Movies - Morbius : Discover the final trailer

By Mulder, 28 february 2022

Morbius is an upcoming American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is intended to be the third film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe. Directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, it stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius alongside Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. In the film, Morbius becomes a 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.

Principal photography began during the last week of February 2019 in London, under the working title Plasma. Oliver Wood served as cinematographer for the film. With the start of filming, Jared Harris and Tyrese Gibson joined the cast as Morbius's mentor and an FBI agent hunting Morbius, respectively. Smith was revealed to be portraying the villainous Loxias Crown. In March, filming took place in Manchester's Northern Quarter, doubling for New York City. A month later, Gibson revealed that he was portraying Simon Stroud, and that Al Madrigal had been cast as his partner, Alberto Rodriguez. At the end of the month, Justin Haythe was believed to have contributed to the film's script. Filming was scheduled to take 12 weeks and Venom producer Amy Pascal said in June that production had "just wrapped" on the project. Filming was confirmed to have been completed by June 2019.

Morbius is scheduled to be released in the United States on April 1, 2022, delayed from an initial July 2020 date primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Synopsis :
Severely afflicted with a rare blood disease, and determined to save all victims of this pathology, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. But what seems at first glance to be a success soon turns out to be a remedy potentially more serious than the disease...

Morbius
Directed by Daniel Espinosa
Written by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
Based on Marvel Comics
Produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Lucas Foster
Starring Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson
Cinematography : Oliver Wood
Edited by Pietro Scalia
Music by Jon Ekstrand
Production companies : Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Arad Productions, Matt Tolmach Productions
Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date : April 1, 2022
Running time : 108 minutes