Marvel Executive Talks ‘Moon Knight’ and “Stories Left to Tell”
What was one of the best stories of the MCU’s work on the Disney+ streaming network, a Marvel executive talks about the open-mindedness of Moon Knight, and its “stories left to tell.”
There have been few Marvel projects that confronted a challenge as great and as nuanced as their latest Disney+ project.
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Moon Knight was a series that confronted themes and subject matter that is among the most mature and important than anything that the Marvel Cinematic Universe had attempted in the past.
With Oscar Isaac putting together what is the performance of a lifetime, the series told the story of Marc Spector and his struggles with dissociative identity disorder; as well as the childhood trauma that formed this coping mechanism.
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The story was one that required immense care, as the characters needed the empathetic hand of the creative team when balancing the delicacy of the topics at the heart of the series, while also presenting a story that feels at home in a world of superheroes and villains.
One thing that has become a very large part about, not just their newest series, but all of the MCU’s projects on Disney+ has been the willingness to leave them open-ended; with the lack of a definitive conclusion become a piece of the studio’s long-form storytelling process.
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In a recent interview, one major Marvel executive talked about Moon Knight and the “stories left to tell,” as being the driving motivator in the open-ended nature of these various projects.
As reported by The Direct, Marvel’s head of streaming, television, and animation, Brad Winderbaum, stated, “There are new challenges and new rewards that come with making longer-form stories, Were keeping the endings more open now, I think. We don’t have to tie up every loose end.”
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WInderbaum concluded, noting, “And when you create characters as strong as Moon Knight and Scarlet Scarab, we can confidently go into the future knowing that there are more stories left to tell and new characters that we can bring in to tell them.”
It will be very interesting to observe the future of Moon Knight, and even more interesting to see how this lack of definitive conclusions plays out for future projects within the MCU.
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