Film premiere: ‘Morbius’ with Jared Leto, the Spider-Man villain who comes to the big screen

After several years of delays related to the pandemic, specialized journalists and influencers they could see Morbius in other countries, but most critics do not approve of Jare Leto’s adventures as a vampire under the direction of Swedish filmmaker Daniel Espinosa.

“Morbius is a Marvel character who has been an important part of the universe. He is brilliant. He is strong. He has some unique powers. But it seems that these are out of control, “said Leto, who gets into the skin of Dr. Michael Morbius, a biochemist who suffers from a strange blood ailment. The cure he obtains gives him a series of superhuman abilities, but also an insatiable need to consume human blood.

The actor has claimed that Morbius’s personality was close enough that he recognized that he didn’t find it necessary to use his famous method approach in his portrayal of the character. As much fun as he was, he found the role quite challenging because he was less character-focused than in his previous performances.

Jared is known as someone who likes to disappear into his characters, with two of his most recent roles in film House of Gucci and the TV miniseries WeCrashed (Apple+) relying heavily on state-of-the-art makeup. To represent the transformation of the human Michael Morbius to his alter ego vampire, CGI (computer generated imagery) was used so that the beast can peak throughout the performance, and the result is one that the actor believes makes good use of this technology as a tool of actor.

This character is part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters universe of villains and, together with Venom, integrates Spider-Man’s enemies in the comics and animated series, so, within the formula of this universe, A crucial key piece is missing to keep the project afloat. It is nothing more and nothing less than the same Spider-Man, which to date does not make an appearance in this. But the director of Morbius, faced with the avalanche of claims from fans, promised that the revelation of the wall-crawler is about to be revealed.

In a question session through the CinemaBlend portal, Espinosa revealed that, as fans expected, There is a Spider-Man in this universe of villains. However, he could not give more details about it, but in future tapes it will be known who is the version of the arachnid. “Morbius lives in the same universe as Venom. This is the universe we saw Venom leave at the end of Venom: Carnage Unleashed and to which he returned after the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Of course there is. I understand that the public is about to discover that answer very soon.” the filmmaker said.

It is the first time that Marvel fans will see this villain in the cinema. “This superhero, this supervillain, is bringing to the screen a character that has never been seen before,” explains Leto. That, together with the universe that Sony Pictures is creating and that has already released two installments of Marvel’s most famous symbiote, Venom 1 and 2, with Tom Hardy in the leading role; supposes there are “a million chances” for Morbius. “It will be fun to see how far we can go,” Leto said.

At the moment, not much is known about the direction of this universe created by Sony, there are even real campaigns on social networks so that the Spider-Man who conforms it is the one from the tapes of The Amazing Spiderman, starring Andrew Garfield. Many answers are still unknown, but Morbius is expected to give way to more explanations in its next installment this Thursday, March 31, in movie theaters in Ecuador.

And don’t rush out of the theater. At the end of the movie there are post-credit scenes.

Curiosities of Morbius

• Matt Smith joined the film after previously turning down other superhero film roles, due to the involvement of director Daniel Espinosa and the support of his former Doctor Who co-star Karen Gillan, who plays Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. . Smith gets into the skin of the character Milo.
• The scenes in New York were actually filmed in the Northern Quater in Manchester, UK. All lights, signs, and license plates in the city were changed to match those found in the Big Apple.
• Leto was rumored for another vampire role, Lestat in Josh Boone’s failed Vampire Chronicles reboot.

• Filmmaker Daniel Espinosa also directed the sci-fi horror film Life (2017), with Jake Gyllenhaall, which was rumored to be a prequel to Venom (2018).
• Morbius second SSMU movie to tie into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).
• The second Morbius trailer features the song People Are Strange which was previously used in the vampire movie hidden youth (1987).
• With this movie, both Jared Leto and Michael Keaton (Adrian Toomes/Vulture) will have played characters from both DC and Marvel. leto in suicide squad as The Joker, while Keaton will have participated in both this universe and the MCU and as the titular Batman in the DC Film Universe.
• According to the late comic book writer and artist Gil Kane, Morbius’s look was based on actor Jack Palance, who played Carl Grissom in Batman (1989) and his character is killed by the Joker (Jack Nicholson). Jared Leto played the Joker in suicide squad (2016) and Zack Snyder’s, Justice League (2021) and Michael Keaton played the Batman in Batman (1989).
• Morbius’ first appearance in a comic was in The Amazing Spiderman #101 (October 1971).
• The Puerto Rican Adria Arjona, daughter of the Guatemalan singer Arjona, gets into the skin of Martine Bancroft, the girlfriend of Michael Morbius.