Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac recently suggested that the upcoming Disney+ show will not see a second season.
Speaking to Jared Leto for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” session, Isaac discussed his knowledge of Moon Knight before he took on the role. “I’d never heard of Moon Knight before, and I collected comics when I was younger,” he explained. “I’d heard of Morbius, but I’d never heard of Moon Knight. I don’t know how the process was for you because it’s a feature film, we’re a limited series.”
Being a “limited series” suggests no plans for future episodes beyond the six scheduled to premiere. Moon Knight is far from unique with regard to being a limited series, as the majority of Marvel’s Disney+ television series fall into the same category. At the time of writing, Loki and What If…? are the only Marvel shows that have been renewed for a second season. Moon Knight will be the sixth Marvel Disney+ television series, and the first of 2022.
Isaac also touched on how Moon Knight being a series allowed for a lot more experimentation. “There was a lot of room to try stuff because there wasn’t the pressure that we got to make sure we make however many hundreds of millions of dollars on the opening weekend,” Isaac added. “So we could make it very point-of-view. We could make very weird decisions. At the moment, at least — and I don’t imagine it’s going to go backwards — it feels like that’s where more of the risk is being taken because it can financially.”
The series is set to follow Steven Grant, a gift-shop employee who struggles with dissociative identity disorder and experiences flashbacks from a supposed second life, lived by a Marc Spector. The official Moon Knight synopsis teases the character is then “thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.”
Directed by Mohamed Diab and duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Moon Knight will also star Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, a villainous cult leader who tries to lead Spector astray. Both Hawke and Isaac recently reacted to the Moon Knight trailer, which broke the record for the most-liked first trailer of a Marvel Disney+ series.
Moon Knight premieres on Disney+ on March 30.
Source: Variety
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