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Morbius
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDaniel Espinosa
Written by
  • Matt Sazama
  • Burk Sharpless
Based onMarvel Comics
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyOliver Wood
Edited byPietro Scalia[1]
Music byJon Ekstrand
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
  • March 10, 2022 (2022-03-10) (Plaza Carso)
  • April 1, 2022 (2022-04-01) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75–83 million[3][4]
Box office$85 million[5][6]

Morbius is a 2022 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the third film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU). Directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, it stars Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, alongside Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. In the film, Morbius becomes a living vampire after curing himself of a rare disease.

After announcing plans for a new shared universe of films inspired by Spider-Man characters beginning with Venom (2018), Sony began developing a film based on Morbius. Sazama and Sharpless had written a script by November 2017, and Leto and Espinosa officially joined in June 2018. Work began in earnest at the end of the year with further casting, ahead of production starting in London in February 2019. Filming was confirmed to have been completed by June 2019.

Morbius premiered at the Plaza Carso in Mexico City on March 10, 2022, and was released in the United States on April 1, 2022, after being delayed several times from an initial July 2020 date primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film received negative reviews from critics, with many calling it uninspired and dated, although Leto and Smith's performances received some praise.

Plot

At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be "normal". Their adoptive father and hospital director Nicholas arranges for Michael to attend medical school in New York while he focuses on caring for Milo.

Twenty-five years later, Michael publicly declines a Nobel Prize for his work with synthetic blood. Michael's colleague Martine Bancroft discovers he has secretly captured dozens of vampire bats from Costa Rica in the hope of splicing their genes with his own to cure his condition. After informing Nicholas and Milo of his planned experiment, Michael receives funding to outfit a private mercenary vessel in international waters with his equipment. While the cure works, it transforms Michael into a vampire. Michael kills and drains the crew of their blood after they attack him out of fear. Once his bloodlust subsides and he regains his senses, a horrified Michael erases all CCTV footage of his experiment before contacting the authorities and jumping overboard.

Michael returns to New York and discovers he has superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and echolocation. He subsists on his synthetic blood until it gradually ceases to satisfy his needs. FBI agents Simon Stroud and Al Rodriguez investigate Michael's victims and deduce his involvement. Milo learns that Michael is cured, but becomes furious when Michael refuses to cure him as well. While checking on a hospitalized Bancroft, Michael finds a dead nurse, drained of her blood. Believing he was responsible, he attempts to escape before being cornered and arrested. In prison, Michael is visited by Milo, who offers to use his wealth to free him. Upon realizing Milo took his cure and killed the nurse, Michael escapes to confront him. An unrepentant Milo confesses to his crimes and urges Michael to embrace his powers as he has. Unwilling to hurt his brother, Michael flees.

Michael meets Bancroft to explain what Milo has done before acquiring a new lab and developing an anticoagulant to stop and kill Milo; he also plans to use it on himself since he will become unable to resist his bloodlust. Stroud and Rodriguez find footage of one of Milo's attacks and release it to the media. Nicholas recognizes Milo and pleads with him to stop. Angered by Nicholas' perceived preference for Michael, Milo wounds and forces him to call Michael. Michael watches Nicholas die while Milo attacks Bancroft. Michael returns to Bancroft, but she dies in his arms and he drinks her blood. Michael confronts Milo and summons an army of bats to restrain him and inject the anticoagulant. Milo dies and Michael flies off with the bats, mourning his loved ones and embracing his identity as a vampire. Unbeknownst to him, Bancroft is revived by her newly developed vampiric powers.

Adrian Toomes is transported to Michael's universe by a spell.[a] Assuming that his transportation involved Spider-Man, Toomes approaches Michael and suggests that they form a team.[b]

