The Punisher and Elektra may not be the only anti-heroes being added to the Netflix corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marc Spector, a.k.a. Moon Knight, may be showing up as well.
The news comes from Heroic Hollywood’s Umberto “El Mayimbe” Gonzales, who was a guest on the Collider Heroes video cast. Around the 10 minute mark in the video below, Gonzales and the hosts are discussing what Marvel’s recently announced 2020 mystery movies may be. Moon Knight is mentioned as a possibility, but Gonzales says he’s heard they’re preparing the character for the “back door pilot” treatment on Netflix, similar to the Punisher in the second season of Daredevil.
I don’t think Netflix has a good production team. I’ve seen the shows they made, but the momentum seemed flat. It’s not just one thing. It is just the general feeling from how the scenes progress. Like a musician with no rhythm.
You are in a minority. House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Daredevil, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidthave received enormous acclaim. A lot of their other, less wildly popular shows, are still quite watchable.
Moon Knight, of all superheroes? Bill Sienkewicz is the only one who really seemed to be able to light that one on fire. Admittedly, I haven’t paid attention in more than twenty years… but every other version I’ve ever seen just came across like a bargain basement Batman.
Not having read Sienkewicz, I had pretty much the same opinion on the character. But Warren Ellis did a run on Moon Knight in 2014 that was really, really good.
Whoa. Of all the Superheroes left in the Marvel universe- um, I guess that the only non-Spidey, non-Mutant related are pretty much just about Moon Knight or Cloak and Dagger, come to think about it, so not that surprising.
I hope they go for the Ultimate version. That one had a murderous Supervillain as one of his personalities.
Do they respond with “Not made by the folks making Marvel movies, so not at all relevant. Wanna talk about Howard the Duck too?”
Moon Knight is a hard character to do because he is essentially a cut-rate Batman with an awkward split-personality mechanic.
But with superstrength when you want to do a story with superstrength – and none when you want to do a story without superstrength. I’ve seen worse hooks.
I think Moon Knight would be an awesome character IF they play him as hopelessly schizophrenic and have the Egyptian god talking to him be totally his imagination. That would be awesome.
Assuming Fox has FF rights to Black Panther and The Inhumans, Namor is in legal limbo, and Netflix can’t do Blade, Punisher, Ghost Rider or other Marvel movies:
She-Hulk, Nova, Warlock, Ms. Marvel, Cap Marvel, Wonder Man, Hercules, Cap Britain, Alpha Flight, Thunderbolts, Wasp, Giant Man, Sentry, Black Knight, Quasar, Great Lakes Avengers, and more.
The Black Panther movie is due out from Marvel in 2017. The Inhumans movie the year after, but they’re already a major plot point in Agents of Shield. Punisher is going to be in Daredevil’s second season. Captain Marvel is due in 2019, having just been pushed back again. Wasp was in this year’s Ant-Man, in a flashback, and will share title billing in Ant-Man and Wasp in 2018. There’s also rumors of a Ms. Marvel TV series on ABC.
Also, the Nova Corps and Adam Warlock’s cocoon both made appearances in Guardians of the Galaxy, and technically, having Hank Pym in Ant-Man means that Giant Man was in it too, but it doesn’t appear that MCU Hank ever found the “reverse” switch on his Pym Particles.
Marvel’s already announced plans for movies of Black Panther and The Inhumans (and Black Panther’s apparently in Captain America: Civil War) and Punisher’s in season 2 of Daredevil. Marvel’s apparently still deciding what to do with Blade, so he could turn up on Netflix yet.
