Multiple outlets are reporting that Jared Leto has been cast in the title role for ‘Morbius,’ the next film in Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff universe, which will focus on anti-hero Morbius the Living Vampire.
Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane, Morbius is the alter-ego of Dr. Michael Morbius, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist whose attempts to cure himself of a deadly blood disease using serum derived from bats, resulted in turning himself into a vampiric creature.
Moribus first appeared as an antagonist in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ #101, but has since gone on to become a heroic, tragically flawed protagonist in his own series and other titles.
Swedish filmmaker Daniel Espinosa (‘Snabba Cash,’ ‘Safe House,’ ‘Life’) is attached to direct the project from a script by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, the writers behind the Netflix revival of ‘Lost in Space.’
The super talented BossLogic has produced the awesome piece below, imagining Leto as Moribus.
Hearing the news about @JaredLeto as #morbius at first I was like 🤔 then I was excited, let’s see what he brings to the #Marvel world! pic.twitter.com/WcJheMkLvA
— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) June 28, 2018