New Morbius Set Photos Reveal First Look at Jared Leto

March 27, 2019

As production continues for Morbius, new photos from the set of Sony’s upcoming film have arrived online through Twitter (via Comic Book Movie). Featuring our first look at Jared Leto as Michael Morbius and Matt Smith as Loxias Crown, you can check out the full photos below.

The film will also star Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft, Jareb Harris (The Crown) as Morbius’ mentor, and Tyrese Gibson (Fast and the Furious) as a FBI Agent.

Morbius is Sony’s adaptation of the Marvel anti-hero Morbius the Living Vampire. The film will be directed by Daniel Espinosa (Life, Safe House) from a script by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama (Netflix’s Lost in Space), based on the Marvel Comics character created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane who first appeared in 1971’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #101.

Originally Dr. Michael Morbius, the scientist character tried to cure his rare blood disease only to become afflicted with a form of vampirism that gave him superior strength, fangs and a taste for the red stuff. The character fought Spider-Man several times, though eventually earned several of his own books where he had a more heroic arc. He has an ongoing feud with the character Blade the Vampire Hunter in the comics. The character previously appeared on TV in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Ultimate Spider-Man Vs The Sinister Six, and was originally earmarked to make his film debut in Blade until his cameo was deleted and plans to make him the villain in Blade II scrapped.

Arad and Tolmach will produce the film with Lucas Foster, with Sony executive Palak Patel overseeing for the studio. This is one of several Spider-Man spin-off projects in development at Sony, including the recently announced Silk movie, as well as Nightwatch, Black Cat, and Silver Sable.

Morbius is slated to hit theaters on July 31, 2020.

His outfit is definitely from the 2013 run of Morbius. #Morbius pic.twitter.com/4bqGbHWbW8

— Morbius (@DrLetoMorbius) March 26, 2019

That was a fun afternoon/evening taking photos around the set of Spider-Man spin-off #morbius in Manchester. Got a decent shot of Matt Smith too. pic.twitter.com/xeSPvMGKuY

— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 26, 2019