A new featurette for Morbius hypes a potential face-off between the Living Vampire and Spider-Man.
In the clip, Jared Leto, who stars as Dr. Michael Morbius, describes his character. "Morbius is a Marvel character who's been an important part of the universe," Leto says. "He's brilliant, he's strong, he's got some unique powers, but his powers seem to be out of his control." He concludes by saying the movie "[puts] a new Marvel character on screen that had never been on screen before, and it'll be fun to see where we could go with that. There's a web of opportunity," hinting that his character may cross over with Spider-Man soon.
Introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #101 (written by Roy Thomas, illustrated by Gil Kane) in 1971, Michael Morbius was a brilliant scientist who was dying of a rare and incurable blood disease. He manufactured an experimental cure and tested it on himself, saving his life at the cost of turning him into a "Living Vampire." Morbius' new form gave him a bevy of powers, including super strength, a healing factor and echolocation. However, it also left him with an insatiable thirst for human plasma. A tragic, antiheroic figure, Morbius became both and an ally to Spider-Man, whose radioactive blood was the only thing that could sate his hunger.
Morbius marks the third entry into Sony's Spider-Man Universe, with the first two being the Venom movies. Sony has played coy about the status of its movies and how they relate to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first trailer for Morbius, released almost two years ago, also teased a crossover with Spider-Man's MCU story by featuring background graffiti of the Web-Slinger and a meeting with Adrian Toomes, the villainous Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming (played again by Michael Keaton). Meanwhile, Venom: Let There Be Carnage found its own way to connect to the MCU.
In the featurette, Leto also speaks on what drew him to Morbius. "I love the opportunity to do something transformational," he explained. "It was a very intense physical role: Morbius at his most frail and then most monstrous." The movie will mark Leto's second foray into comic book adaptations, the actor having previously played the Joker in 2016's Suicide Squad. He reprised the role in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
After many delays, Morbius will finally hit theaters on Jan. 28, 2022. Spider-Man, meanwhile, will return in the multiverse-bending Spider-Man: No Way Home, in theaters Dec. 17, 2021.
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