Marvel Wants More Moon Knight, It Just May Not Be Season 2

In the past few years, Marvel has made a lot of TV, realised that that TV wasn’t really quite TV, and then had a whole bit of an existential crisis about how and why that happened. While we’re about to see what’s come of a studio-wide realignment on what MCU television will look like in the form of Daredevil: Born Again‘s debut next week, we’re also slowly starting to see the ramifications of that on the heroes that lead the vanguard on that initial push towards streaming on the small screen.

It’s clear that Marvel’s initial approach to TV since the launch of Disney+ thus far has been less about the shows themselves being sustainable beyond an initial season, and more about prepping those characters for a “proper” debut down the line in another project, potentially on the big screen. WandaVision set the stage for Multiverse of Madness (although it’s eventually got follow ups in this post-realignment era with Agatha All Along and the upcoming Vision Quest), Ms. Marvel primed Kamala Khan for her launch into The Marvels, which then dovetailed into Hawkeye‘s set up of Kate Bishop, and the domino effect of getting to establish a roster of potential Young Avengers for somewhere down the line.

But now that–in a shocking reversal unless you were anyone but Marvel, it seems–the studio has learned that maybe the thing that people like about TV is that it’s multiple seasons of storytelling and not just a feature chopped into six parts, the studio is looking to pull back from the framing it had for its initial waves of small screen adventures, and it’s leaving at least some of those heroes in something of a limbo–including Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight.

“So I think Marvel Television has happened in waves, and I think Moon Knight happened in a wave of shows that were going to establish characters that would tie-in to the future,” Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum recently told Comicbook.com about the wayward plans for the hero. While Isaac and Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab had previously teased the potential for the character to return in a second season–the first concluded on the cliffhanger of introducing another of Marc’s split personalities from the comics, that has yet to be followed up on–beyond a brief appearance in the final season of What If the character has seemingly fell off Marvel’s radar for now.

Emphasis on the for now, though. While Winderbaum wouldn’t exactly be clear on just what Marvel’s plans may entail, there apparently are some for Moon Knight… just not in his own show.

“Moving forward our priorities have shifted. We’re making shows as shows that can exist as annual releases, more like television,” Winderbaum continued. “I would love to see a Moon Knight Season 2, but there are plans for Moon Knight down the road.”

This could mean a lot of things–Moon Knight could make future appearances in team-up movies, or his role might be reduced to something more like appearances like his What If turn. It could mean more television, even if it’s not a dedicated continuation of Moon Knight specifically. But for now, Khonshu’s champion is taking a few proverbial nights off.

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