Moon Knight season 2 encourages us to embrace the chaos. Now, people who love the show are requesting for Marvel to follow suit. Since, as of at the moment, Disney has only commissioned Moon Knight as a limited series, meaning it’s a one-and-done-deal.
However, could this be changed? Moon Knight has been submitted to the class of Limited Series at the Emmys as Hawkeye was. However, interestingly enough the official tweet that outlined the promo for Season 1’s finale accidentally included the word “series finale” before replacing it with “season finale”.
“I honestly have no idea,” Moon Knight series creator Jeremy Slater told The Playlist when asked if the show will be returning. “I haven’t had any conversations with Marvel. I think a lot of those decisions are ultimately going to be in the hands of Kevin Feige because he’s the guy with the master plan.”
One possible drawback is that in-demand Oscar Isaac is the star and isn’t bound to an MCU-style deal as per Slater.
“Oscar has the ability to do as much or as little Moon Knightas he wants to. I think he had a great time playing the character, and I think he really enjoyed the process and is happy he did it. But I also think he’s not a guy who’s going to rush in and just sort of churn out a sequel just because the first one was popular.”
However, the writer sees potential. According to Slater the character’s complexity can easily lead to a second season, and even beyond.
“Everything is in service of the greater good. But is he going to be a friend? Is he an enemy? I think all those are really exciting questions for whoever takes up the reins. Whoever gets to tell the next Moon Knight story, whether that’s me or someone else, that is an exciting promise,” Slater declared (via Inverse). “This guy’s story is definitely not done.”
Then, after the initial two episodes air through Disney+, writer Mohamed Diab said to collider the following “Moon Knight is staying, staying for a long time.” But he’s still not certain if that means we’ll be receiving a new season or if it’s possible that the Fist of Khonshu will simply appear in the MCU instead.
When speaking to SFX Magazine, Diab expanded on his opinion of the character’s be returning into the MCU.
“If you ask me, I would tell you that Moon Knight is here to stay,” Diab stated. “He’s an intriguing character. If you’re Marvel and you are a Marvel fan, I believe the best business choice is to keep Moon Knight. But the only thing is that Marvel isn’t a traditional show. If you’re successful but it doesn’t mean that you’ll get Season 2. In addition I’m in the in the dark. I don’t know. I’m thinking like an executive at the moment. However, I think that they’ll stay.
“Maybe it’s going to be a film. Maybe it’s going to be a journey like what happened with Wanda Vision. I wish one day, if there is an expansion, I would be a part of it. We ended in a way that feels like a beginning. You see Mark and Steven becoming a new dynamic, the two of them in one body. We see Jake. You see the Scarlet Scarab, who could be a superhero or not. Very interesting stuff.”
Moon Knight season 2 release date: When will it return on Disney+?
If Moon Knight is indeed not just a phase, then a second season will likely take at least a couple of years to appear. That’s because Marvel is juggling more projects than Marc has personalities, so that means Moon Knight will have to get in line behind all of the other new and returning shows scheduled to arrive on Disney+.
Moon Knight season 2 cast: Who will be in it?
Before Moon Knight made his Marvel debut, Oscar Isaac told Variety that he was “reticent” about joining the MCU. “I had heard of the golden handcuffs,” he joked. “Luckily, we all agreed that this [show] is what we’re going to focus on. This is the story. And if there’s any kind of future, I think it just depends on if people like it, if people want to see more, and if we find a story that’s worth telling.
“I was in a position – because I wasn’t actively looking to get back into something this big – to say, ‘This is how I see it, and if you guys don’t see it that way, that’s totally okay, but then maybe it’s not the right fit,'” he said. “And so I wasn’t afraid that I was going to do the wrong thing.
“I felt like there was an opportunity to do something super unusual, on a massive stage, with these incredible resources,” Isaac told Deadline. “To find a way to do this strange character study and have this weird, psychedelic journey that’s ultimately about trauma, and to do that within this genre and this framework just seemed like too good of an opportunity to pass up.
“You kind of pour your heart into the things that you do just for the sake of doing it – not even for the result. You put that stuff in there out of a sense of play, and a sense of fun and excitement because it means something to you, and whether that shows up literally on camera is kind of beside the point,” Isaac explained.
“I think the idea is that it infuses depth. You just feel the depth of it. All the detail, all the texture, all of that stuff, someone in a rush — which you definitely were always in — you could kind of let that stuff fall to the side, especially when you have six hours of show to make, which is always just so wild. And to still find the space and the interest to infuse everything you could with some sort of meaning, it’s just so great.”
And since then, Isaac addressed the possibility of season two head on with The Radio Times, explaining: “I think we approached it as ‘this is the story’, and let’s just put everything out on the table on this story. There’s definitely no official plans to continue it. I think it would depend on what the story is.”
Not all hope is lost though, as Isaac went on to say: “That being said, I love being Steven. I just love it. It’s just like, physically, it’s so much fun to be him. So, you know, if there was a story that really made sense, I’d be happy to be part of it.”
So if Oscar does return, he will likely be joined by May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly, F Murray Abraham as Khonshu, and maybe Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, though it’s unlikely given how the last episode played out.
One cast member who sadly won’t be returning is Gaspard Ulliel following a tragic skiing accident that occurred prior to the show’s premiere in 2022. It currently remains unclear whether Marvel had plans to bring his character, Anton Mogart, in again for future episodes.
