Sony and Marvel team up once again to give another Spider-Man villain its own film. First came the wildly popular but critically bashed VENOM, now we get the trailer for this summer’s MORBIUS featuring Jared Leto as its lead character. The film suggests being tied to the MCU in a heavy-handed way with its final frames and the cameo therewithin. Good? Bad? A horror superhero, finally? What do you think?
One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease. Coming to theaters July 31, 2020.
Directed By:
Daniel Espinosa
Story by:
Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless
Screenplay by:
Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway
Based on the Marvel Comics
Produced by:
Matt Tolmach
Avi Arad
Lucas Foster
Executive Producers:
Louise Rosner
Cast:
Jared Leto
Matt Smith
Adria Arjona
Jared Harris
Al Madrigal
with Tyrese Gibson
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
