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.