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  • Jared Leto wants Morbius and Spider-Man to team up in Future

    Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man universe movie Morbius is set to release in two weeks’ time on 1st April and the stakes are as high as it gets. Sony Studios’ take Morbius has the potential to become one of the strongest Spider-Man villains we have seen to date on the screen and it is thus important that the movie gets the sort of reaction that Sony wants it to so that we could see more of Morbius in Sony’s Marvel-verse in days to come.

    Meanwhile, actor Jared Leto, who plays the role of Morbius in his namesake movie has opened up on his ambitions of teaming up with Spider-Man Tom Holland in a Marvel project. In comic books, Morbius has mostly been shown as a villain but often he is also referred to as an anti-villain. Sony is most likely to go down that anti-hero role similar to what they did in the Venom franchise.

    Jared Leto on a possible Crossover between Morbius and Spider-Man

    Speaking up on that topic on the red carpet for the Critic’s choice award, Jared Leto told Entertainment tonight, “Well, I tell you that I would love to get in the ring with Spider-Man and I think Tom Holland is amazing. We’d make quite a dynamic duo, I guess.”

    He also quickly promoted his upcoming movie by saying that Morbius will present a ‘different take on the Marvel Universe.

    “I think it’s a different take on the Marvel universe, and it’s a brand new character so I’m super excited to share that with audiences, April 1st. April 1st, coming out. Very excited, in theatres only,” he said.

    – Jared leto

    Jared Leto’s words might prove to be right after all because the appearance of Adrian Toomes a.k.a Vulture in the movie has opened up gateways to the Tom Holland’s possible future appearance in the Sony Universe.

    Morbius will serve as an origin story for Marvel’s namesake anti-hero. Dr Michael Morbius who is a Nobel prize-winning Biochemist suffers from a rare blood disease that is slowly killing him and millions of others on the planet. In an attempt to find a cure for himself with the help of bats, Morbius mistakenly turns himself into a living bloodthirsty vampire who needs to drink human blood to survive. However, he goes through phases which means that he does not always remain in his vampire form.

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  • Sony makes big change in latest Morbius Poster – Finally fixes the movie’s ‘Possible’ MCU problem

    Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff ‘Morbius’ is set to hit the theaters on 1st April, 2022. The movie was initially scheduled to release on 28th January but the date was later postponed due to the surge of COVID-19 cases across the globe from the Omicron variant. 

    After the success of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, Marvel’s web slinging superhero is topping the Worldwide trending list consistently. Spider-Man is perhaps the most in-demand super hero in the world right now and Sony looks to cash in on this opportunity. 

    Morbius is only the first of many more Sony’s Spider-Man Universe films that are set to release in the near future. However, rather than taking a further deep dive into the life of Peter Parker (or some other versions of Spider-Man like say Miles Morales), Sony has planned to bring out the Anti-heroes of classic Spider-Man comics in their Spiderverse. 

    Sony’s Venom, which was their first attempt at such a spinoff, has already been a huge success and Morbius looks to follow a similar path. 

    The film ‘Morbius’ is the origin story of Dr. Michael Morbius who turned himself into a Living Vampire. He was a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and was trying to find a cure for a rare blood disease that he suffered from. His attempt to find a cure for himself, however, turned into a curse as he became a Vampire instead and gained superhuman powers and a thirst for blood. 

    He needs blood to survive but the worst part of his curse was that right after drinking the blood of his victim, Dr. Michael Morbius was filled with remorse and guilt. Jared Leto, who is playing Morbius in the movie, has looked promising in the trailer. 

    Why Vulture should NOT be in ‘Morbius’

    However, a confusing part of Morbius’ trailer and initial posters was Sony’s unnecessary bait of showing MCU’s Vulture played by Michael Keaton whom we saw in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ to suggest Morbius’ connection with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

    Netizens had seen it as a weak hearted attempt to lure audiences to the theaters with the bait of a possible connection between MCU and Sony’s Spiderverse. 

    This was however self destructive as this is Morbius’ origin story and the character needs some space. The focus in an origin movie must be solely on the Main character. Thus, these continuous hints and MCU connections just defeat the purpose of the movie.

    We know that Sony has been trying from a long time to pull off a Sinister Six storyline but bringing in Vulture so soon and that too straight out of an MCU movie would be rather abrupt and uncalled for. 

    Sony corrects it’s mistake

     

    Keeping that in mind, Sony has made a big change in Morbius’ latest poster. They have removed Vulture completely from the poster and have focused on Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius – like it should have been to begin with. 

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