Jeremy Slater, the creator and head writer for Marvel Studios' Moon Knight series, revealed new details about the creation of the hit series. In his interview, Slater mentions how he dealt with the Egyptian Gods in light of the upcoming film Thor: Love and Thunder.
Slater's Moon Knight was the sixth Marvel Studios series to begin streaming on Disney Plus under the MCU umbrella. Moon Knight was preceded by WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If...?, and Hawkeye. Mohamed Diab led the Moon Knight directing team, which also consisted of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson. Additional members of the cast include May Calamawy and Ethan Hawke.
A massive piece of Moon Knight is Marc Spector and Steven Grant's relationship with Khonshu, the Egyptian God of the moon. Throughout Moon Knight, there are sparring appearances from other Egyptian Gods, including Taweret and Ammit. Moon Knight isn't the only Marvel Studios project to deal with Gods. In his interview with The Playlist, Slater discussed how he crafted these characters and collaborated with Thor: Love and Thunder, whose main villain's purpose is to kill all the Gods. "Marvel was great about giving us our own little corner and our own little space and saying, 'Ok, the Egyptian Gods can be their own thing,' especially since we're only seeing, I think, three of them on screen over the course of this story," Slater said. "But we did speak extensively with the producers of Thor: Love and Thunder just to find out what they were doing with Gods in their story to make sure that we weren't going to be contradicting anything."
Slater mentions that Moon Knight's crew had some tough decisions to make, as the release dates amongst Marvel Studios projects were being shuffled around. At the time, Slater wasn't sure if Moon Knight would precede or follow Thor: Love and Thunder and decided it would be safest to put some distance between the existence of each project's Gods. While Moon Knight didn't plan around Thor: Love and Thunder, Slater doesn't rule out the chance that the Norse, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian Gods may cross paths in future Marvel Studios projects. "Marvel is constantly expanding the boundaries of the MCU, and it's getting bigger, and it's weirder, and it's giving us a lot more runway to tell cool stories in the future," Slater said.
Amidst Moon Knight and Thor: Love and Thunder's portrayal of the Gods comes Chloé Zhao's Eternals, which consists of a band of Celestials. A recent trailer for Thor:Love and Thunderseems to have included an Eternals tie-in, meaning these characters may also be on Gorr the God Butcher's hit list. Slater also discussed some of Moon Knight's less Godly characters, including Hawke's Arthur Sparrow, and whether he may return. Slater teased that because the audience doesn't see a body and that everyone was so fond of Hawke, Slater thinks Marvel Studios is "keeping a few cards in their deck just in case the circumstances are ever right."
In his interview, Slater talked about the relief Isaac's casting brought to many involved with Moon Knight, praising the ideas and duality he brought to the role. On Moon Knight's future, Slater said that "Oscar has the ability to do as much or as little Moon Knight as he wants to." He went on to say that Isaac doesn't strike him as someone to run in and "churn out a sequel just because the first one was popular." Hopefully, an answer on if and how Moon Knight's story will continue in the MCU's future will be available soon.
Moon Knight is now streaming on Disney Plus.
Source: The Playlist