The Moon Knight TV show featured Arthur Harrow (played by Ethan Hawke) as the primary villain for the series, but according to creator Jeremy Slater, that wasn’t always the case.
Who was supposed to be Moon Knight Season 1’s villain?
Speaking to , Slater noted that he originally wanted to use Bushman, one of Moon Knight’s most iconic villains, in the series, but that Marvel and director Mohamed Diab went in a slightly different direction.
“Ultimately, [Marvel] went in a different direction and the director put together his own team of writers,” said Slater. “You know when you are coming in to play in such a big sandbox that you are . . . borrowing someone else’s toys to play with for a short amount of time and, at the end of the day, they don’t belong to you. You know that going in, so it wasn’t a surprise at all.”
Slater went on to reveal just how Bushman would be utilized in the show. In this iteration, he would be the avatar of a different Egyptian god, and he and Moon Knight would clash in the series. The writer also points to Black Panther’s success and Michael B. Jordan’s now iconic role as Killmonger making that decision feel a bit derivative, forcing a change.
“The goal was if Marc Spector was the Avatar of Khonshu, we were going to take Bushman and make him the avatar of a different Egyptian god and let them duke it out,” Slater said. Ultimately, the writers did something similar with Harrow, making him a disciple of Ammit. Slater went on, “The problem we kept running into was Black Panther had just come out and Michael B. Jordan was so damn good as Killmonger in that movie, that he casts such a big shadow…that everything we wrote wound up feeling a little derivative.”
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Originally reported by Anthony Nash on SuperHeroHype.
