Morbius the Living Vampire Movie in the Works With 'Power Rangers' Writers
 

Sony’s cinematic universe based on Spider-Man characters just got a little bigger.

The studio is developing Morbius, a feature project centered on Spider-Man antihero Morbius the Living Vampire.

Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, who worked on the recent Power Rangers movie, wrote the script, which was just submitted to the studio after a secret development process.

Morbius was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #101, the first issue not written by Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee.

Morbius is Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who suffered from a rare blood disease and attempted to cure himself to disastrous results. He instead became afflicted with a condition that was a form of vampirism — the thirst for blood, along with fangs and super strength — and fought Spider-Man. Over time, however, he became a slightly heroic figure in his own right.

Details of Sony’s take on the character are not known.

Sony has been furiously developing its stable of Marvel-licensed characters that are mostly based off the heroes and villains that are connected to Spider-Man. The studio, however, is being coy as to whether or not these new movies will be connected to Sony’s Tom Holland movies or connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that is being produced by Marvel Studios.

Sony had no comment.

Sharpless and Sazama previously tackled vampirism with Dracula Untold, Universal’s origin of the most famous vampire that starred Luke Evans. They also count The Last Witch Hunter and Gods of Egypt among their credits.

The duo also are showrunning and writing the Lost in Space reboot for Netflix that is to debut next year.

They are repped by ICM Partners.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...riters-1056702

No matter how much or hard we mock Sony, they keep throwing these out there.

Cripes.

they are taking the DCEU approach throw **** out there and see if any of it gets made

Haha, this isn't actually going to get a green light, right? Right?

Hey now! The DCEU is miles ahead of Sony.

They're just also miles behind the MCU... :tsad:

Words of wisdom from another vampire in the Marvel universe:

https://memegenerator.net/img/instan...ate-uphill.jpg

Morbius might be my favorite Spiderman villain, but I don't think I want this. :tlol:

Um, okay.

It's like they're trying to make "fetch" happen

Ah, Sony.
You never change do you?
*smh*

This would only interest me if it were somehow tied to a Blade revival. I can't imagine it is, though.

First look at Morbius Trailer Monday

https://i.imgur.com/lksZsOy.jpg

Interestingly enough, three years later you have your Blade revival coming (Blade: Revival... lol that would be a good double entendre name for a film), but it has nothing to do with Morbius, operated by Sony.

Not unlless they go beyond the planned Spider-Man appearance in Venom to mix all of the Sony-verse with the MCU.

From that glimpse, it looks awesome.

Venom looks awesome too though and I can’t finish that movie.

I'm actually kind of interested in this, but only because I am somewhat familiar with Morbius, and have always kind of liked him as a character. Venom, Morbius, Blade- it sounds liket hey are gearing up to do a Nightstalkers movie! All they need is Hannibal King and maybe Dracula to fill out their cast roster.

The Trailer is expected to drop tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/s...018572289?s=20

Also that Morbius appears to be close to the Comics.

https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...92&oe=5EAEFEED

God dammit. Is that Jared Leto? Pass.

And here I was letting myself hope.

Bland and lame looking.

That is some stinky ass shared-universe bait, unless Michael Keaton is, in fact, playing Adrian Toomes in this film. How about that Spider-Man "murderer" poster though? That certainly implies that this is an extension of the MCU, even if the poster is featuring a video-game screenshot of the Sam Raimi suit. Oh boy.

Hard to say with this one, but I have very little faith. The trailer though is just terrible. I won't place that on the movie.

What's the thing with these trailers about... we'll show you a bunch of crap, and then in the last 2 seconds before the credits splash we'll show you a TINY glimpse of what the titular character actually looks like.

I would have cut it into a third, upped the ominous music, given a couple more of those intense Morbius vampire shots. I was bored with all the build-up the trailer did.

That said, I didn't major in marketing or anything. Maybe they know what sells, but this certainly wasn't an appealing trailer to me. I have less interest in the film now than I did a few days ago.

The build-up stuff only works if it's a well established character we're all very eager to see. Like Superman in the Man of Steel trailers, or Spider-Man in the Spider-Man trailers.

Morbius? Nobody has any idea who he is. And it's fine that nobody does, this just isn't the way to sell this.

I can see that you may be right, but I'm sure their thinking is the opposite. I can understand the rational behind "Nobody knows this character, so we better use this trailer to set him up, introduce him, etc.".

But to your point, it's rather quite boring to follow the origin through that many steps, and leaves me feeling like the film will be plodding and slow. I think that's sort of what happens when you weigh out a trailer in this way.

It's not that I want them to give me all the good stuff. Less could have been more. Just balanced out a bit.

Looks interesting to me, so I will be seeing this one after all.

Pushed back to March 19, 2021

https://collider.com/ghostbusters-mo...source=twitter

Wow... Really? Not quite New Mutants levels of silly but still.

Sony did that with all the movies this year Peter Rabbit 2 Ghostbusters Afterlife and so on.

Now Morbius won't be out until October 8th 2021

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/mo...irus-pandemic/

Poor Michael. He just can't catch a break, even when it comes to the release of his movie.

Whatever happened to Venom sequel? Didn't that finish filming early on in 2020? They must be wrapped by now.

From wikipedia:

Thanks. I shouldn't ask questions that are easy to search for, but I appreciate it. I didn't enjoy Venom, but I'm still as curious about the sequel as I was about the original, so that's something.

Now January 21st, 2022.

Jesus.

WTF just throw this up on a streaming service already

It's possible there are MCU tie-ins that they need to delay for.

Possibly. There are new reshoots and Morbius might just bump into Blade:

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/spide...2080#gs.sagq85

Trailer tomorrow.

tbh I had completely forgotten about this movie (and my hype level is still hovering somewhere around a 2.5) but I am a little intrigued now with all the other things going on in the Marvel/Sony movies

I'm amazed Jared Leto gets so much work considering everyone is supposed to hate him nowadays. :lol:

Trailer