So. Morbius. There’s 3 possibilities for the future of this franchise:
1: due to the film being a complete financial failure, Sony will not want anything to do with the film, and quietly euthanise the character.
2: they make a sequel that references the memes surrounding the film constantly. Decide for yourself if this is a good or bad thing.
3: they continue with their original plan for the character, and put him into the venom cinematic universe. The bad ending.
Which do you think is the most likely ending.
I think Jared Leto takes himself too seriously for #2 to happen. Though it would be great if they made a silly meme movie and just lied to him about that.
For context: one of the actors in 1967 casino royale was hired under the pretence that it was an actual bond film. It wasn’t.
they need to bring Matt Smith back. if you've seen the movie you know he's one of the best parts because he is so goofy and ridiculous the whole time
let me send you one scene that i think really encapsulates his performance in this turd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBp6exx2kZM
it's good, and it's funny, and i like it. i get it if absolute shit movies are not your thing but we have not gotten an awful capeshit movie this interesting for years. spider-man 3 is the last one i remember
I torrented it yesterday just to see how bad the movie actually was and Matt Smith was the only good part about it.
exactly! he knew he was in a piece of shit and he played his role to perfection. genuinely the shining light in the grim darkness of morbius
Hopefully Jared Leto gets thrown in jail for the rest of his life because of :epstein::corporate-art: reasons.
I know it won't happen, but still
There's also the chance they'll just put Morbius himself in other movies referencing the meme
Think of all the bit part actors Disney has brought back for the MCU
UniversalWarner Brothers hasn't stopped trying to make DC movies even after all their DC expanded universe slop Snyder made. So my bet is that Sony keeps burning money making Spiderman expanded universe movies in a futile attempt to compete with DisneyThat, and they need to put out movies to retain the movie rights to the characters.
Fuck is that really how it works? Wait is that why they make a Fantastic Four movie every decade or so?
That's the exact reason. The 90s one was so bad/cheap they didn't even show it in theaters or release a video.
I suppose, but if the characters aren’t profitable then why try to keep them?
Why would a capitalist voluntarily give up ownership over something for free? Really hard to justify cutting that loss to the board, even if the movies will probably never be profitable
Also I love how the late-capitalist definition of profit is “does it make a billion dollars”, very sustainable mindset.
keeping them in the public view sells comics and toys which are the real money makers
yeah you're right, I kind of just smashed keys to write words without thinking to answer your question. I stand by my statement on the toys though
My favorite thing about DC is how the Green Lantern movie was so bad that they cut him from the Justice League
You're thinking of Warner Brothers, Universal blew their cinematic universe load with the Tom Cruise Mummy
The Snyder stuff was obviously a viable way to obtain Growth, whereas Morbius was terrible financially (at least from the capitalist’s perspective) it’s likely that after seeing how bad it sold, and how much critics disliked it, the ghouls in charge of Sony decided not to touch the property with a barge pole.
Unless the various memes about the film gave the execs hope that a sequel might be profitable.
Also wb not universal
I just don't want Jared Leto to make anymore money. Dude's a fucking creep.
Sorry, but :gulag: for knowing or caring this much about Morbius.
Setting the movie aside for a moment, have there ever been any good Morbius comics?
They can’t make a meme-centric movie where the meme depends on no one watching it
I think one of the major errors committed by many comic book movies, or super-powered films in general is spending way too much time on origin, and trying to explain in great detail the exact powers that characters have. Even when using the method of 'show, don't tell', having this much concern over such things detracts from things that could otherwise be well done - that's my two cents anyway. If they spent less time trying to explain /why/ Morbius, or what Morbius can do, and instead spent more time exploring /who/ Morbius is, and elaborating on relationships and values, then there could probably be a better movie here.
Yeah the "having to kill ur best friend " part really should've had more impact. But it all felt so...flat. idk
Maybe sidestepping the question but my answer is that you don't. Also I'm not into cape shit, never read any of these comics or anything, so I could just be wrong about what I'm saying. You can't take a minor character and give them a full feature length movie when the source material doesn't really develop them at all. You either have to get really radical and take the original work as an inspiration instead of a literal thing to recreate, but that defeats the whole goal the studio has. They want to make an MCU style set of properties out of what they have the rights to. While the MCU isn't completely faithful to the comics, it's more like taking the good stories that are there and cobbling it together into a good overall narrative. Sony has rights to such a narrow sliver of the IP that they can't take only the best and synthesize a good story out of that. Sony can't make a comic book universe out of existing IP and make it good since they don't own enough IP to filter out the mostly garbage content
You can tell they ran out of ideas when they left Tom Hardy with a mountain of cocaine and Leathal Protector comics and expected a coherent story to be the result.
Edit: I'm talking about Venom 2.
I feel like Sony were probably trying to replicate Blade with Morbius, so yeah.
Jared Leto is going to say "It's Morbing Time!" a year after it stopped being funny in the trailer for Morbius 2
