Morbius the Living Vampire Movie in the Works With 'Power Rangers' Writers - Page 6

*Coola Yagami* · 03-30-2022, 07:54 PM

Venom is actually cool though, and as for villains, he always had Carnage at the very least.

I can't think of a villain for Morbius that flat out isn't Spider-Man, cause I know that they can't use Blade nor can they have Blade lose or be killed.

I just have no interest. Morbius never interested me. It's as if they made a movie about Hammerhead or Tombstone.

*neatoman* · 03-30-2022, 08:28 PM

The thing about Morbius technically being the most successful spin-off character, aside from Venom, the Punisher (who they can't use) and characters flat out cribbing the Spider-Man name, is that I always wondered why? There is actually a Morbius book that lasted 32 issues, meaning a sufficient number of people actually read a Morbius book for over two years. In a pure numbers sense I guess it makes sense to make this movie before you make the Black Cat movie.

That said, who actually likes this character? Doesn't he basically just exist because Roy Thomas wanted to fuck with the CCA by creating a Vampire character that lacked the defining features of vampires according to them? His gimmick has literally been pointless since... Well, at least a year after he was introduced because that's when Marvel started making Dracula comics.

*Andrew NDB* · 03-31-2022, 12:46 AM

"@DiscussingFilm
‘MORBIUS’ is the definition of a studio product designed only to take your money on the promise of a greater “universe” on the horizon and CGI Jared Leto flying around for 2 hours."

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking it would be. Like everything Marvel that Sony has done without Marvel since Spider-Man 2.

Makes you wonder. When Morbius fails, is Kevin Feige face-palming or doing a fist pump?

~~AquaParade~~ · 03-31-2022, 11:42 AM

I'm expecting an MCU Spider-Man announcement in the next week or so. This is a good reminder to Sony to do what they need to do, in order to keep Marvel involved. This gives Disney some leverage and allows Sony to change the subject from Morbius to Spider-Man.

Just a guess.

*Andrew NDB* · 03-31-2022, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by AquaParade

I'm expecting an MCU Spider-Man announcement in the next week or so. This is a good reminder to Sony to do what they need to do, in order to keep Marvel involved. This gives Disney some leverage and allows Sony to change the subject from Morbius to Spider-Man.

Just a guess.

Yeah, but Morbius needs to fail, and fail hard at the box office. Bad reviews will do a little but won't be enough to move the meter with Spider-Man.

~~AquaParade~~ · 03-31-2022, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Yeah, but Morbius needs to fail, and fail hard at the box office. Bad reviews will do a little but won't be enough to move the meter with Spider-Man.

True. Maybe Leto's whole cult shows up with a friend.

*Andrew NDB* · 03-31-2022, 12:51 PM

Best Morbius review:

https://www.imdb.com/review/rw801987...e4XRIqWnRkObHM

*Andrew NDB* · 04-03-2022, 01:01 AM

Just saw it.

* Nothing at all stands out in it but it's not nearly as bad as I suspected it would be. It's actually fairly competent. I probably enjoyed it a little more than the first Venom.

* Vampire bats aren't like that.

* Definitely could've benefitted from an R-rating, probably even moreso than the Venom movies. A super-vampire going around a room slashing 8-9 throats is pretty lame to see in PG-13.

* You can definitely see when you're watching a "Reshoot" scene. Leto's body looks way buffer and the coloring is different. I spotted 2 or 3 scenes that were definitely added in (clumsily) to add some "character moments" with a little levity. Tonally they feel as different as the Whedon stuff from the Snyder stuff in JL.

* I was a little confused about the structure. We begin a little bit ahead in time, with a still-human Morbius in the vampire bat cave. There is a device there, he cuts his hand and they fly all around him -- I thought we were seeing the moment he becomes Morbius. Then we cut to him as a boy, then closer to the present. At one point we see his vampire bat collection in the lab. Maybe this is my fault, but I kept waiting for us to arrive at that island and for him to go to the cave.

* Morbius' line in the trailers to the thugs about "I'm just kidding, it's your friend, Dr. Michael Morbius, at your service" is gone, replaced with just some kind of a "Get outta here!"

* On that note, how he acquires his new lab is silly and stupid. He overhears something about a lab at a restaurant... just follows some punks there and scares them out of it?

