Jared Leto is officially sinking his tooth into a further comic guide character.
Leaving the DC Extended Universe at the rear of, the Oscar-successful star normally takes another transform for the sinister in Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Verse as enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. The “Morbius” trailer arrived Tuesday from Sony Pictures Enjoyment.
“Meet the amazing Dr. Michael Morbius and his effective alter-moi, straight from the 50th anniversary of his Marvel comic debut to his first ever significant display overall look,” Leto wrote Monday in advance of the trailer’s release.
Leto, who famously performed the Joker in Warner Bros.’ 2016 “Suicide Squad,” now plays a medical doctor dangerously unwell with a blood ailment in Sony’s Spider-Male universe.
He’s established to preserve others from his destiny and takes a batty gamble to do so. Following heading missing for two months, he turns up on a container ship washed up off Extensive Island. Morbius — a “Living Vampire” in the comics — gains the qualities of “increased perception and speed, some kind of bat radar” and … he can fly. Choose that, Batman.
“I went from dying to remaining more alive than ever,” Morbius claims, adding, “There’s anything inside of of me. I love to hunt … and take in blood.”
Then, of study course, as Tyrese Gibson’s FBI agent points out in the trailer, fifty percent the town would like to destroy him though the other 50 % wants to manage him. The spooky, horror-laden trailer also will make main references to the studios’ latest workforce-up, “Venom: Enable There Be Carnage,” starring Tom Hardy, or as yet another investigator places it: “that point in San Francisco.”
Leto’s Morbius finishes the trailer with a extra direct reference, nevertheless.
The trailer also contains a Spider-Person mural with “Murderer” scrawled on it and an visual appeal by Michael Keaton reprising his Vulture role from “Spider-Guy: Homecoming.”
“Morbius,” because of in theaters in January, is directed by Daniel Espinosa and created by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. In addition to Leto and Gibson, it stars Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris and Al Madrigal.