Marvel Drops Moon Knight Trailer & Announces March 30 Release

by Rebecca Kaplan · Published January 17, 2022 · Updated January 17, 2022

We howled loud enough, Marvel Blog True Believers!

Marvel Studios just dropped a brand new Moon Knight trailer on the full moon, alongside an announcement that the highly anticipated series will premiere on Disney+ on March 30th, 2022. The new trailer and release date debuted during the NFL Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams Wild Card matchup on ESPN and ABC on Monday, January 17th, 2022.

Moon Knight Trailer Debuts

Marvel Studio’s dropped one of the most anticipated trailers of the year (at least if you’re an MCU fan), Moon Knight, coming soon to Disney+. A Tweet posted to Marvel’s official Twitter account said, “Welcome to chaos Watch the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ @MoonKnight and start streaming the Original series March 30 on @DisneyPlus.”

https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1483272963419824130?s=20

Who Is Moon Knight?

The new brand-new Moon Knight trailer gives fans an extended look at Oscar Isaac in the leading the role, who is described in the official description as “complex vigilante who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The multiple identities who live inside him find themselves thrust into a deadly war of the gods against the backdrop of modern and ancient Egypt.”

Isaac is playing Marc Spector, who is better known as the vigilante Moon Knight. In the comics, he has multiple identities including the millionaire Steven Grant, who is a financier and film producer (by day) in Hollywood to support the vigilante activities of the Moon Knight (by night).

Photo: Marvel Comics

The imagery in the new trailer heavily calls to mind the 2016 Marvel Comic’s Moon Knight run by Jeff Lemire, Wilfredo Torres, Francesco Francavilla, James Stokoe, and Cory Petit. And at Marvel Blog, we wouldn’t be surprised if the Disney+ series is heavily inspired by this series.

Moon Knight #6. Photo: Marvel Comics

The 2016 run deals with how each of Spector’s identities were used as a shield to protect those who travel by night, but in the trailers there is still one identity yet to be named: Jake Lockley, the cabbie who keeps his ear to the ground.