"Morbius" Release Date Pushed Back Three Months

On Monday, Sony Pictures pushed back the release date for Jared Leto’s highly-anticipated movie “Morbius” by three months.

Now, the movie is set to debut on April 1, 2022, instead of on Jan. 28.

This is the sixth time for the movie's release to postpone. It was initially scheduled to debut on July 10, 2020, but the Coronavirus pandemic hit.

As the pandemic has raged, “Morbius” has cycled through release dates — at various points it has been set to open on July 31, 2020, then March 19, 2021, then Oct. 8, 2021, and finally moving Jan. 21, 2022, before pushed to the Jan. 28 date.

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

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.

https://youtu.be/oZ6iiRrz1SY

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.