Marvel Star Says a Midnight Sons Crossover Is a No-Brainer — and They’re Pushing to Make It Happen

Marvel has been wobbling since Avengers: Endgame. A bunch of stuff fans wanted never materialized, and with Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars on the horizon ( aka a big ol' reset button), a lot of those missed chances might get locked out for good. One thing I am not ready to watch slip away: the supernatural team-up fans have been chanting for since forever. Good news: Oscar Isaac is right there with us, still pushing for it, and he wants the internet to crank the volume.

Oscar Isaac is still banging the Midnight Sons drum

Isaac led Marvel's Moon Knight on Disney+ back in 2022 and has basically been parked on the bench ever since. No public sign he is part of Doomsday/Secret Wars. And honestly, those Avengers movies were never the dream for Moon Knight anyway. The dream was a darker, pulpier crossover: Moon Knight teaming with Blade, Ghost Rider, Werewolf by Night, Elsa Bloodstone, and the rest of Marvel's monster-hunting crowd. Fans have wanted Midnight Sons for years. The kicker: every one of those characters has already shown up in Marvel projects. The pieces are literally on the board. The team-up never happened.

On Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Isaac leaned into the rumor that Ryan Gosling could be Marvel's new Ghost Rider and basically said: yeah, let us do the thing already.

'Make it happen, fellas. I mean, it is a no-brainer.'

He even painted the poster in your head, roping in Mahershala Ali's Blade:

'Me on the back of the bike, just holding on to him, you know? I mean, come on, man! Fire and the cape... That is the poster!'

And then he tossed the baton straight to fans:

'Make it happen, internet. Make that poster happen.'

This should be an easy win, and it is wild we are still talking about it

Superhero movies and horror movies are the two most reliable box office genres. Put them together and you have a layup. Yet Marvel has not pulled the trigger on Midnight Sons, and DC also left its own occult team (Justice League Dark) in limbo. Meanwhile, the 2020s have not been kind to capes, but horror has popped off with buzzy indies like Longlegs and Barbarian and big box office swings like Weapons and Sinners. The window has been sitting open this whole time.

Where the would-be Midnight Sons are right now

• Moon Knight (Oscar Isaac): Debuted in 2022 on Disney+. Nothing since. Isaac's career is thriving to the point where he does not need Marvel, and it is unclear if he factors into Doomsday/Secret Wars at all.
• Blade (Mahershala Ali): Multi-Oscar-winner signed on years ago. The solo reboot has stalled and reshuffled enough times that his Marvel future looks shaky from the outside.
• Ghost Rider: Longstanding rumor mill favorite. Isaac openly backed Ryan Gosling for the role. If Gosling really is doing a Star Wars movie next and then turned around to play Ghost Rider, that could be the momentum jolt this crossover needs.
• Werewolf by Night (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Elsa Bloodstone (Laura Donnelly): Both popped in Marvel's 2022 Special Presentation, made a splash, and then... nothing. The actors moved on.
• Bottom line: All these characters have already been introduced on screen. The crossover never happened, and the clock is ticking.

So, can it still happen?

Sure. One marquee casting can change everything. If Marvel locks a Ghost Rider that gets people buzzing (Gosling or otherwise) and lets Isaac, Ali, Bernal, and Donnelly cook, you have a fresh corner of the MCU that plays to audience appetite right now. Isaac is literally asking fans to make noise. Your move, Marvel.

Moon Knight is streaming on Disney+.