Marvel Studio’s Disney+ sequence Moon Knight not too long ago completed up its first season, and though the season targeted primarily on only one villain — Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow — the crew behind the sequence had many extra concepts for different villains to look.
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Jeremy Slater, an government producer and the pinnacle author of Moon Knight, mentioned that the crew 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 mean Bushman was in my first couple versions of the script for sure, and we tried to have several different versions of him,” Slater informed The Direct. “Ultimately, I was the one to make the decision to ax Bushman. I went to Marvel and said I’m not comfortable with this, can we take him out and talk about different versions, and they were always really supportive.”
Slater additionally spoke a couple of handful of different villains that had been probably thought of for the sequence, together with some lesser-known Marvel villains like Stained Glass Scarlet and Zodiac. Instead, Slater mentioned, he ended up taking numerous traits from a ton of villains and utilizing that to provide you with an authentic character for the present.
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“We really looked at all of the sort of classic villains. There was a couple that we talked about; Stained Glass Scarlet, and you know, Zodiac, and different characters like that. No one really kind of fit the parameters of the story we were telling, so we were just like, ‘You know what, can we just introduce a guy, and we’ll grab a name from some’—you know, they gave me a list of [like] every villain whose ever appeared in a Moon Knight comic. I just went through and went like, ‘Arthur Harrow, that sounds like a cool villain name, let’s go with that.’”
