After making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut earlier this year with his surprise appearance as the Stonekeeper – a.k.a. The Red Skull – in Avengers: Infinity War, The Walking Dead star Ross Marquand is already eyeing another MCU role, with the actor revealing AiPT that he’d love to play Moon Knight.
“It’s tough because a lot of my friends have said Moon Knight is essentially just Marvel’s answer to Batman, but I don’t agree with that. I agree that there are similarities, but Moon Knight was a mercenary–kind of a gun for hire who didn’t really have much regard for people before he had his moment of awakening, I guess. And Bruce was always a good guy–even as a kid, he was torn by revenge, but he wasn’t this bloodthirsty killer like Moon Knight was.
“So I think that, coupled with what they’ve been doing the last 15 years with the character–going into the dissociative identity disorder, really calling in to question if everything happening is all in his head, is he actually a vigilante killer or did he die in Egypt? It brings up a slew of questions, and that to me has never really been delved into in any comic book character before–the idea of, is any of this actually happening? Is he crazy? Is he killing good people? Is he actually dead in Egypt? Those are such amazing questions and I don’t feel like any comic book series before or since has really tapped into that. So for me, playing a crazy superhero would be awesome. So Moon Knight, Moon Knight for sure.”
Marvel may well soon have a vacancy for an actor to play Marc Spector; over the past couple of years there have been persistent rumours about a potential Moon Knight TV series, while Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has recently confirmed that there are plans for the character at some point in the future.
