'Spider-Man' Spinoff: Morbius the Living Vampire Movie in the Works (Trailer Out)

[Bigbigguy]

Sony’s cinematic universe based on Spider-Man characters just got a little bigger.

The studio is developing Morbius, a feature project centered on Spider-Man antihero Morbius the Living Vampire.

Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, who worked on the recent Power Rangers movie, wrote the script, which was just submitted to the studio after a secret development process.

Morbius was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #101, the first issue not written by Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee.

Morbius is Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who suffered from a rare blood disease and attempted to cure himself to disastrous results. He instead became afflicted with a condition that was a form of vampirism — the thirst for blood, along with fangs and super strength — and fought Spider-Man. Over time, however, he became a slightly heroic figure in his own right.

Details of Sony’s take on the character are not known.

Sony has been furiously developing its stable of Marvel-licensed characters that are mostly based off the heroes and villains that are connected to Spider-Man. However, these new movies will not be connected to Sony’s Tom Holland movies and not connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that is being produced by Marvel Studios.

Sony had no comment.

Sharpless and Sazama previously tackled vampirism with Dracula Untold, Universal’s origin of the most famous vampire that starred Luke Evans. They also count The Last Witch Hunter and Gods of Egypt among their credits.

The duo also are showrunning and writing the Lost in Space reboot for Netflix that is to debut next year.

Sony need to chill

 

[Big Blue]

Why?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Sharpless and Sazama previously tackled vampirism with Dracula Untold, Universal’s origin of the most famous vampire that starred Luke Evans. They also count The Last Witch Hunter and Gods of Egypt among their credits.

Well at least we know it’s in good hands

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Why?

You wasn't looking towards a Morbius stand alone film breh? Shocking.

 

[Jx2]

Well at least we know it’s in good hands

Sony out here like "Who wants to make a Spider-Man movie thing?"

 

[ORDER_66]

Why tho?!?! if blade is not attached to the crossover will it work???

 

[kingdarius]

Well at least we know it’s in good hands

Dracula untold and the last witch hunter are decent time killing flicks but that last one ....I would've actually liked to have seen spidey go against him in a flick but they nvr use the more obscure villains from his rogue catalog so fuk it

 

[Brehcepticon]

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Wow!!! Sony shooting they Shots!!!

Can’t tet mad at them for that

Martha

 

[mr x]

 

[KravenMorehead™]

I hope the writers catch sexual harassment scandals halfway through principal photography

 

[ORDER_66]

Man Sony is doing everything in their power NOT to give the rights back to marvel...

 

[parallax]

What is the point of this? Unless this starts armor, i don't want to see a brooding morbius for 120 minutes

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I was reading some of those old marvel magazines that feature Morbius stand alone stories earlier this year and I can see this working

 

[R=G]

Funny. Greed is a bytch.