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.

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • wire [it/its]
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      3 years ago

      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

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        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.