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Morbius

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. Filming was confirmed to have been completed by June 2019.

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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, 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. Leto found the role to be surprisingly challenging due to it being much less character-driven than his prior performances and also much closer to his real-life personality and thus did not require his well-known method acting approach.
Matt Smith as Loxias Crown:
Morbius’s friend who suffers from the same rare blood disease. After previously turning down other superhero film roles, Smith joined the film due to director Daniel Espinosa’s involvement and encouragement from Karen Gillan, who portrays Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and who previously worked with Smith on Doctor Who. Joseph Esson portrays a young Loxias Crown.
Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft: A scientist and Morbius’s fiancée.
Jared Harris as a professor and Morbius’s mentor.
Al Madrigal as Alberto Rodriguez: An FBI agent hunting Morbius.
Tyrese Gibson as Simon Stroud:
An FBI agent hunting Morbius. Gibson noted that the character is white in the comic books, and the producers “made him black” to cast the actor. Stroud has a “hi-tech weapons-grade arm” in the film, and Gibson described him as a superhero.^[14] Gibson signed a three-picture deal when he joined the film.

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. 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. In May 2017, Sony announced plans for a new shared universe featuring Spider-Man-related properties beginning with Venom in October 2018; this was later titled “Sony’s Spider-Man Universe”. 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). That November, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless submitted a script to Sony for a Morbius film, after a “secret development process” at the studio. 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.

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.” He ultimately chose not to take on the project. Other directors that Sony approached about the film included F. Gary Gray, who considered directing the film but ultimately turned down the role and Daniel Espinosa, who previously directed the film Life (2017) for the studio. In May, while on tour in Germany with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto met with Espinosa to talk about the film,^[24] and the pair were both confirmed for the project at the end of June. Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster were producing, 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.

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. 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?]”Tolmach said the project was “very far along” at that stage and they were now planning to begin filming in early 2019, with the intention that Morbius would be the second film released as part of Sony’s shared universe after Venom. He added that Leto was bringing the same “intensity” to the film that he had brought to playing the Joker in Suicide Squad (2016). By November, box office analysts believed that Venom had been successful enough for Sony to move ahead with other films like Morbius, 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. Adria Arjona entered negotiations to portray the film’s female lead, Martine Bancroft, in December; her involvement was confirmed a month later when Sony pushed the release date to July 31, and Matt Smith also joined the cast in an undisclosed role. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway made uncredited contributions to the film’s script.

Filming

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.