MORBIUS Star Jared Leto Teases What Fans Can Expect From His First Marvel Movie; Hints At Script Issues

MORBIUS Star Jared Leto Teases What Fans Can Expect From His First Marvel Movie; Hints At Script Issues

Morbius star Jared Leto talks candidly about joining the Marvel Universe, but hints at possible issues by noting that with a film like this one, "you don’t really start with a gem of a script."

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By Nighthawk01 - Jan 28, 2021 03:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Morbius

Jared Leto has been talking a lot about Morbius in recent interviews, and while the film was originally scheduled for 2020, it now won't arrive in theaters until 2022 (a surprise considering it's finished). 

Comic book fans have already lowered their expectations for the SPUMC release, especially after Venom took what many felt was one liberty too many with the source material. However, it seems even Leto is attempting to temper expectations for Morbius, a film he's excited about, but perhaps not 100% sold on.

"It’s a pressure cooker," Leto told Variety after being asked what the experience of making a Marvel film is like. "You have a clock ticking. They’re expensive films. And so, all of the decisions and the time to make those decision are a little bit more heated and so it can be a little more stressful. I think it’s more common with these big movies, you don’t really start with a gem of a script."

"You start with a hope and a dream and an idea of something," he continued. "And you all try to work as hard as you can, in this given amount of time, to make it as good as it can be."

Reading between the lines here, it sounds like Leto is acknowledging some story issues with Morbius, and essentially saying that everyone involved worked as hard as possible to elevate the material. It's possible that isn't what he meant, but these comments are definitely...noteworthy. 

Leto was, however, a little more positive in an interview with Deadline. "I think it's going to be kind of like the perfect, hopefully on the end of COVID, Post-COVID, film for people to enjoy, 'Let's just go to the theater, have some fun, and enjoy a big Hollywood movie."

"Talk about a fun movie. I loved it," Leto added. "You go from being like this frail person whose at the end of his life to being this incredibly vibrant, healthy person. And then of course things start to change, and there's a price to be paid. So that's a lot of fun and there were like these three stages that we go to play with, so I got to wrap up some of what I love to do in one of these huge Marvel characters in this Marvel-Sony movie that had never been on screen before."

Alas, it's going to be a long time before we get to watch Morbius and make a decision for ourselves! 

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MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 1/28/2021, 3:21 AM
Gonna be Venomish. Not good.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 1/28/2021, 5:41 AM
@MarvelousMarty - Venom succeeded in selling the character & actor which is all Sony is aiming for, so if Morbius does the same then that's a good thing. Marvel does the same thing except their films come out better. Solo films are nothing but filler until the giant ensemble film comes out in 2 - 3 years.
Kurban
Kurban - 1/28/2021, 6:00 AM
@mastakilla39 - Solo films can be used as gateways into specific characters by focusing on them and what makes them who they are. The problem with Sony's films is that they only ever get one side of that character. Venom is nothing without Spider-Man as its impetus. To betray that is to fundamentally betray the character.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 1/28/2021, 3:21 AM
Is Morbius really now scheduled to come out after Spider-man: Home for the Holidays? That seems so weird.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 1/28/2021, 5:51 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - Yeah we get Venom 2 & Spiderman this year then Morbius and Into the Spiderverse 2 next year. We're supposed to be getting 2 - 4 spider-man properties each year. I think Silk the live action tv show is supposed to come out too. Then there were rumors of a live action tv spin off of Spider Man Noir and 2099 too but don't know if that's legit.
dracula
dracula - 1/28/2021, 3:24 AM
“You don’t really start with a gem of a script."
Goldboink
Goldboink - 1/28/2021, 12:36 PM
@dracula -
My thoughts exactly. Shitshow on the horizon. I love Morbius, bought his first appearance off the shelf when it came out and followed him until I started getting into other things besides comics. Hoping it's good but fearful it will be three wipes and a shower bad.
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/28/2021, 3:34 AM
Interesting how he just told us this movie is bullshit. Careful not to Trank yourself there, Jared.
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/28/2021, 3:42 AM
@Skellfull - Are you alright?
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/28/2021, 3:35 AM
"Post-COVID" lol
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/28/2021, 3:47 AM
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/28/2021, 4:00 AM
@InfinitePunches - We need to start protesting UN buildings demanding a full global lockdown for three months with full pay for everyone from the IMF or your words will indeed be proven very true.

But I honestly don't think we're sick enough of Covid and all the endless lockdowns and restrictions yet.

We'll get there. As a people. As a species. In a few years r so, when everything is still exactly the same, we'll be like "What the fvck world governments?!"
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/28/2021, 4:12 AM
@GwenLantern - I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with your whole idea of taking away more civil rights and just printing more money, but I like your can-do attitude.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/28/2021, 5:37 AM
@InfinitePunches - Well, it's either one single, internationally coordinated lockdown or many, many, many more for the rest of all of our lives and longer.

@Skellfull - And that kind of a response just proves that we are not yet ready to say "Enough!" to Covid or to the endless cycle of quarantining human lives.

In a few years, you'll see, as InfinitePunches does, that there will be no Post-Covid. That this kind of a restricted life-style is forever.

And you will demand that something be done once and all.

Like it should've been done early last year.

We would have been out of it by now and at a much lesser cost.
Wouldn't that have been nice? All those deaths prevented. Everybody back in business. All those Marvel movies we would have watched together at the cinema.

I would have found you at a showing of 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' and said "Hey, Skellfull! Isn't this great? You know in an alternate reality, the world was still plagued by Covid and even Black Widow hadn't even come out yet! Did you know that?"

