Moon Knight featured no significant connections to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, leaving fans to wonder where the Disney+ series - and the character - fit into this world.
We can't help but think that Marc Spector will be a major player moving forward, but Head Writer Jeremy Slater tells The Direct that there were originally big plans to bring key characters from Eternals into Moon Knight. "I tried very hard to get the Eternals into the show, just because I’m buddies with Kumail Nanjiani," he revealed. "I want[ed] some Kingo."
"At one point, there was a flashback on the page that sort of showed one of Khonshu’s Avatars back in ancient Egypt, sort of dealing with Ammit being locked away, and Alexander the Great, and all of that stuff," he continued. "You sort of saw this Avatar team-up with the Eternals. It was a really fun scene, but again, it was so massively expensive to recreate Ancient Egypt, to sort of bring in 3 or 4 of the Eternals to have this big action sequence."
Slater went on to explain that it would have been a cold open to one of Moon Knight's episodes, but acknowledged that the expense of a scene like that would have hurt the show as a whole.
"That was the cameo I had to cut. It hurt, but it was also the right thing to do for the show, and I think everyone sort of collectively agreed," the writer noted. "There’s plenty of time in the future to team this guy up with other characters in the MCU and start building these connections; let's not force something just because the other shows have all had it."
Moon Knight was the perfect opportunity to showcase the Eternals given their role in the MCU's history, but it's easy enough to see why it didn't pan out. Fans were also surprised that there was no reference to Rama-Tut, a Kang the Conqueror Variant who once ruled over Egypt with an iron fist.
However, with production on so many of these Phase 4 movies and TV shows overlapping, it could be that there simply wasn't time to coordinate those type of references. It could always happen down the line, of course.
Do you wish the Eternals had appeared in Moon Knight?