LUNAR LANDING
That was part of my pitch – showing Egypt the way it is, and how beautiful it really is
FROM BILLIONAIRE PLAYBOYS TO bespectacled journos, high school geeks to blind lawyers, secret identities are at the heart of superhero mythology. Now imagine a hero whose true identity is truly secret – even to himself. Or should that be himselves? Summon an analyst, this might get complicated.
“It’s a fresh take on a fresh character,” says Mohamed Diab, lead director on Moon Knight, the series that brings Marvel’s psychologically-fractured avenger to the screen. “I come from a background of very intimate films. I wouldn’t connect with this character if there wasn’t anything new, and I felt the idea of a superhero who has DID – dissociative identity disorder – was super-interesting.
“Jeremy Slater, our head writer, decided to show the story through the eyes of a normal person who realises that he’s a different character, which is a superhero. Wow. Such a take. I love that take.”
Never quite ascending to the upper tier of iconhood, where your noble face is plastered on beach towels and lunch boxes, has remained a cult fave since his comic book debut in 1975. Such stealth status suits a hero who operates in the shadows – and, as Diab admits,
