Moon Knight was going to do 2 crossovers with the Marvel Universe, but the studio ended up scrapping the idea and preferred not to make it a reality.
Director of moon knight, Muhammad Diabrecently spoke with TheWrap and revealed a very curious detail. Apparently, the series Disney+ starring oscar isaac scrapped two crossovers with him Marvel Cinematic Universe. The idea was on the table, but was discarded.
Although he admitted that Marvel Studios gave them the freedom to do so at any time, the director of moon knight has revealed that the first and last scenes of the series included crossovers. That means that two MCU characters were going to appear in the story of Marc Specter. Unfortunately, everything changed as the plot unfolded.
“We had the creative freedom to place these crosses at any time,” explained the person in charge of moon knight about the potential intertextuality with the marvel universe. «In the first and the last scene of the series we were going to have two crossovers. However, as we developed the story and changed the scripts, we came to the conclusion that they were not necessary. We all make the decision. I mean, it was a collective decision.”
History was above intertextuality
On the other hand, the executive producer of moon knight, Grant Curtis, confirmed in another interview that what was explained by his partner was true. He talked about these discarded crossovers within Marvel Studios and also added some links, such as the mention of madripoor in the third episode.
“There are little threads of intertextuality with the Marvel Universe,” said the producer of moon knight. «There is the mention of Madripoor, but also other related winks. We’re not consciously moving away from the MCU, anyway. We wonder what was the best story for these characters? The more we focused on all of them and made that journey as rich as possible for the audience, the connectivity just didn’t flow as smoothly as the narrative we were telling. So we had to scrap it.”