‘Morbius’ Star Jared Leto Talks Potential Spider-Man Face-Off
With the long-delayed film finally reaching audiences in just a few weeks, Morbius star Jared Leto talks Spider-Man, and potentially works with the iconic Marvel hero.
There have been few films throughout the past two years of the pandemic that have suffered as much as Morbius.
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The Sony film on the iconic Marvel character has been delayed multiple times, with its theatrical debut finally just two weeks away.
Telling the story of the beloved Spider-Man villain, Morbius explores the eponymous character as he goes from a well-intentioned doctor seeking a cure to a horrid disease, to a monstrous humanoid who must feast on human blood to sustain himself.
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The character is one of Spider-Man’s many villains but has endeared himself to fans as a sort of anti-hero, due to his desire to help, and the unintentional deterioration of him at the hands of his pursuit of a cure.
The film is Sony’s second big installment of its in-development film universe of Spider-Man characters following Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There be Carnage; with both developing a Marvel Universe around the heroes vast rogues gallery.
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With the two characters being irreplaceably connected to Spider-Man in the source material, it seems like only a matter of time until the friendly neighborhood hero makes an appearance in a Sony film; the question being, which Spider-man could it be? And when could he finally appear?
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Morbius star Jared Leto talked about Spider-Man, and what he would want out of an eventual meeting of hero and villain.
Jared Leto thinks Morbius would make a “dynamic duo” with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man. #CriticsChoice pic.twitter.com/JYGAKhLyo4
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) March 13, 2022
When asked specifically about whether or not fans will see Morbius face off against the iconic her, Leto stated, “Well… I would love to get in the ring with spider-Man. I think Tom Holland is amazing, and we’d make quiet a dynamic duo I guess,”
The answer seems to verify a few things, most notably being that Morbius- and the various sony Spider-Verse characters- will be operating under the assumption that Tom Holland is the Spider-Man of that film universe.
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He also didn’t refer to the hero in an antagonistic way, as he seemed to speak on the two working together rather than fighting one another; which should only add to Sony’s development of Morbius as an anti-hero, rather than being a traditional villain.
