‘Moon Knight’ Director Mohamed Diab Unsure Season 2 Will Happen & Says MCU Crossover Scenes Were Nixed

Yesterday, the finale of Marvel‘s limited series “Moon Knight” dropped on Disney+, and with the show over it’s unknown when we’ll see the character pop up again. The studio hasn’t announced a season two as they previously did with “Loki” after that show completed it’s run last year. One reason might be that Marvel recruited “Moon Knight” directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead for “Loki” season two after director Kate Herron wasn’t expected to come back. There’s also the chance that Marc Spector/Steven Grant simply won’t get another round of episodes.

Director and executive producer Mohamed Diab has revealed to Deadline that he’s unaware of the status of any future projects for “Moon Knight” as he’s “kept in the dark,” but muses that the superhero could hypothetically return on the small screen, in a solo feature film, or simply as a supporting character elsewhere in the MCU depending on what Marvel wants for Moon Knight.

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“We don’t know if there’s a next season,” Diab told Deadline in a post-finale interview. “Marvel doesn’t go with a conventional way, so even if they like the character and want to extend the world, it could be season 2, it could be a standalone film, or he can join another superhero’s journey,”

“I’m kept in the dark, just like the fans.” Diab continued, “We never discussed it being a season 2, but one day there’s going to be an expansion, but I don’t know how it’s going to look like.”

Diab also definitively told Variety he’s game to direct for Marvel in the future, and compared “Moon Knight” to an Egyptian version of “Black Panther” in terms of how the country has embraced it.

“I would pay to do that. Definitely.”

“It’s very important. ‘Moon Knight’ is becoming a national pride in Egypt. People treat it like the Egyptian ‘Black Panther.’ They love that behind the camera, there are Egyptians; in front of the camera, there are Egyptians. There’s Egyptian music that the world is enjoying. They believe in themselves. They believe they can do anything right now. I’m so proud of that.”

Many fans will notice that “Moon Knight” avoided a lot of forced cameos and crossover stuff that the MCU is best known for, but as Diab sees it they didn’t really need that in the show, despite almost including two crossover scenes that seemingly were cut as the scripts changed and they decided against it.

“We had the freedom to place it whenever. I want to tell you the very first scene, there was a crossover, and the very end scene, there was a crossover. But as the story developed and we kept changing the scripts, we felt like, ‘We don’t need that.” All of us. It was a collective decision. And then I kept thinking: It’s a rule. There has to be a scene at the end that connects us to the MCU. But I think they decided, ‘You know what, the surprise is that there isn’t, and what’s going to make this show unique is it doesn’t need anything else,'” Diab tells Variety.

There are possible projects we might speculate Marc Spector could show up in such as the “Blade” reboot movie or even the “Echo” series, but we’ll have to wait and see what Marvel decides to do.

All six episodes of “Moon Knight” can be now streamed on Disney+.