Mohamed Diab, the director of the Marvel miniseries Moon Knightspoke at length in a recent interview about his disappointment with the level of representation of Egypt in Western cinema and has criticized Wonder Woman 1984. Diab spoke to SFX Magazine about how he hopes Moon Knight will help change Hollywood’s perception of Egypt.
“I remember seeing Wonder Woman 1984 and there was a great sequence in Egypt and it was a shame for us, “Diab said.” There was a sheikh … it doesn’t make any sense. Egypt looked like a country of the Middle Ages. It looked like the desert “.
Diab, who we remember made his directorial debut with the 2010 political thriller Cairo 678, adds: “You never see the Cairo. You always see Jordan passed off as Cairo, Morocco passed off as Cairo, sometimes Spain passed off as Cairo. This really makes us angry. ”
In Moon Knight, Diab has many opportunities to better represent Egyptian culture. The series takes viewers into the world of Marc Spector, a man who lives with a dissociative identity disorder and who suddenly finds himself with the powers of Khonshu, an Egyptian god. In comics, the ancient Egyptian tradition plays a fundamental role.
The Disney + Moon Knight series, divided into six episodes, will debut on March 30 and will run until May 4. You can see the latest trailer here.