Cast

  • Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius:
    A scientist suffering from a rare blood disease whose attempts to cure himself afflict him with a form of transgenic vampirism,[8][9] gaining superhuman abilities but none of the superstitious weaknesses associated with vampires. Leto was drawn to the character's struggle with his disease and the moral implications of a hero who has a thirst for blood.[10] He found the role surprisingly challenging since it was less character-driven than his prior performances and closer to his real-life personality, not requiring his well-known method acting approach.[11]
  • Matt Smith as Milo Morbius:
    Morbius' surrogate brother, a rich man originally named Lucien who suffers from the same rare blood disease as Michael. When Milo gains the same abilities as Michael, he embraces them and becomes a villain. Smith was originally announced to play comic book character Loxias Crown / Hunger, but later changed to a significantly different character based on Morbius himself.[12] After previously turning down other superhero film roles, Smith joined the film due to director Daniel Espinosa's involvement and encouragement from his Doctor Who castmate Karen Gillan, who portrays Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[13] Espinosa encouraged Smith to give a bold, villainous performance.[12]
    • Joseph Esson as young Milo.[14]
  • Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft: A scientist and Michael's girlfriend.[15][16] Arjona said the character was "the smart one in the room" and took inspiration from politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.[17]
  • Jared Harris as Dr. Emil Nicholas: A mentor and father figure for Michael and Milo who runs a facility that looks after people with incurable illnesses.[18]
  • Al Madrigal as Alberto "Al" Rodriguez: An FBI agent hunting Michael.[19]
  • Tyrese Gibson as Simon Stroud:
    An FBI agent hunting Michael.[20][19] Gibson noted that the character is white in the comic books, and the producers "made him black" to cast Gibson. Stroud has a "hi-tech weapons-grade arm" in the film, and Gibson described him as a superhero.[21] Gibson signed a three-picture deal when he joined the film.[22]

Corey Johnson portrays Mr. Fox,[23] while Michael Keaton appears in the mid-credits scenes as Adrian Toomes / Vulture, reprising his role from the MCU film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).[24]

Production

Development

Artisan Entertainment announced a deal with Marvel Entertainment in May 2000 to co-produce, finance, and distribute several films based on Marvel Comics characters, including Morbius, the Living Vampire.[25] Previously, the character was set to appear in Blade (1998), portrayed by director Stephen Norrington in a cameo appearance ahead of a larger role in a sequel. However, the character was cut from the first film and not introduced in Blade II (2002) after Norrington chose not to return for that film.[26] In May 2017, Sony announced plans for a new shared universe featuring Spider-Man-related properties beginning with Venom in October 2018;[27] this was later titled "Sony's Spider-Man Universe".[28] In July, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) director Jon Watts expressed interest in featuring Morbius and Blade in the then untitled Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), believing that the character's dark tone could work well within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[29] That November, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless submitted a script to Sony for a Morbius film, after a "secret development process" at the studio.[30] Jared Leto became "loosely attached" to star in the title role, but would not commit to the film until he was happy with its direction; Leto asked to personally meet with several director candidates.[31]

Jared Leto stars in the title role. Director Daniel Espinosa joined the film after meeting with Leto while he was on tour with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars.

By the end of April 2018, Sony had approached Antoine Fuqua about potentially directing the film. He expressed interest in taking on the project, and said that if he was to make a film in the superhero genre he would want to make it "something that's closer to what I get excited about."[32] He ultimately chose not to take on the project.[31] Other directors that Sony approached about the film included F. Gary Gray, who considered directing the film but ultimately turned down the role,[33] and Daniel Espinosa, who previously directed the film Life (2017) for the studio.[31] In May, while on tour in Germany with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto met with Espinosa to talk about the film,[31] and the pair were both confirmed for the project at the end of June. Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster were producing,[9] and filming was expected to begin by the end of 2018. Sony was expected to fit the film into its already-set Marvel release slate shortly.[31]

Pre-production

By the end of September, Sony was intending for production on the film to take place in Atlanta, Georgia—where Spider-Man: Homecoming and Venom were previously produced—but had still not set a release date for the film.[34][35] Screen Rant's Cooper Hood opined that Sony was likely waiting to see the response to Venom in early October, with Arad confirming at that time that there was excitement at Sony to produce Morbius, especially due to the story of a "healer that becomes a killer, and how do you deal with [that?]"[35] Tolmach said the project was "very far along" at that stage and they were now planning to begin filming in early 2019,[36][37] with the intention that Morbius would be the second film released as part of Sony's shared universe after Venom.[36] He added that Leto was bringing the same "intensity" to the film that he had brought to playing the Joker in Suicide Squad (2016).[38] By November, box office analysts believed that Venom had been successful enough for Sony to move ahead with other films like Morbius,[39] and at the end of that month the studio dated an untitled Marvel film that was believed to be Morbius for a July 10, 2020, release.[40] Adria Arjona entered negotiations to portray the film's female lead, Martine Bancroft, in December;[15] her involvement was confirmed a month later when Sony pushed the release date to July 31,[16] and Matt Smith also joined the cast in an undisclosed role.[41][42] Art Marcum and Matt Holloway made uncredited contributions to the film's script.[43][44]

