Moon Knight: Ethan Hawke cast as the main villain of the Marvel Disney Plus series

Moon Knight: Ethan Hawke cast as the main villain of the Marvel Disney Plus series

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Ethan Hawke is the latest Hollywood star to arrive at the MCU. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hawke was cast as the main villain of the Moon Knight series at Disney + .THR does not indicate which character Hawke is playing, he only describes the role as “the main villain” of the series. Hawke will star opposite Oscar Isaac, who was cast as the supernatural watchman. Production on the series is scheduled to begin in Budapest in March 2021.Moon Knight does not have the largest rogues gallery in the Marvel Universe, which can help to decrease the number of candidates. Given the character’s ethnicity in the comics, we can probably assume that Hawke is not playing Moon Knight’s frequent enemy, Raoul Bushman. Moon Knight’s rogues gallery also includes villains like Killer Shrike, Black Specter and the Sun King, any of which could make sense for the series. However, it is equally likely that Hawke does not play a traditional supervillain. He could be the leader of the Committee (the criminal cartel that hires Moon Knight in his first appearance) or even the physical manifestation of moon god Khonshu. Hawke’s cast is certainly unexpected, given the actor’s tendency to shun conventional Hollywood franchises and his previous comments criticizing the genre of superhero films.

“Now we have the problem that they tell us that Logan is a great movie,” said Hawke in 2018. “Well, it’s a great superhero movie. It still involves people wearing metal tights coming out of their hands. It’s not Bresson. It’s not Bergman. But they talk about it as it is. “

Hopefully, Hawke’s decision to sign with the MCU is a good sign for Moon Knight fans. Marvel announced the Moon Knight series at D23 in August 2019. Kevin Feige once indicated that Moon Knight and some of Marvel’s other Disney + series, such as She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, would end production in late 2020. Ultimately, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) delayed that schedule and many of the original production dates were postponed.

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WandaVision, however, will be released on Disney + on January 15, as the first entry into a new and ambitious lineup of TV series designed to be more closely integrated with Marvel films. For more information on the studio’s future list of projects and releases, read our review of the biggest and most notable developments at MCU, Disney + and Marvel comics this year.

Hawke’s casting is the latest big MCU news released in recent days. We also found out that Chris Evans may be in talks to return as Steve Rogers, while a leaked action figure may have revealed a major spoiler for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

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