While Kevin Feige has his hands full fighting for James Gunn’s script in the fallout of the
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 debacle, it appears he’ll be making time to sit down with Equalizer, Magnificent Seven and Training Day director Antoine Fuqua to discuss working together on a new project – possibly Morbius.
Back in November it was reported that Sony had
set up the project about The Living Vampire, and were using a script from Dracula Untold and Lost in Space writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless with
Jared Leto leading the film. A few years back Morbius was on our list of Spider-Man characters who
should get their own movies.
This is not the first time Fuqua’s name has been linked to a movie about The Living Vampire. Back in April
JoBlo spoke to the director at CinemaCon following the news that Sony had approached him about a Morbius film. He said,
“As a kid I grew up with comic books. They talked to me about Black Panther years ago, way back in the day. There’s some reason they came up and they talked to me about at Sony, a Marvel character, Morbius [The Living Vampire]…that kinda came up. I don’t know, I have a thirteen-year-old son so I’m watching more of that again and it’s exciting to do that. I’d love to create a new one. Y’know, something that’s closer to what I get excited about.
Today HeyUGuys’ Stefan Pape spoke to Fuqua about his feelings about a comic book movie. He said,
“I’ve been approached about it…I’ll probably take some meetings soon, talk to those guys about it[…]For me it has to be the right one, in the right situation because there’s so much visual effects going on and – ‘Where’s the director in it all?’ I need to understand it because it’s like management…they have a machine, they’ve got people, there’s the design, the whole thing is sketched out[…]Is the director doing that? Or is it a hundred other people?
Then he confirmed that a further meeting was coming up,
“Sony asked me to do Morbius. I’m going to have a meeting with Kevin [Feige] soon…Just talking.”
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