In the world of comics, Moon Knight has often been seen as Marvel's Batman rip-off. After all, he's a caped crusader who has an alter-ego as a wealthy playboy. But the MCU is taking a very different approach to the character that isn't looking to "beat Batman at his own game."
Talking to Empire magazine for issue #399, Moon Knight's head writer and executive producer, Jeremy Slater, opened up about the parallels between Bruce Wayne and Moon Knight's Steven Grant. "It was never a comparison I was interested in making," he said. "Batman has an 80-year head start on us: you're not going to beat Batman at his own game. We've seen that side of Moon Knight [in some comics] as a playboy philanthropist, throwing moon-shaped boomerangs, flying around in a moon-shaped plane, but I don't think that's the coolest possible version of the character."
Swapping wealth for mental health, Steven Grant in the Moon Knight MCU show is a gift shop employee struggling with trauma and flashbacks to a life that's not his own. The show will also apparently lean heavily on Egyptology, with the adventures of Indiana Jones being a touchstone (albeit it blended with the darkness of Moon Knight's story). As such, while there certainly looks to be big capes and boomerangs and brutal violence, the show should hopefully feel quite different to everyone's favourite wealthy bat-shaped detective.
For more from Moon Knight, take a look at the differences between the MCU and comics versions, as well as why Oscar Isaac has such a strange accent.
Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.
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Talking to Empire magazine for issue #399, Moon Knight's head writer and executive producer, Jeremy Slater, opened up about the parallels between Bruce Wayne and Moon Knight's Steven Grant. "It was never a comparison I was interested in making," he said. "Batman has an 80-year head start on us: you're not going to beat Batman at his own game. We've seen that side of Moon Knight [in some comics] as a playboy philanthropist, throwing moon-shaped boomerangs, flying around in a moon-shaped plane, but I don't think that's the coolest possible version of the character."
Swapping wealth for mental health, Steven Grant in the Moon Knight MCU show is a gift shop employee struggling with trauma and flashbacks to a life that's not his own. The show will also apparently lean heavily on Egyptology, with the adventures of Indiana Jones being a touchstone (albeit it blended with the darkness of Moon Knight's story). As such, while there certainly looks to be big capes and boomerangs and brutal violence, the show should hopefully feel quite different to everyone's favourite wealthy bat-shaped detective.
For more from Moon Knight, take a look at the differences between the MCU and comics versions, as well as why Oscar Isaac has such a strange accent.
Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.
Continue reading...