Here’s Jared Leto as Morbius The Living Vampire

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Sony's Marvel Comics adaptation MORBIUS (a.k.a. MORBIUS THE LIVING VAMPIRE) is rounding up one killer cast lead by Jared Leto plays the title character. Other actors attached include Adria Arjona as Morbius's fiancee Martine Bancroft, Jared Harris as Morbius's mentor, Tyrese  Gibson's as "an FBI agent trying to hunt down the living vampire," and former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is playing the film's villain, a man named Loxias Crown.

And today we have your first full look at Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius the title character. This new first and full look comes to us via the actor's Instagram page and you can check out the quick video attached below.

MORBIUS was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #101 in 1971. He is Dr. Michael Morbius

a scientist who suffered from a rare blood disease and attempted to cure himself to disastrous results. Instead of being cured, he became afflicted with a condition that was a form of vampirism — the thirst for blood, along with fangs and super strength.

Daniel Espinosa is directing MORBIUS from a screenplay by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama. Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster are producing the film, with Palak Patel overseeing the project for the studio. Currently filming in London, MORBIUS will be unleashed on July 31, 2020.