“It was a disgrace,” Diab says of the film’s Cairo scenes.
“You had a sheik–that doesn’t make any sense to us.
Egypt looked like a country from the Middle Ages.
It looked like the desert.”
You always see Jordan shot for Cairo, Morocco shot for Cairo, sometimes Spain shot for Cairo.
This really angers us."
In Moon Knight, Diab has plenty of opportunities to do Egyptian culture better.
In the comic, Ancient Egyptian lore plays a substantial role.
The six-episode Disney+ series will premiere on March 30 and run through to May 4.
In the end Im glad we did that, because everyone says it kind of makes the show."
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