Moon Knight premiered on Disney+ in 2022, and whereas most followers appeared to benefit from the sequence, it was often as messy as Marc Spector’s psyche. The present’s asylum-set scenes did not make a ton of sense (maybe that was the purpose), and Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow was removed from the very best huge unhealthy we have seen within the MCU.
Hawke’s work was stellar, although, as was Oscar Isaac’s. Moon Knight ended with the emergence of a 3rd persona, Jake Lockley, however the character hasn’t been seen since and is not at present anticipated to issue into Avengers: Doomsday.
Had Kang Variant Rama-Tut nonetheless been in play, he seemingly would have completed. Nonetheless, plans change, one thing Moon Knight Head Writer Jeremy Slater made clear in a current interview with ComicBook.com. It seems the Moon Knight he wrote was fairly a bit completely different to the one we watched three years in the past.
“In the end, [Marvel] went in a distinct course and the director put collectively his personal group of writers,” he defined. “You understand when you find yourself coming in to play in such an enormous sandbox that you’re…borrowing another person’s toys to play with for a brief period of time and, on the finish of the day, they don’t belong to you. You understand that stepping into, so it wasn’t a shock in any respect.”
“The objective was if Marc Spector was the Avatar of Khonshu, we have been going to take Bushman and make him the avatar of a distinct Egyptian god and allow them to duke it out,” the author mentioned of scrapped plans for one in all Moon Knight’s hottest foes.
He added, “The drawback we stored working into was Black Panther had simply come out and Michael B. Jordan was so rattling good as Killmonger in that film, that he casts such an enormous shadow…that the whole lot we wrote wound up feeling just a little by-product.”
Bushman was hinted at in Moon Knight, so the door is open to Marvel Studios doubtlessly revisiting the character down the road. Nonetheless, if and when that occurs, Slater has no intention of being concerned.
“If there’s one other Moon Knight, the ball is in Kevin Feige and Oscar Isaac’s court docket,” the author famous. “As soon as Kevin figures out the easiest way to make use of that character, what’s the proper story and who’re the appropriate storytellers to carry that to life, I’d be shocked if we didn’t see him once more in some unspecified time in the future.” He’d go on to say that, for now, he is extra targeted on directing and is not trying to make an MCU return.
Whereas lots of you’ll be disillusioned by Bushman’s absence, it appears like Slater could not work out a brand new strategy to the villain. That is seemingly a part of the rationale why a brand new group of writers was enlisted, a transfer which got here at a time when Marvel Studios was nonetheless attempting to take a movie-like strategy to creating its sequence.
Moon Knight is now streaming on Disney+ in its entirety.
