Moon Knight's Arthur Harrow and Layla El-Faouly will have ties to the comics according to the show's producer. Moon Knight is the latest MCU show on Disney+, which stars Oscar Isaac as the titular character of Moon Knight/Marc Spector/Steven Grant, a former mercenary with dissociative identity disorder who is given his superpowers by the moon god Khonshu. Moon Knight was created in Marvel Comics in 1975 by Doug Moench and Don Perlin.

In addition to Isaac, Moon Knight stars Ethan Hawke as cult leader Arthur Harrow, a fairly minor villain in the comics, as well as May Calamawy, who plays Layla El-Faouly, presumably a new character to the show. However, it's been speculated that both characters have more going on than has been revealed as of yet. Some theories have said that Harrow may be Sun King, a pyrotechnic-powered supervillain. For Layla, theories have ranged from her being Marc Spector's wife (named Marlene Alraune in the comics) or even an X-Men character named Layla Miller, but none of this has been confirmed as of yet.

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In an interview with Screen Rant, Moon Knight producer Grant Curtis confirms that both Harrow and Layla will tie back to the comics. Curtis isn't forthcoming in revealing the mystery, but says that there is "connectivity" for both characters to the comic books, but that much of the revelations of who they are will hinge on the performances by both Hawke and Calamawy. Very little is revealed in the first episode of Moon Knight, but Curtis says the layers will be peeled back from episode to episode. Here's his full quote:

I can tell you this: as we peel back the layers episode by episode on Layla and Arthur Harrow, I think what they brought to the table is going to blow the audience away. There's connectivity to the comic books for both characters, but it's really what Ethan and May brought to the table that ultimately made the Layla and the Arthur Harrow that you're going to see on screen.

Moon Knight is being labeled as a mini-series, which consists of six episodes that will run longer than most MCU shows, in order to tackle the dense material that's being pulled from the comics already. For viewers, this means that the wait to find out the revelations of both Harrow and Layla won't be that long, but it also means that the show still has a limited time to pay that off. Thankfully, Curtis has also said that fans coming into Moon Knight won't need to have previous knowledge of the MCU or Moon Knight comics, so long as they're fans of "really good storytelling."

Marvel Studios has blended characters in the past with their films and shows, sometimes subtly and sometimes boldly. Iron Man 3 was one of the first times that a character was blended (with Guy Pearce as "Mandarin"), although that was later retconned a bit in Shang-Chi. There are multiple other examples of these comic-to-screen shifts, which usually serve to blend characters or present a new twist on them, which sometimes works out and sometimes doesn't. Hopefully, the reveals for Harrow and Layla function organically and make sense, while also giving Moon Knight fans a proper payoff for their comic-book counterparts, whomever they may be.

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