Ethan Hawke reportedly joins cast of Marvel s Moon Knight series
Ethan Hawke may play Moon Knight s archnemesis on the Disney Plus show. He joins Oscar Isaac and May Calamawy. Listen - 01:19
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Actor Ethan Hawke most known for his work in indie and horror movies like Sinister, The Purge, Daybreakers and Before Sunrise has finally joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to reports. Hawke has closed a deal to join Oscar Isaac in Marvel s Moon Knight series for Disney Plus, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline on Friday.
Episode Count & Length For MCU Shows Including Loki, She-Hulk Revealed
Episode Count & Length For MCU Shows Including Loki, She-Hulk Revealed
In a recent interview with Collider, when asked about the estimated runtimes for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ shows, Marvel CCO Kevin Feige confirmed that each series will feature different episode counts and lengths. Feige revealed that highly-anticipated MCU shows
Loki,
Moon Knight are developed as six-episode seasons with 40-50 minutes of runtime per episode. While
She-Hulk is being described as a legal comedy expected to consists of ten 30-minute long episodes.
“Well, we’re looking a little differently. We’re looking at it as developing them as either six hour-episodes, or nine or 10 half-hour episodes,” Feige explained.
I still can’t quite wake up from this dream I’m having, that we’re directing Oscar Isaac in a Marvel show. It’s really happening.
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The
Moon Knight series is being written and developed by
The Umbrella Academy‘s Jeremy Slater with all episodes set to be directed by Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab. Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac was previously in talks for the titular role, with a cinematographer for the series confirming earlier this month that the
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While its various Marvel film projects continue to sit around, doing not a whole hell of a lot due to their current COVID-19-dictated limbo, Disney’s TV superhero offerings continue to show a marked dedication to getting ambitiously weird. We’ve already got the twisty, sitcom-y
on our plates, and now
THR reports that the company has tapped indie directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead to direct at least a few episodes of Oscar Isaac’s upcoming
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If you’re familiar with Benson and Moorehead’s work, it’s likely for films like 2020 s time travel/drug flick
Paramount has acquired the rights to Monty Python’s
Spamalot. According to Deadline, the studio is set to make a movie production of the popular musical, which is already is fully developed with a screenplay by Pythoner Eric Idle and songs by Idle and John DuPrez.
Spamalot was initially in production at Fox; once Disney bought the company, however, the film lost momentum. The movie will be directed by Casey Nicholaw, who was the choreographer on the Broadway production.
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The movie and the musical are based on the 1975 cult classic,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the comedic troupe’s take on the legend of King Arthur. The film includes iconic scenes such as the Black Knight, Killer Rabbit, Not Dead Fred, and Knights of Ni.