Marvel Studio’s Disney+ sequence Moon Knight just lately completed up its first season, and though the season targeted primarily on only one villain — Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow — the staff behind the sequence had many extra concepts for different villains to seem.
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Jeremy Slater, an government producer and the top author of Moon Knight, mentioned that the staff thought of many different villains for the sequence, together with Bushman, a personality that has appeared in numerous Moon Knight comics as a longstanding villain to Moon Knight.
“I imply Bushman was in my first couple variations of the script for certain, and we tried to have a number of completely different variations of him,” Slater advised The Direct. “In the end, I used to be the one to make the choice to ax Bushman. I went to Marvel and mentioned I’m not comfy with this, can we take him out and speak about completely different variations, they usually have been all the time actually supportive.”
Slater additionally spoke a couple of handful of different villains that have been doubtlessly thought of for the sequence, together with some lesser-known Marvel villains like Stained Glass Scarlet and Zodiac. As an alternative, Slater mentioned, he ended up taking numerous traits from a ton of villains and utilizing that to give you an authentic character for the present.
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“We actually checked out the entire kind of basic villains. There was a pair that we talked about; Stained Glass Scarlet, and you recognize, Zodiac, and completely different characters like that. Nobody actually sort of match the parameters of the story we have been telling, so we have been similar to, ‘You understand what, can we simply introduce a man, and we’ll seize a reputation from some’—you recognize, they gave me an inventory of [like] each villain whose ever appeared in a Moon Knight comedian. I simply went by means of and went like, ‘Arthur Harrow, that seems like a cool villain identify, let’s go along with that.’”