Filming

Principal photography began during the last week of February 2019 in London,[45][46] under the working title Plasma.[47] Oliver Wood served as cinematographer for the film.[48] With the start of filming, Jared Harris and Tyrese Gibson joined the cast as Morbius's mentor and an FBI agent hunting Morbius, respectively.[20][49][50] Smith was reported to be portraying the villainous Loxias Crown / Hunger,[20] though he was later revealed to be playing an original character named Milo who is similar to Loxias Crown.[12] Harris was revealed to be portraying Dr. Nicholas, a mentor and father figure to both Michael and Milo.[18] In March, filming took place in Manchester's Northern Quarter, doubling for New York City.[51] A month later, Gibson revealed that he was portraying Simon Stroud, and that Al Madrigal had been cast as his partner, Alberto Rodriguez.[19] At the end of the month, Justin Haythe was believed to have contributed to the film's script.[52] Filming was scheduled to take 12 weeks,[13][45] and Venom producer Amy Pascal said in June that production had "just wrapped" on the project.[53]

Post-production

In September 2019, Sony announced a new agreement with Disney that extended a previous deal to have Marvel Studios and its president Kevin Feige produce a sequel to Far From Home, keeping Spider-Man in Marvel's shared universe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As part of the new agreement, Feige stated that moving forward the MCU's Spider-Man would be able to "cross cinematic universes" and appear in Sony's own shared universe as well.[54] This interaction was said to be "a 'call and answer' between the two franchises as they acknowledge details between the two in what would loosely be described as a shared detailed universe".[55] The film's first trailer, released in January 2020, included a brief appearance by Michael Keaton, reprising his role as Adrian Toomes / Vulture from the co-produced Marvel Studios Spider-Man film Spider-Man: Homecoming.[24][56]

Reshoots for the film began in Los Angeles by early February 2020,[57] and were finished a month later when film productions around the United States were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[58] At the end of March, the film's release date was pushed back to March 19, 2021, due to the pandemic closing theaters around the world.[59] In January 2021, the film was delayed again, first to October 8, 2021, and then to January 21, 2022, when No Time to Die was moved to the October 2021 date.[60] At the end of January, Leto revealed that additional reshoots were taking place in mid-February.[61] The film's release was moved back another week at the end of April 2021, moving to January 28, 2022.[60] At the start of January 2022, the film was delayed to April 1, 2022, due to the box office success of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) which Sony hoped would continue throughout early 2022.[62] Later that month, Corey Johnson was revealed to have a role in the film.[23] In March, visual effects supervisor Matthew E. Butler revealed that motion capture technology had been used for Leto to portray Morbius's vampiric form.[63] Espinosa cited Pokémon as an influence on the portrayal of Morbius's powers, specifically singling out the series's use of light and color to portray the title creatures' attacks and abilities.[64]

Music

By October 2019, Jon Ekstrand was set to compose the score for Morbius after doing the same for Espinosa's previous films.[65]

Marketing

The teaser trailer for the film was released on January 13, 2020.[10] Julia Alexander at The Verge described the premise of the film as presented by the trailer as "ridiculous",[66] while Matt Goldberg of Collider felt it looked "silly" and also noted that the film looked very similar to Venom, which he acknowledged was commercially successful.[67] Scott Mendelson, writing for Forbes, agreed with the comparison to Venom which he felt was a good move by Sony due to the success of their last few Spider-Man films, but cautioned that Leto may not have the same box office draw for general audiences that Tom Hardy gave to Venom.[68] Much of the discussion surrounding the trailer centered on the revelation of Keaton's role and the visual reference to Spider-Man, which led to questions about the film's relationship with the Spider-Man films and the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.[10][69][66][67] A second trailer was released on November 2, 2021, and led to further confusion and speculation about the film's connections to other franchises. Fans and commentators noted that the trailer, in addition to the Venom films, also references Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man films, and the MCU Spider-Man films despite all three franchises being set in different fictional universes.[70][71][72][73] Prior to the film's theatrical release, Espinosa clarified that Morbius is set in the same universe as the SSU Venom films.[7]

In March 2022, Sony started using their TheDailyBugle.net promotional TikTok account, previously used for Spider-Man: No Way Home, to market Morbius; the videos feature Nicque Marina reporting on events relative to the film.[74]

Release

Theatrical

Morbius had its world premiere at the Plaza Carso in Mexico City on March 10, 2022,[75][76] and was released in the United States on April 1, 2022, in IMAX and other premium large formats.[62] It was originally set for release on July 10, 2020,[16][40] before moving three weeks later to July 31.[16] The film was then delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, firstly to March 19, 2021,[59] then to October 8, 2021, and to January 21, 2022, before moving a week later to January 28.[60] It was then delayed again to the April 2022 date.[62] Sony chose not to release the film in Russia due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[77]

