With every single addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there is going to be a question of just how connected to the overall universe it is. Shang-Chi and Eternals were great examples of telling your own story while also connecting things in loose and also tangible ways. For the upcoming Disney+ series Moon Knight, the questions about how connected it is to everything is very much still prevalent in the minds of the fans.
So, thankfully, the producer of the show is here to help give you the information you want without spoiling anything.
“Moon Knight is very much in the MCU,” Grant Curtis said. “The observant viewer is going to hear and see those Easter eggs we drop that do explain that and confirm that.”
“We looked at the very first comics he appeared in, in 1975, and we looked over the years of storytelling, over the decades of Moon Knight stories, [and asked] what are the themes and tones that we’re gravitating towards as storytellers?” Curtis said. “We never intentionally tried to make this standalone.”
That is good news for those who indeed want the character to be tied to the MCU overall, but, that doesn’t exactly mean that the show is going to have a lot of big cameos (like Shang-Chi did) to help tie it all together. Given that this is a niche character, it’s very likely they’re going to want to make it so that the character can stand on his own before tying him into the overall MCU.
This would also fit with the nature of Moon Knight in the comics. Because while he has mingled with the Avengers and other groups over time, he’s very much an anti-hero who has his own agenda and goals in terms of how he gets things done. We’ll find out which we’re getting when the series starts tomorrow.
Source: Inverse
