‘Moon Knight’ and the tribute to the late Gaspard Ulliel, his Midnight Man

‘Moon Knight’ and the tribute to the late Gaspard Ulliel, his Midnight Man

Marvel did not forget to remember the interpreter after his sudden death and his first appearance in the Disney + series.

Many met Gaspard Ulliel with ‘Hannibal: The Origin of Evil’ and applauded him as ‘Saint Laurent’. Between both roles, discovery and consecration, we can say that if the French actor and model stood out for something, it was because of his class. Ulliel passed away at the age of 37 on January 19 after a serious skiing accident.

Although the importance of Uilliel in the MCU cannot be compared to the void left by Chadwick Boseman, the truth is that the fans were waiting for his appearance in “Moon Knight”. As if Ethan Hawke and Oscar Isaac weren’t enough to drive the networks crazy every week, the other villain in this Marvel series is Anton Mogart, a character who will also become Midnight Man (or Midnight Man in Spanish). We had to wait until episode 3 to see how he and his henchmen fought with gunshots and bullets against the protagonists.

It was not until the end of this first episode in which Ulliel appears that the credits dedicated a screenshot of “In memory of Gaspard Ulliel. Will it be repeated in the following ones?

We still have a lot to see of the actor since he is also credited for the remaining three chapters. Of course, his future in the MCU, if it was going to be beyond these first episodes, it can no longer be. In the comics this character was created by writer Doug Moench and artist Bill Sienkiewicz, also appearing in the third issue of Moon Knight in 1981.

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In these it is about a fine thief who, facing Moon Knight, is horribly deformed, going from living a life of luxury as Anton Mogart to living in the sewers as Midnight Man. In order to search for possible solutions for the character’s destiny, we have to remember that in the comics Mogart dies of cancer, being his illegitimate son, Jeff Wilde, who takes the title of Midnight Man to continue his inherited revenge against Moon Knight. .

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