“Morbius” New Footage Unveiled

New footage from Jared Leto’s highly-anticipated movie “Morbius”, has been unveiled.

The movie features Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, a biochemist who becomes a vampire after attempting to cure himself of a rare blood disease.

The footage focuses on Morbius' journey from a child with a deadly degenerative disease to a renowned scientist willing to do anything to find a cure. Unfortunately, that means exposing himself to a curse that turns him into a blood-thirsty vampire.

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It is the next chapter in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, a cinematic universe connected to Tom Hardy’s Venom movies and possibly the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The symbiote villain, played by Tom Hardy, teased a multiverse crossover in the post-credits scene of “Venom: Let There Be Carnage”.

It will also feature a cameo by Michael Keaton, who played the Vulture in “Spider-Man: Homecoming”.

The movie will also star Adria Arjona, Matt Smith, Tyrese Gibson, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson.

Arjona will play the villain’s fiancee, Martine Bancroft while Smith will portray Loxias Crown, a man with the same blood disease as Morbius, and Harris is slated to play the mentor of Morbius.

Morbius had his first appearance in Marvel comics in the 1971 issue of “The Amazing Spider-Man”.

The villain was brought back in the 1992 series, “Morbius, the Living Vampire”, which produced 32 issues before ending in 1995.

In an interview, Leto talked about his new role, saying: “He is brilliant, he is strong, he has got some unique powers, but his powers seem to be out of his control,”.

“I played Morbius at his most frail and his most monstrous,” he added.

The movie is directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, and produced by “Spider-Man” producer Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster.

It has had a long road to theaters, having been delayed six times before settling on its final release date of April 1.

The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has been the main culprit for delays, with the movie’s many release dates often coinciding with COVID variant flare-ups.

“Morbius” running time is an hour and forty-eight minutes. This makes the movie almost twenty minutes longer than the Venom sequel, but almost an hour shorter than No Way Home, which clocked in at two hours and thirty minutes.