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Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow was not supposed to be the first villain Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector faced in Moon Knight. Jeremy Slater, who created the Disney+ series, recently revealed who was originally planned as the Season 1 villain and how Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger changed those plans.
Speaking with , Slater shared that Raoul Bushman, who worked as a deadly mercenary in Sudan with Spector before becoming Moon Knight’s archenemy, was originally planned to be the Moon Knight Season 1 antagonist. «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 revealed. «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.»
While he is still credited with writing the first episode of Moon Knight, Slater shared that Marvel Studios ultimately decided to go in «a different direction, and the director put together his own team of writers.» Despite the creative shuffle, Slater has no hard feelings regarding the process, explaining, «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.»
Moon Knight's MCU Future Remains Shrouded in Mystery
The first season of Moon Knight aired on Disney+ in 2022. Three years later, the only other appearance by the superhero in the MCU was in What If…? Season 3, where Isaac returned to voice a variant in the episode where the Avengers pilot gigantic robots to fight gamma monsters. While a second season of Moon Knight has been teased, as well as the superhero’s inclusion in a Midnight Sons movie, nothing has officially been announced at this time.
However, Slater remains open to coming back for Moon Knight Season 2, remarking, «If there is another Moon Knight, the ball is in Kevin Feige and Oscar Isaac’s court. Once Kevin figures out the best way to use that character, what is the right story and who are the right storytellers to bring that to life, I would be shocked if we didn’t see him again at some point.»
The MCU fandom was a bit surprised when Isaac’s name didn’t show up on a director’s chair in the viral Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement livestream. Instead, the hotly anticipated superhero crossover movie seems to be bringing back MCU alumni who have largely appeared on the big screen, with Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), and Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) among those confirmed to be returning. The main casts of Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps will also be appearing, as will half a dozen actors from 20th Century Fox’s original X-Men trilogy. Production on Doomsday began at the end of April and is expected to last for around six months, with Joe and Anthony Russo returning as directors.
Moon Knight is available to stream on Disney+.
