Moon Knight: new MCU superhero, played by Oscar Isaac, fights mental illness and ancient gods in Disney+ drama

Marvel’s fifth live action series stars Oscar Isaac as a museum worker possessed by the spirit of an ancient Egyptian god

He also has an alter ego, the US mercenary Marc Spector, and is dealing with an identity disorder

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Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight in a still from the Disney+ series Moon Knight. Photo: Marvel Studios

Published: 12:00am, 30 Mar 2022Updated: 4:02pm, 10 May 2022

The latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Moon Knight, is the first superhero in the franchise to be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID).

Oscar Isaac stars as the titular hero, a masked vigilante empowered by the spirit of an ancient Egyptian deity whose mild-mannered alter ego is wrestling with serious mental issues of his own.

Also starring Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy, Moon Knight is Marvel’s fifth live-action series, after Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki and Hawkeye, but the first to be headlined by a previously unseen character.

Steven Grant (Isaac) is an unassuming British museum employee who lives alone in London and works in the gift shop.

Steven, who has a deep fascination for ancient Egyptian history, suffers from blackouts and bouts of sleepwalking, waking up in strange locations and experiencing vivid hallucinations of an altogether more dangerous life.

During one of these episodes, Steven encounters the mysterious Arthur Harrow (Hawke), who wields incredible powers and predicts the coming of Ammit, an ancient god with the ability to foresee people’s future wrongdoings.

Struggling to maintain his grasp on reality, Steven learns that he is at the centre of a global threat, and only by relinquishing control of his body to his alter ego, American mercenary Marc Spector, is he able to stay alive.