Marvel Zombies Co-Creator Explains Why Blade and Moon Knight Were Merged
In the new Marvel Zombies animated series, the show’s creative team has fused Blade and Moon Knight into a single character known as Blade Knight. Director and co-creator Bryan Andrews recently revealed the reasoning behind this hybrid character in an interview.
Although Mahershala Ali’s Blade made a brief, uncredited voice cameo in Eternals (2021), the planned Blade movie has suffered delays and was removed from Marvel’s release schedule. Andrews said that when the Marvel Zombies team added Blade to their show, they had expected the standalone film to arrive before the series did, but that plan shifted.
To avoid being constrained by the evolving state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and to maintain creative freedom, the team decided to blend Blade with Moon Knight, whose character had already been introduced in the MCU via Oscar Isaac’s series. This allowed Marvel Zombies to chart its own lore without needing to align precisely with the film side. “If he’s the Fist of Khonshu, then we don’t have to worry about trying to figure out what the live-action movies are doing or not doing,” Andrews explained.
Over time, Blade Knight evolved its own distinct personality and characteristics, separate from the source characters, according to Andrews. Todd Williams voices the merged character in the show.
All four episodes of Marvel Zombies are now available to stream on Disney+.