And you would have replied "You're a [frick]ing dipshit."
Franshu
Franshu - 1/28/2021, 5:43 AM
@GwenLantern - From a country that did go into full lockdown early and has poroven disastrous in every aspect (from health to economics) I just can't stress how wrong you are. Can't even begin to.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/28/2021, 5:48 AM
@Franshu - Really? Which country is that?

Also that's not full, global lockdown, is it? There is no way that can't work. If we all lock down FULLY (and I'll bet if you look into it, even your country didn't lock down fully) then all those who have Covid will either die or get better. Ergo: no more Covid. World back to normal.
Origame
Origame - 1/28/2021, 8:14 AM
@GwenLantern - well that depends what you're referring to by fully. Because all that money you seem to think the government will just give us, we still need to go out and get food. The only alternative there is if everyone gets all their groceries delivered but guess what? Those delivery drivers need to go out.

See the flaws in your argument?
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/28/2021, 9:40 AM
@Origame - Then that would be essential. But not everything is.
I'd say (in no particular order):
1. Food Manufacturers.
2. Food Distribution.
3&4. Those caring for the dying and the dead.
5. Public transport (only for the above workers).
6. Policing.

Can't think of anyone else who would be essential, but you have to stick to only those that we absolutely need. Skeleton Crew.
No half measures.

If you lock a house up to stop an invasion of rabid vampire cats (go with me here) but you leave a window open, then you're gonna be overrun.
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/28/2021, 2:59 PM
@GwenLantern - And what if people need to leave their homes to attend funerals? Or birthdays? Or because they want to exercise their inalienable right to freedom of movement?

You can't make everyone agree to go along with your plan. The only way authoritarianism can work is if you throw dissenters in the gulag. Historically, trading freedom for safety is a very dangerous habit.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/29/2021, 1:43 AM
@InfinitePunches -

"what if people need to leave their homes to attend funerals? Or birthdays?"

They don't get to. There is a plague. They don't really "need" to.

See this is the problem with our current generations. We're all spoilt children who can't understand that we just can't do everything we want to right now because of survival.

I know it's sad not been able to go to a funeral. But they didn't have funerals in the Great Plague of London. They left bodies on the street outside their houses to be picked up like garbage and collectively burnt.
When the pandemic began, Italy's hospitals were overrun and they were shipping bodies of by the truckload. New York had mass graves. People were not allowed to visit the dying.

And birthdays? Um, yeah no. Not really an emergency situation. Wish yourself happy birthday, go on social media, phone, text and zoom and then put on your favorite movie and eat a cake with candles in it. Done. No problem.
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 1/29/2021, 2:10 AM
@GwenLantern - Your vision for mankind's future is far worse than any death I can imagine. People get to choose their own risks. That's their right. If you want to live in a bubble, that's your right.

Not everything you've been told is true. Fewer people died worldwide in July 2020 than July 2018. There are a lot of wealthy and powerful people profiting off of what's been going on recently, and it's in their best interest to mislead you.

Making choices out of fear can lead people to do unwise things. Things never went back to normal after we ratified the Patriot Act. Those who gain power never relinquish it willingly.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 1/29/2021, 6:48 AM
@InfinitePunches - Okay, nobody else is listening, probably, at this point, so I'll level with you. You are right when you say that " There are a lot of wealthy and powerful people... and it's in their best interest to mislead you".

If we did have a full global lockdown, the effects on the economy will be dire. We will recover. Eventually.

But those who would never recover? They are the 1%. The ones at the top. Those who have the most money, the most power, the most influence.

A full global lockdown would be a game changer with regards to world influence. It would level the playing field. That means that the ones at the top would sink to a level of having the same money, power and influence as a lot of people who used to be just below them.
Eventually somebody else would rise to the top. But it wouldn't necessarily be the same people who were there before. In fact that would be quite unlikely.

So if you were one of those lucky people with more money, power and influence than 99% of humanity and a full global lockdown would strip you status at the very top of the food chain, what would you be doing with all that money, power and influence?

You would be using it to influence world leaders to do everything BUT coordinating a full global lockdown, you would be using military methods of internet manipulation using companies like Cambridge Analytica to convince the people to be oppose to lockdown restrictions, playing on their fears of 1984-style fascism, feeding people with false information about statistics, making them believe that the numbers are made up, that face masks are worse for you that lockdowns GIVE you the virus and that the virus isn't that harmful if it even exists.
You would put all your efforts and money into developing a vaccine and you would have the very same people who were anti-lockdown be against those and ridicule those who are anti-vaccine.

I wonder... when you say "People get to choose their own risks", does that include anti-vaxxers? What are your thoughts about that?

Ahhh, if anybody is listening, this'll probably be deleted, because I mentioned the vaccine in a suspicious way.
RokoVII
RokoVII - 1/28/2021, 3:46 AM
That sounds reassuring 😑
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 1/28/2021, 4:07 AM
I know that’s the reality of a lot of blockbuster filmmaking, but I can’t help but feel that if you’re trying to turn a character as obscure as Morbius into a franchise then you really ought to wait until you actually do have a great script before putting it on the calendar.
Shroombeast
Shroombeast - 1/28/2021, 4:09 AM
I expect garbage. I wish Sony didn't have these characters in their greasy claws.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/28/2021, 4:23 AM
Not expecting much but the trailer was well done
jj2112
jj2112 - 1/28/2021, 5:27 AM
Ugh. Keep him away from Tron please.
Franshu
Franshu - 1/28/2021, 5:38 AM
"I think it’s more common with these big movies, you don’t really start with a gem of a script."

He's nto wrong in general for this blockbuster movies though. Most of them don't have a 100% finished script by the time they start shooting.
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