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MORBIUS Hits Theaters On April 1st – Take A Bite Out Of These New Behind-The-Scenes Videos
One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?
In his new film Morbius, based on the Marvel antihero, Leto brings all of these together for his performance as Dr. Michael Morbius, a brilliant doctor with a rare and fatal blood disease, determined to find the cure. Morbius’s genius finds a way not only to cure the illness but to give him unimaginable strength and powers, but at a terrible cost: an uncontrollable thirst for human blood.
“I played Dr. Michael Morbius from his most frail, to his most powerful, to his most monstrous,” Leto continues. “There’s a lot of range in there, so that was really fun to tackle. Not only does the movie have action, stunts, and fighting, but the role itself was taxing. Whenever he is fighting the affliction, he is caught in a crossroads between different parts of the character. It’s like a withdrawal process, a full body experience.”
Columbia Pictures presents in association with MARVEL, an Avi Arad / Matt Tolmach production, Morbius. Starring Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster. Screen Story and Screenplay by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless. Based on the MARVEL Comics. Executive Producers are Louise Rosner and Emma Ludbrook. Director of Photography is Oliver Wood. Production Designer is Stefania Cella. Editor is Pietro Scalia, ACE. Costume Designer is Cindy Evans.
Music by Jon Ekstrand. MORBIUS marks his seventh project with director Daniel Espinosa, having previously composed music for his films Life, Babylonsjukan, Outside Love, Snabba Cash, and Child 44, and the Danish short film The Boxer, which was his first work as a composer. His work will be heard in the upcoming films All the Old Knives, starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton, and Lasse Hallström’s Hilma, starring Lena Olin..
Morbius has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for intense sequences of violence, some frightening images and brief strong language. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on April 1, 2022.
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