Home media

Sony signed deals with Netflix and Disney in April 2021 for the rights to their 2022 to 2026 film slate, following the films' theatrical and home media windows.[78][79] Netflix signed for exclusive "pay 1 window" streaming rights, which is typically an 18 month window and included future Marvel films in Sony's Spider-Man Universe.[78] Disney signed for "pay 2 window" rights for the films, which would be streamed on Disney+ and Hulu as well as broadcast on Disney's linear television networks.[79][80]

Reception

Box office

As of April 3, 2022, Morbius has grossed $39.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $44.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $84 million.[6][5]

In the United States and Canada, Morbius was projected to gross around $33 million from 4,200 theaters in its opening weekend, with some industry tracking going as high as $40–50 million.[81] The film earned $17.2 million on its first day, including $5.7 million from Thursday preview screenings. It went on to debut to $39.1 million, finishing first at the box office.[82]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 17% based on 186 reviews with an average rating of 3.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Cursed with uninspired effects, rote performances, and a borderline nonsensical story, this Spidey-adjacent mess is a vein [sic] attempt to make Morbius happen."[83] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 36 out of 100 based on 49 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[84] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it a 62% positive score, with 47% saying they would definitely recommend it.[82]

Reviewing the film for Collider, Emma Kiely felt that the "central problem of Morbius is a lazy and uninspiring script" and added that "no weight or depth is given to any character." She also noted that there is "little humor" in the film and "when it tries to make a tongue-in-cheek joke, it fails miserably."[85] Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail panned the film, saying it "is charmless, incoherent, ugly and so aggressively stupid that it defies any attempt to shove it into the desperate 'guilty pleasure' box."[86] Wendy Ide of The Observer gave the film 1 out of 5 stars, calling it an "incoherent, vampire-themed Marvel offcut."[87] Cathy Brennan of Time Out also gave the film 1 out of 5 stars, saying that "bland action and thin characterisation make Morbius a chore to sit through", and criticized the mid-credits scenes, believing that the film's "attempts" to "court an audience by dangling a potential connection" to the MCU's Spider-Man is "the worst kind of unearned fan service in a film this lacklustre."[88]

The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney said the film "only intermittently matches the intensity of the lead performance" and wrote: "It's just a shame this opening salvo takes itself too seriously to have much fun with the mayhem, despite the potential in Smith's devilish turn for amusing interplay between the antagonists."[89] Carljoe Javier of Rappler said the film suffered from "the safest, most vanilla-flavored decisions" and criticized what she called the outdated plot, though praised Smith's performance.[90] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, saying: "It looks like Morbius might soon cross paths with Spider-Man in one universe or another, but that would be a big step up for him, because his introductory vehicle feels more like a just-average 1990s vampire movie."[91] Matt Donato of IGN, who awarded the film a 5 out of 10, unfavorably compared Leto's solemn performance to Tom Hardy's "campy" performance in the Venom films, writing that Leto "[takes] everything deathly serious to an ultimate detriment," but praised Smith's performance for providing a "colorfulness the film desperately needs."[92]

Among the film's positive reviews, Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B grade, saying that Leto "hits the right notes of fear and longing in a surprisingly restrained performance",[93] while Stephanie Zacharek of Time felt that Leto's performance has a "quietly vibrating vulnerability".[94] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle awarded the film a 3 out of 4 and called the film "briskly riveting" and a "perfect antidote to bloated The Batman".[95] Chris Bumbray of JoBlo.com gave the film a 6 out of 10 and called it "a decent enough start for the latest addition to the Sony Spider-Man Universe" while also praising the cinematography and "horror aspects" of the plot.[96]

Future

In January 2021, Leto said there was potential for Morbius to appear alongside the character Blade in a future project, with Mahershala Ali cast in that role for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[97] That December, in discussing the introduction of the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Leto said there was potential for further crossovers with his character in future films.[98] Tom Holland also expressed interest in seeing his version of Spider-Man from the MCU fighting Morbius in the future,[99] while producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal confirmed interest in a potential film starring both Leto and Ali.[100] In March 2022, Leto also expressed interest in a future film featuring Morbius appearing alongside Venom, portrayed by Tom Hardy.[101]

Notes

  1. ^ Toomes is transported from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Sony's Spider-Man Universe due to the events of the film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).[7]
  2. ^ Identified off-screen as the Sinister Six.[7]

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