Moon Knight writers considered including Kit Harington’s Eternals character

Moon Knight, the recent Disney+ series starring Oscar Isaac as a superhero with multiple personalities, broke with Marvel tradition by not connecting to the wider MCU in any obvious ways. There was no cameo from Doctor Strange, no visit from Nick Fury…it was just the story of Marc Spector and Steven Grant trying to get along in the same body and stop an ancient Egyptian god from killing masses of people. All pretty standard.

That said, the writers did consider adding in some deeper connections. “I tried very hard to get the Eternals into the show, just because I’m buddies with Kumail Nanjiani,” producer Jeremy Slater told The Direct. “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. You sort of saw this Avatar team-up with the Eternals.”

And now, Slater reveals to ComicBook.com that they wanted another Eternals cast member to appear in Moon Knight: Game of Thrones veteran Kit Harington, who played a historian at London’s Natural History Museum named Dane Whitman.

How Kit Harington would have factored into Moon Knight

Steven Grant also works at a London museum, so the idea was to have the two cross paths. “We talked about Dane Whitman a little bit just because he works in a history museum and that could be a natural interaction,” Slater said.

That said, the post-credits scene of Eternals hinted at Whitman becoming the superhero the Black Knight, which isn’t something Moon Knight had time to deal with; Dane Whitman just would have shown up as a museum employee. Slater didn’t think that was worth it. “My feeling was if we got Kit Harington to show up and he doesn’t suit up and he doesn’t kick ass, as a fan I’m pissed off,” he said. “There’s only so much you can do to tease those reveals before people get frustrated. There was no space in those first two episodes to have him suit up and play Black Knight in the storyline, so we ultimately decided that it didn’t make sense to make this connection. But it was something we definitely talked about a couple days in the room.”

"If I see [Whitman] show up I want to see him go full Black Knight. Just seeing an interaction where he walks past and goes ‘Oh hey Steven,’ who responds ‘Oh, hey Professor Whitman!’ It felt like that would be a waste of the money it would cost Kit Harington in there."

That all makes enough sense. However, part of me wonders if these Eternals cameos were nixed because the movie itself didn’t do very well, at least by Marvel standards. Does that track or am I making things up in my own brain?

Anyway, you can stream all six episodes of Moon Knight now. As for Eternals 2…no news yet.

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