![]() Now that so many of those figures have been re-assembled in the MCU, the usual fan response to a movie as run-of-the-mill as Morbius is that Marvel characters are better off in movies under Kevin Feige’s supervision - and the filmmakers often seem to tacitly agree. Morbius, along with the more popular but still vaguely off-brand Venom movies, is one of the last vestiges of a time when the rights to Marvel properties were scattered among various studios, highly unlikely to be reunited under a single corporate umbrella. This is both fair, in that Morbius is pretty middling, and a shame, in that having some stray Marvel characters set up at another, non-Disney studio is an opportunity to diversify what superhero movies can do. Without Spider-Man, he’s just another misfit monster without enough teeth. Morbius’ switch from villain to leading-role antihero feels like a demotion. Morbius’ box-office take has been solid, but it’s also been overshadowed by some of the most scathing Marvel-related superhero movie reviews since 2015’s Fantastic Four, and by the general ignominy of being part of Sony’s fire sale of Spider-Man-adjacent characters, rather than the ultra-popular MCU. 2022 isn’t like 1998: Today, one of the only remaining sure bets at the box office is a movie starring a Marvel Comics hero. Twenty-four years after Morbius was unceremoniously cut from the first-ever hit movie based on a Marvel superhero, he’s re-emerged in a vastly altered cinematic landscape. (He has no lines and no closeups, so he’s played by Blade director Stephen Norrington.) The studio ultimately flinched on plans to include Morbius in Blade II, due to the rights issues around the character. On a distant rooftop stands a figure clearly intended to be Morbius, the Living Vampire. In an alternate version of this scene that periodically resurfaces in online bootlegs, the movie unveils Blade’s next target. At the end of the 1998 superhero movie Blade, Wesley Snipes’ daywalker turns down a chance to be cured of his vampirism, opting instead to keep his powers for his fight against the fully undead.
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