Morbius (2020) Trailer Review

Morbius (2020) Trailer Review

 So on Monday Sony and Marvel released the first trailer for their upcoming film Morbius, and these are the things I noticed in the trailer.

Dr Morbius is trying to cure his rare blood disease

It seems at the beginning on the film that Dr Michael Morbius is just a doctor, quite desperate to find a cure for a rare blood disease, and this will lead him to becoming the living vampire, but using this motivation allows the audience to feel sympathy for the main character even though in the comics I would see Morbius as more of a villain then hero.

Seems like it is going to be a more violent film

After the success of Joker last year, I think this film is trying to capitalise by making this film darker and focusing on a villain. I mean when your main character is a living vampire and has a thirst for blood it would feel wrong for this film not to go the more dark and violent direction.

Is Matt Smith trying to take down Morbius

This is just a theory, because we see very little of Smith in the trailer but this film doesn't give a clear answer to whether Morbius is the protagonist in the film or whether he is the villain with someone trying to take him down, very little is known about the plot in this movie but I would like to see Matt Smith go against Jared Leto's Morbius.

This film connects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

This is the big news coming from the trailer, I have to be honest nobody expected this in the trailer as Venom was a very standalone film but Morbius will not be like that. So the first mention of the MCU is we see an image of Spider-Man saying Murderer on it, this is a reference to the ending of Spider-Man Far From Home where Spider-Man is accused of killing Mysterio. Then at the end of the trailer we see Morbius meeting Michael Keaton who is reprising his role from Spider Man Homecoming as Adrian Toomes/Vulture. I love Keaton in this role and his appearance confirms that this film fits into the MCU in some way even though I am not expecting Morbius to appear in any MCU film but I would love to see him go up against Mahershala Ali's Blade in a few years time.

Overall

I had very little anticipation for this film but this trailer did a really good job of getting me hyped for the film and has left me asking questions about what is really happening in this film.

Morbius is set to be released on July 31st 2020