The series follows Steven Grant, a mild- mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc's enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
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In young Marc's childhood bedroom during episode five, there's a poster for Star Wars: A New Hope on the wall. It's a nod both to Marc's room in the original comics and a cheeky wink at Oscar Isaac himself, who of course played Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
That old 'Tomb Buster' movie poster in Marc's bedroom has a name on it, Doug Perlin, which is a mash-up tribute to Doug Moench and Don Perlin, the two guys who actually created Moon Knight for the comics. It even name-drops 'Timely Atlas Studios', a wink at the old publishing names that eventually became Marvel.
Stick around for the finale's post-credits scene and there's a final QR code that unlocks Moon Knight Annual #1, a comic where he actually squares off against Kang the Conqueror, a character MCU fans had just met via a variant in Loki not long before.
In that same post-credits scene, Jake Lockley wheels Arthur Harrow out of a building called Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital. That's a direct tip of the hat to Bill Sienkiewicz, the artist who helped shape Moon Knight's whole look and tone back in the comics.
Part of the production headed out to the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan for filming, which happens to be the exact same stretch of desert Oscar Isaac had already shot scenes in for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Rather than shoot on location in south London, the crew found a market street in Budapest and remodelled it, swapping out signage and finding a curved road to mimic Brixton, while a nearby restaurant got dressed up to pass for Soho.
Steven Grant's wobbly British accent wasn't written into the scripts at all — head writer Jeremy Slater says the original difference between Steven and Marc was purely down to attitude, until Oscar Isaac pitched giving Steven a distinct voice himself.
Getting Mr. Knight's sharp white suit just right wasn't a one-and-done job — costume designer Meghan Kasperlik and her team ended up tailoring close to four dozen of them over the course of the shoot.
Casting F. Murray Abraham as the voice of Khonshu wasn't a cold call — Oscar Isaac reached out to him personally, since the two had already worked together on the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis nearly a decade earlier.
Khonshu might sound like F. Murray Abraham, but the physical performance you're watching on set was actually captured by Egyptian-American actor Karim El-Hakim, with Abraham's voice layered on afterwards to give the god his commanding tone.
