MOON KNIGHT Writer Reveals Marvel Studios' Take On The Hero Left Him Saying, "Oh Sh*t, I Want To Watch That"

MOON KNIGHT Writer Reveals Marvel Studios' Take On The Hero Left Him Saying, "Oh Sh*t, I Want To Watch That"

One of the writers of the Marvel Studios Moon Knight TV series coming to Disney+ has weighed in on what it's been like working on the show, and praises showrunner Jeremy Slater and Marvel boss Kevin Feige!

By JoshWilding - Mar 09, 2020 01:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Moon Knight
Source: ComicBook.com
Production kicks off on Moon Knight later this year, and Marvel Studios is currently busy putting together a team of writers. One of the most recent additions was The Witcher's Beau DeMayo, and while he made it clear that he can't say much about the secretive project, it sounds like the Disney+ TV series definitely has the right creative team working on it. 

"He has a rich legacy that's for sure," DeMayo teased. "All I can really say is, one, Jeremy Slater is a frigging badass. He's so smart. He is a great, awesome guy to work for. And then, I know it sounds like pandering but it is so true that, as a fan coming into Marvel, it is so amazing to see the...we've heard it before with Kevin and everybody's just...They do really care."

Slater has been tasked with serving as Moon Knight's showrunner, while Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will oversee the project and serve as an executive producer. According to DeMayo, that's led a positive vibe in the writers room which should help this series shine in a big way.

"It is amazing to sit in a place where you can tell that everybody is a fan and everybody wants to deliver the best quality, the best product," he adds. "And I think the vision that Kevin had and the vision Jeremy's had, I can't say what it is but I think people will really dig it. I know just as a fan, when they told me the take, I was just like, 'Oh shit, I want to watch that.'"

With a character like Moon Knight (who has split personalities), there are any number of directions Marvel could choose to take him in, and this series could draw off his classic adventures or some recent reimaginings. Either way, it definitely sounds like things are coming together nicely.

Now, we just need to find out who will be playing Moony...
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Kevwebsz
Kevwebsz - 3/9/2020, 1:59 AM
Scared this is gonna be a PG disappointment :/
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 3/9/2020, 2:19 AM
@Kevwebsz - I see people say stuff like this and I wonder if they actually read the comics. Moon Knight does not need to be rated R. The one big thing that people point to from his comic runs as R-material was (A) mostly silly and gratuitous, and (B) meant to demonstrate even to him that he had gone too far and was lost in a cycle of unending unsustainable violence.

Moon Knight is so much more than "Batman-that-kills". His background as a faithless mercenary converted to an enthusiastic zealot of an obscure god, his vacillation between dutiful adherence to Khonshu and crises of faith when faced with difficulty, his Fisher-Price® playset of a life where he gets to pretend to be three or four dudes and put together one of the most ridiculously Bronze Age supporting casts in comics, and then add to that genuine exploration of all of this discontinuity on the psyche of a guy who (when you set aside his deeds) is actually pretty unremarkable and damaged.

None of that story needs blood or tits or "[frick]s" to tell.
John456
John456 - 3/9/2020, 2:16 AM
I love Moon Knight but this show more likely won't be a true Moon Knight show, it's gonna be just family friendly and only lightly dark another typical MCU outing.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 3/9/2020, 2:53 AM
Cautiously optimistic on this one. Could be great. We'll see.

Kumkani
Kumkani - 3/9/2020, 3:24 AM
An R rating is not necessary to tell a dark or gritty story. It's only an enhancement.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 3/9/2020, 3:52 AM
@Necropolitan - fanboys tend to exaggerate a lot in these cases. I remember some people calling Joker "graphic" and "brutal" despite having like three or four relatively tame kills in the whole movie.
Moon Knight will do just fine within a PG13 camp, good writers and filmmakers know how to get around rating limitations.
AwesomePromoz
AwesomePromoz - 3/9/2020, 2:49 PM
@Spidey91 - I was disappointed in the lack of graphic violence in Joker, a supposedly r-rated thriller. I was disappointed in general at that film.
TH29
TH29 - 3/10/2020, 12:07 AM
@Spidey91 - All these weirdo "comic fans" swear every comic story has horror movie level of violence and curse words to be good, it's so strange when Marvel has proved time and time again they don't yet people think R Rating is necessary to tell a mature story when in fact, alot of times, it only does the opposite. Punisher War Zone was a hard R and it was pure garbage.
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