A cool little detail has recently been discovered regarding one of the costumes that Oscar Isaac wore in the Marvel Studios series Moon Knight.
While I didn’t care for how the story in that series played out, I do love and appreciate the attention, care, fandom, and detail that the production and design team put into their work.
There’s no way anyone would have noticed this detail had it not been pointed out. It’s an Easter egg that has to be deciphered as it contains a multitude of references to certain dates. It only appears on screen for a second.
During an interview with CinemaBlend, Moon Knight costume designer Meghan Kasperlik explains: “On the collar, like on the reverse of the collar… Oscar’s Guatemalan.”
He continued: “I took the Mayans, and I found basically the symbols – almost like Zodiac symbols – of Oscar’s birthday, his brother’s birthday, the first issue of Moon Knight, the first time we see Jake Lockley, the first time we see Mr. Knight, and Moon Knight in this.”
Kasperlik added, “I took all of those months of those zodiac symbols, and I incorporated it into a pattern, and then 3D printed that on the back of the collar. You only see it for, literally, a second. But Oscar knew it was there.”
It’s stuff like that I appreciate about these projects. Even if the movies or shows drop the ball with the story or characters, we know that the production teams and artists do this kind of stuff that some audiences may never notice and see.
While Oscar Isaac would love to see Moon Knight return for a Midnight Suns project, we have no idea what Marvel’s plans are for the character.