The next brand new series of Marvelwhich will be transmitted by Disney Pluswill arrive this week Moon Knightthe mini series that will consist of 6 episodes and tells us about a comic book hero brought to the screen, a man who suffers from severe personality disorders and distortions of reality, things that he believes are only in his mind, but go much further.
Now that we are counting down, since it will arrive on the streaming platform next Wednesday March 30thsome curiosities have come out that its director would like to talk to us about, because according to Muhammad Diabthe movies before have let us see very little of the real Egypt.
That’s right, its director says that part of the objective of the character’s series is to show Egypt as a place beyond the pyramids and deserts that Western cinema and television have always painted, because during some recent interviews, before the premiere of the series, the director Muhammad Diabwas candid about how one of his goals for the show was to help normalize the look of his home.
During an interview with IGN, he said he would try to “portray ourselves as human beings”as he added that seeing his people portrayed in a particular way, where women are submissive and men wander through the desert, is an idea that bothers him, because it does not come close to reality: “We call it ‘Orientalism.’ We are always naked, always sexy. Always bad, and always exaggerated”.
He mentioned as an example Wonder Woman 1984, because for him the 2020 film did not show reality and criticized its section in Cairo, calling it as “a shame”well “it looked like the desert… Egypt looked like a country from the Middle Ages”and as he comments, his role through Moon Knightwill try to make it true to how it looks in the real world, which means it wouldn’t just be pyramids throughout the six-episode series.
“We always see the pyramids in the middle of the desert.” “If you look a little to the right, the pyramids are in the middle of the city. There are twenty million people, and we have skyscrapers, and it’s a normal place like this.”
So after reading all the comics of Moon Knightprepared to give a good show, so devil he praised the comics for making an authentic Egypt, all of that is what attracted him and convinced him to be at the helm of the series, and he and his producer wife, Sarah Goherthey created a 200-page program to work on the program.
So he feels ready, to bring real Egyptian history to the show’s plot and main character, on screen in a more direct way that comics don’t always allow, stating that “There was definitely room to play, but keep it as authentic as possible in the realm of fantasy… It’s part of the show because it’s part of the comic”concluded the director devil.