Moon Knight head writer Jeremy Slater revealed the Marvel property he'd most like to work on next is Excalibur.
Slater described adapting the lesser-known X-Men spinoff series for the screen as his "dream project." Citing founding team members Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde as two of his favorite characters, the Moon Knight scribe teased his take on Excalibur would be "super weird" and boast a "dimension-hopping" plot.
Excalibur debuted in 1987's Excalibur Special Edition #1 by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis. The team was led by Captain Britain and its initial roster included Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Phoenix (Rachel Summers, not Jean Grey) and Kitty's pet alien dragon, Lockheed. Excalibur regularly embarked on cross-dimensional adventures that often incorporated elements of Captain Britain's Arthurian legend-inspired backstory. The group has disbanded and reformed several times in the years since, with the team's most recent incarnation joining forces as part of 2019's "Dawn of X" initiative.
Excalibur's strong ties to X-Men continuity and its reliance on the Multiverse concept would've made it an unlikely fit for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the past. Recent developments in the MCU make an adaptation much more viable, however. Not only does Marvel Studios now hold the screen rights to the X-franchise, but Loki, What If...? and Spider-Man: No Way Home have firmly established the existence of the Multiverse within MCU canon. That said, Marvel Studios has yet to officially announce its plans for integrating the X-Men into the MCU, which means fans aren't likely to see Slater's Excalibur any time soon.
Slater's recent flurry of press events and interviews suggests he's currently too occupied with Moon Knight to take on another MCU project yet, anyway. The writer recently addressed the controversy surrounding the alleged erasure of Marc Spector's Jewish heritage in the Disney+ series. "Preserving [Moon Knight's] Jewish faith was important to our entire writing team. It's something that definitely gets explored in later episodes," he wrote.
Slater also commented on how Moon Knight pushes its PG-13 rating to the limit. "I was like, 'But let's get as PG-13 as we possibly can," he said. "'Like, let's give people some goosebumps, let's have some violence in there that you may have never seen before in an MCU thing.' And Marvel was so supportive of that, they were so cool about it."
Moon Knight is now streaming on Disney+, with new episodes arriving every Wednesday.
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