Want to know if there will be a second season of Moon Knight? So do the show’s executive producers
Mohamed Diab and Grant Curtis are just as in the dark as you are about the future of Marvel's new hero(es)
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[This article contains spoilers for the season finale of Moon Knight]
Want to know if there will be a second season of Moon Knight? Well, so do the show’s executive producers.
“We don’t know if there’s a next season,” Mohamed Diab, who also directed four of the six episodes, tells Deadline. “Marvel doesn’t go with a conventional way, so even if they like the character and want to extend the world, it could be season two, it could be a standalone film, or he can join another superhero’s journey. I’m kept in the dark, just like the fans.”
The Disney+ show introduced Oscar Isaac as the titular hero, who gets his superpowers from being the avatar of the Egyptian god Khonshu. He has dissociative identity disorder, and his Marc Spector and Steven Grant personas come to terms with each other over the course of the series.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Marvel Cinematic Universe entry without a hint at what’s next, and this week’s finale ended on the cliffhanger of showing us a hidden third personality, the cold-blooded killer Jake Lockley.
“Where Moon Knight lands in the MCU after this, I actually don’t know,” says executive producer Grant Curtis. “As a fan, I want to know, because Oscar created such an engaging, emotional performance that people want to see more of the Steven-Marc-Jake story.”
While Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige might be staying tight-lipped about the future of these new characters, there’s clearly plenty of potential.
Though an anticipated cameo from Gael García Bernal’s Werewolf By Night didn’t happen, the finale still introduces a new superhero. In the battle against cult leader Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), Marc’s wife Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy) enters the fray as the avatar of the hippo-headed goddess Taweret, armed with a pair of golden swords and a winged suit.
Despite Layla’s new look leading to some of the episode’s most powerful moments, Diab reinforces that she’s conflicted about her new capabilities. When it comes to being a superhero he says she “hates the idea right now,” but there’s a suggestion that she’ll “learn it’s important.”
Moon Knight also moved the comic book character’s home base from New York to London, where he remains at the end of the finale. In the post-credits scene of Eternals, Mahershala Ali’s Blade paid Dane Whitman (Kit Harington) a visit in the English capital. The comics have featured a team-up of supernaturally powered heroes known as the Midnight Sons, and it doesn’t seem like a coincidence that these characters could all bump into each other eventually.
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I’m not sure we needed a first season, let alone a second.Take THAT people who liked this tedious mess.
It had some good moments, but yea it was kind of a mess.
Here’s the soapbox I want to stand on right now: can we please stop with the “I pull a hood over my head and then suddenly blend in” trope? Layla simply joins the group of Harrow’s followers, even riding in the same truck with them multiple times. Do Harrow’s followers not know each other well enough to even recognize that there is someone new in the group? Do they not bother to get to know one another during nightly dinner and ritual sacrifices?
They have a trust problem, in that they are all part of a secret group where the test for loyalty literally murders you. So generally they don’t have a good reason to be suspicious of infiltrators (they’re secret!) and they don’t have to fear betrayal (the test woulda killed any betrayer).
I’ll buy it! Though they were literally hunting Layla like 30 minutes prior to her sneaking in, so I guess they don’t look at each other either?
i’m not sure if it was in this series or not, but i’d like to add the ‘people are fighting in the middle of the road, and when all hope seems to be lost, a random truck smashes into the bad guy and keeps driving’ trope to that list.truck drivers do have both brakes and visibility. and even if they did hit someone they wouldn’t presumably notice, and stop, and feel really bad about accidentally killing someone!
Honestly I found it to be fun. Its been the first MCU series since Wandavision that we watched as released, one a week and I never found it boring.
the series is successful. Moon Knight will rise again. take that, sir.
I’m not sure how you have the temerity to reply to me when I was very clear in my original post that I got you.
Gentlemen, gentlemen! I suggest you take this outside and settle it by slapping each other with a trout.
When the fuck did “need” become a word in criticism?
Oooo, you really got us. I certainly wish I was bored by the show rather than enjoying it.
Now this is the kind of incisive, detailed criticism I come to the commentariat for.
I’d like a movie, and I think Layla should pop up in other shows before Marc/Steve.
This needed way more Sienkiewicz style with a big heaping tablespoon of Lemire weirdness.
This needed way more Sienkiewicz style with a big heaping tablespoon of Lemire weirdness Well… at least the hospital was named the Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital.
They’re pretty clearly working towards Midnight Sons – Moon Knight, Blade, Werewolf by Night, even a more monster-friendly Dr. Strange. No season 2 of Moon Knight doesn’t mean no more Moon Knight.I will be shocked if something isn’t already filmed with Oscar Isaac probably as Jake Lockley popping up in Werewolf by Night.
I keep waiting for them to announce either/both Ghost Rider or Elsa Bloodstone properties to really round out the Sons without having to deal with Sony effing up Morbius real bad.
No spoilers, but I also have some reasons for thinking that the Dr Strange movie lays some options out for Midnight Sons too. Again, not looking to spoil anyone and it isn’t even a specific spoiler. More just…open doors.
Of all the Marvel shows I’ve watched, Moon Knight was definitely one of them.
However they bring Moon Knight back, I hope they fix the issues with his debut season. Its three stars were superb, but the story was made of enormous plot holes & awkward pacing. Not only did it get Egyptian mythology wrong, they didn’t bother making its magic appear internally consistent. I would’ve gladly sacrificed Moon Knight to get Legends of Tomorrow a proper conclusion.
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2022/05/04/moon-knight-is-disney-going-through-a-phase/
I feel like complaining that a comic book show got mythology wrong kinda misses the point of things. These are not suppose to be educating you about real Egyptian myths anymore then the Thor movies are teaching you Norse mythology.
If they’re not even going to do the basics right, why bother? Just make up brand new myths not tied to real ones instead of half-assing cultural appropriation.
Because they want the look of it. Pyramids and dog headed Gods look cool. And you can’t really call cultural appropriation on ancient civilizations.
The MCU explicitly doesn’t adapt mythology, there’s a running conceit that real-world mythology is a warped understanding of the “actual” comic characters who are generally ancient aliens or whatever.
They need to bring him back to street level stuff. Add Daredevil in it. But not before they put him in the Werewolf At Night special on Halloween.
Makes me wonder what deal Firaxis and Marvel made to make the Midnight Sons game that is coming out. It feels kinda weird that Firaxis would be like “We want to make a Marvel game based off a kinda obscure 90s comic team up book”. I wonder if they were like “We want to make a Marvel game” and Marvel said “Okay, make Midnight Sons, so we can kinda tie it into what we are doing”
I’d really love to see Moon Knight, Blade, the Black Knight, and Ghostrider team up to fight werewolves or whatever, and I don’t care if that makes me super basic, I think it would be fun.
I’d really love to see Moon Knight, Blade, the Black Knight, and Ghostrider team up So would I, but I want Brother Voodoo in there too (I don’t think he’s in the Midnight Sons in the comics but come on). Jericho Drumm’s late brother was name-checked in the first Dr Strange movie, so… the MCU knows he’s around anyway.I just love me some Brother Voodoo is all.
Hell yeah, throw him in. I want some ooky spooky Halloweeny fun
“and this week’s finale ended on the cliffhanger”In what world is a POST-CREDITS SEQUENCE -which RESOLVES both the question of the third personality and also KILLS THE VILLAIN, closing out the narrative- a fucking CLIFFHANGER?