Morbius trailer: Jared Leto will hunt and consume blood in January

Nearly two years have passed since we first saw a trailer for Sony’s Marvel Comics adaptation Morbius, since the movie was delayed a year and a half due to the pandemic and Sony ended up slotting both Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home ahead of it on the release schedule. But now Morbius is on track for a January 28, 2022 theatrical release and a new trailer has arrived online. It’s all about setting up the vampiric Morbius character and showing off his abilities – and it’s set to the sound of The Doors’ “People Are Strange”. Would that have been the musical choice if the song hadn’t been memorably tied to the classic vampire movie The Lost Boys (watch it HERE)? I’m not so sure.

Directed by Daniel Espinosa from a screenplay written by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, Morbius has the following synopsis:

One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted 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?

Jared Leto plays Morbius and is joined in the cast by Jared Harris as Morbius’ mentor, Tyrese Gibson as “an FBI agent trying to hunt down the living vampire”, Adria Arjona as Morbius’ fiancee Martine Bancroft, and Matt Smith as the villainous Loxias Crown.

The Morbius character was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #101 back in 1971. Sony is able to make movies based on any Marvel characters that originally appeared in Spider-Man comics, which is how we get the Venom films and this one. Despite not being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself, Morbius will be connected to the recent Spider-Man movies through nods to the events of Spider-Man: Far from Home and an appearance by Michael Keaton as his Spider-Man: Homecoming character Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. The Vulture.

Produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster, the film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, some frightening images, and brief strong language.