* You can definitely guess where the original Michael Keaton stuff would have gone. When Moribus goes to jail and is locked up... I bet he met Vulture there and when he escaped, Vulture followed and was probably like, "Thanks, Morbius! I owe ya one. Say, I was thinking about starting up a blah blah." But clearly Marvel made the final decision to keep the Venom/Morbius universe separate probably late into the game.

* The Keaton stuff at the end. I didn't notice this in the reviews here, but Keaton doesn't actually tell Morbius he wants to make a group to fight Spider-Man at all. It's not even hinted. He just says he wants to start a group. Maybe they won't even be fighting Spider-Man? If that's true then absolutely they're gonna round out the 6 with the "Reformed" versions of Goblin and Doc Ock and Electro and all. For sure. Also this final Vulture bit, they only used Keaton's voice. He's clearly not really there.

* Looking at the original 2 Morbius trailers, it looks like there is a whole deleted scene/storyline in a park in the daytime. Cop cars are rushing to it over the grass and Tyrese is there with some kind of big mechanical/cybernetic device on his arm. This isn't in the movie. Could be this was from the original end credits sequence and connected to the Vulture. i.e., in the original movie Vulture escaped with Morbius out of the jail and then at the end of the movie has some kind of altercation in-costume in a park? Dunno. Just guessing.

*neatoman* · 04-03-2022, 07:17 AM

So this movie isn't doing too hot at the box office, not that surprising. I realise that my showing may have been around 3 PM on a Wednesday but it was still pretty empty, even for a showing not a lot of people are expected to catch.

Still, this movie allegedly only cost 75 million to make. It would have to make less than 200 million to be considered a bomb.

*Andrew NDB* · 04-05-2022, 04:46 PM

Jared Leto made people take him in a wheelchair to go to the bathroom on set:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/morbius...-letos-method/

*neatoman* · 04-05-2022, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Jared Leto made people take him in a wheelchair to go to the bathroom on set:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/morbius...-letos-method/

Morbius mainly uses crutches in the movie, not a wheelchair. If he was just soooo dedicated to the role, he should have tried going to the bathroom with the crutches, not a wheelchair.

*Andrew NDB* · 04-05-2022, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by neatoman

Morbius mainly uses crutches in the movie, not a wheelchair. If he was just soooo dedicated to the role, he should have tried going to the bathroom with the crutches, not a wheelchair.

He did. And it was taking an hour to do so every time, so they compromised and had crew wheel him to the bathroom in a wheelchair.

*neatoman* · 04-05-2022, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

He did. And it was taking an hour to do so every time, so they compromised and had crew wheel him to the bathroom in a wheelchair.

... Ok... Well, at least it's not mailing dead rats, so that's an improvement... I guess?

*ZariusTwo* · 06-03-2022, 10:27 AM

Everyone now loves watching the movie to make fun of it, so it's being re-released

https://www.cinemablend.com/superher...ng-to-theaters

~~Leo656~~ · 06-03-2022, 10:29 AM

What, is it gonna be the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" of comic book movies?

It's a way to go, I guess. But clearly, that was not the intention.

superstaff · 06-03-2022, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leo656

What, is it gonna be the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" of comic book movies?

It's a way to go, I guess. But clearly, that was not the intention.

Yeah, I think it's Sony trying to a) try to recoup more money for the movie, and b) trying to spin the movie into a meme ala The Room or something. I haven't watched Morbius, though it strikes me as being too bland to really be a 'So Bad It's Good' type of flick.

*oldmanwinters* · 06-03-2022, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leo656

What, is it gonna be the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" of comic book movies?

It's a way to go, I guess. But clearly, that was not the intention.

I guess you could say it "rose from the dead."

*IMJ* · 06-03-2022, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leo656

What, is it gonna be the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" of comic book movies?

It's a way to go, I guess. But clearly, that was not the intention.

"The Room."

~~Sumac~~ · 06-03-2022, 12:34 PM

What the morb is morbin' out there, fellow Morbs?

