Moon Knight’s New Promo Teases the Supernatural Vigilante Within

Next week, the MCU’s latest superhero Moon Knight will lastly debut his solo sequence on Disney+. The hype for Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector (or the curiously accented Stephen Grant, relying on who you ask) could be very a lot actual, and a brand new promo for the present provides new footage to carry followers over for the subsequent ten days.

Where current clips and trailers have been extra centered on whether Stephen can inform the distinction between his waking life and goals, this promo is all about how cool the Knight is as a personality. While Stephen’s understandably freaked out to be taught he has dissociative id dysfunction and has been residing a wholly completely different life (properly, two, since there’s additionally the detective persona Mr. Knight), Marc has no bother explaining how as Moon Knight, he’s able to defending the harmless and “deliver justice” utilizing his preventing expertise and crescent blades.

After earlier materials veered extra into horror and blurring actuality, it’s admittedly good to see Moon Knight simply be a superhero. It’s enjoyable watching him prowl across the metropolis at night time in full costume or leap into motion along with his cape trying like a crescent moon. Moon Knight’s all the time been one of many extra stranger B-list avenue heroes of the Marvel pantheon—see the current Jed Mackay/Alessandro Cappuccio run, together with the 2014 run from Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey. The present appears prefer it’ll hit that candy spot of bizarre, however cool fairly properly, such because the sight of Marc doing a twisted magical woman transformation into his full Moon Knight costume.

Stephen will ultimately be received over and discover some enjoyable in being a superhero, however it received’t be all enjoyable and video games. Very briefly, the promo additionally provides a bit extra of an concept as to the threats that Moon Knight will face, resembling Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow and no matter plans he’s cooking up. (The indisputable fact that he tells Stephen to “embrace chaos” and slams a employees on the bottom earlier than the digital camera cuts to a large shot of purple lightning doesn’t bode properly.) There’s additionally a fast glimpse at Moon Knight working away from a model of the Egyptian god Khonshu (his deity) in midair. In a clip from earlier within the week, Khonshu (voiced by F. Murray Abraham) was seen stalking Stephen at his condo, and it seems that now he’s executed taking part in good and desires to get Moon Knight in his claws for no matter function.

Moon Knight will premiere on Disney+ on March 30.

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