After playing Leto Atreides I in Denis Villeneuve's epic science fiction film Dune, Oscar Isaac is all set to don a superhero suit in Marvel Studios' upcoming miniseries, Moon Knight. The character of Moon Knight, which is known for his dissociative identity disorder, is actually the secret identity of Marc Spector. Spector is a former CIA operative turned mercenary, who dies during a job in Sudan but is revived and turned into the vessel of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. The six episodes series is a major connection with Egypt and is heavily influenced by it. The Marvel series incorporates elements of Ancient Egyptian mythology in telling the story of Spector. It was of utmost importance for writer/director Mohamed Diab that the series did right by Egyptian representation.

Four of six episodes are directed by him, who also conveniently happens to be of Egyptian descent. The Egyptian writer and director who is best known for his debut film Cairo 678 and Amira, has called out Wonder Woman 1984 over how Egypt has been portrayed in the 2020 sequel of the DCEU (Detective Comics Extended Universe) film starring Gal Gadot. He said that the enforces stereotypes about Egypt on us. The film was already accused of indulging in racist stereotypes by its audience way before Diab even called it out for misrepresenting his country. 

Recently while speaking to a magazine, the filmmaker said, “In my pitch, there was a big part about Egypt, and how inauthentically it has been portrayed throughout Hollywood’s history. It’s always exotic – we call it orientalism. It dehumanizes us. We are always naked, we are always sexy, we are always bad, we are always over the top.” He added, “You never see Cairo. You always see Jordan shot for Cairo, Morocco shot for Cairo, sometimes Spain shot for Cairo. This really angers us. I remember seeing ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ and there was a big sequence in Egypt and it was a disgrace for us. You had a sheik – that doesn’t make any sense to us. Egypt looked like a country from the Middle Ages. It looked like the desert.” According to Variety, the filmmaker stated that the relationship between Moon Knight and Egypt is a “part of the show because it’s part of the comic book. It’s part of how he gets his powers. It’s ingrained in it.”

The upcoming series has been created and written by Jeremy Slater, with Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead sitting on the director's chair. It is produced by Oscar Isaac, Jeremy Slater, Mohamed Diab, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and Brad Winderbaum. The Marvel miniseries is all set to release on Disney+Hotstar on March 30.