03-30-2022, 07:54 PM	#101
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03-31-2022, 12:46 AM	#103
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,560	"@DiscussingFilm ‘MORBIUS’ is the definition of a studio product designed only to take your money on the promise of a greater “universe” on the horizon and CGI Jared Leto flying around for 2 hours." Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking it would be. Like everything Marvel that Sony has done without Marvel since Spider-Man 2. Makes you wonder. When Morbius fails, is Kevin Feige face-palming or doing a fist pump? __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

03-31-2022, 12:51 PM	#107
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,560	Best Morbius review: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw801987...e4XRIqWnRkObHM __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

04-03-2022, 01:01 AM	#108
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,560	Just saw it. * Nothing at all stands out in it but it's not nearly as bad as I suspected it would be. It's actually fairly competent. I probably enjoyed it a little more than the first Venom. * Vampire bats aren't like that. * Definitely could've benefitted from an R-rating, probably even moreso than the Venom movies. A super-vampire going around a room slashing 8-9 throats is pretty lame to see in PG-13. * You can definitely see when you're watching a "Reshoot" scene. Leto's body looks way buffer and the coloring is different. I spotted 2 or 3 scenes that were definitely added in (clumsily) to add some "character moments" with a little levity. Tonally they feel as different as the Whedon stuff from the Snyder stuff in JL. * I was a little confused about the structure. We begin a little bit ahead in time, with a still-human Morbius in the vampire bat cave. There is a device there, he cuts his hand and they fly all around him -- I thought we were seeing the moment he becomes Morbius. Then we cut to him as a boy, then closer to the present. At one point we see his vampire bat collection in the lab. Maybe this is my fault, but I kept waiting for us to arrive at that island and for him to go to the cave. * Morbius' line in the trailers to the thugs about "I'm just kidding, it's your friend, Dr. Michael Morbius, at your service" is gone, replaced with just some kind of a "Get outta here!" * On that note, how he acquires his new lab is silly and stupid. He overhears something about a lab at a restaurant... just follows some punks there and scares them out of it? * You can definitely guess where the original Michael Keaton stuff would have gone. When Moribus goes to jail and is locked up... I bet he met Vulture there and when he escaped, Vulture followed and was probably like, "Thanks, Morbius! I owe ya one. Say, I was thinking about starting up a blah blah." But clearly Marvel made the final decision to keep the Venom/Morbius universe separate probably late into the game. * The Keaton stuff at the end. I didn't notice this in the reviews here, but Keaton doesn't actually tell Morbius he wants to make a group to fight Spider-Man at all. It's not even hinted. He just says he wants to start a group. Maybe they won't even be fighting Spider-Man? If that's true then absolutely they're gonna round out the 6 with the "Reformed" versions of Goblin and Doc Ock and Electro and all. For sure. Also this final Vulture bit, they only used Keaton's voice. He's clearly not really there. * Looking at the original 2 Morbius trailers, it looks like there is a whole deleted scene/storyline in a park in the daytime. Cop cars are rushing to it over the grass and Tyrese is there with some kind of big mechanical/cybernetic device on his arm. This isn't in the movie. Could be this was from the original end credits sequence and connected to the Vulture. i.e., in the original movie Vulture escaped with Morbius out of the jail and then at the end of the movie has some kind of altercation in-costume in a park? Dunno. Just guessing. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ] Last edited by Andrew NDB; 04-03-2022 at 02:27 AM.

04-05-2022, 04:46 PM	#110
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,560	Jared Leto made people take him in a wheelchair to go to the bathroom on set: https://www.darkhorizons.com/morbius...-letos-method/ __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

03-31-2022, 11:42 AM	#104
~~AquaParade~~ Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 8,450	I'm expecting an MCU Spider-Man announcement in the next week or so. This is a good reminder to Sony to do what they need to do, in order to keep Marvel involved. This gives Disney some leverage and allows Sony to change the subject from Morbius to Spider-Man. Just a guess.

06-03-2022, 10:27 AM	#114
ZariusTwo Overlord Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Britain, DINO THUNDER...POWER UP! Posts: 22,496	Everyone now loves watching the movie to make fun of it, so it's being re-released https://www.cinemablend.com/superher...ng-to-theaters __________________ Spider-Man: The Rescue Spider-Man: The Galloping Cat Spider-Man: Scarlet Mirror Doctor Who: Child of the Daleks

06-03-2022, 10:29 AM	#115
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	What, is it gonna be the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" of comic book movies? It's a way to go, I guess. But clearly, that was not the intention.

06-03-2022, 12:34 PM	#119
~~Sumac~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 6,129	What the morb is morbin' out there, fellow Morbs?