It's Dr. Michael Morbius, at your service.
Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for Morbius, the upcoming Spider-Man Universe film starring Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, better known to Marvel Comics fans as Morbius, the Living Vampire.
The two-minute, fifty-second trailer opens with a helicopter carrying Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist suffering from a rare blood disease, to a remote island. As Dr. Morbius slowly exits the helicopter using a cane for support, a soldier asks him, "Do you need a doctor?"
"I am a doctor," Morbius replies.
Flashing back to Morbius' struggles as a child and later helping others as a doctor, we hear his voiceover say, "I should have died, years ago. People all over the world have my disease."
We then seeing him accepting some sort of honor at a formal affair, with another voiceover. "To find a cure, we have to push the boundaries, take the risks."
Back on the island, we see Dr. Morbius deliberately slice the palm of his hand with a machete and hold it up to a strange device positioned directly outside a cave. "If you're gonna run, do it now," he remarks ominously.
We then see a large colony of bats suddenly swarm out of the cave, chasing the group of soldiers back to the helipcopter while Dr. Morbius screams at the cave's mouth.
Next, we hear a slow remix of "People Are Strange" by The Doors, and hear a voiceover from FBI Agent Simon Stroud (Tyrese Gibson) saying, "Dr. Michael Morbius, you've been missing for two months. Then you were found on a container ship that washed up off of Long Island..." After some fleeting images of armed men aboard the container ship being attacked by an unknown assailant, Agent Stroud continues, "...What did you do to yourself, Doctor?"
"I wish I knew," replies Dr. Morbius.
We then see Horizon Labs along the New York City skyline, as Morbius' fiancée, Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), injects his skeletal frame with something. Morbius says in a voiceover, "I went from dying to being more alive than ever."
"It worked," gasps Martine.
"Not exactly," replies Morbius as he begins displaying various vampiric abilities. "I have increased strength and speed and some form of bat radar."
In a separate scene, as Morbius wonders to himself "What else can I do?", we see him flying in front of a subway car and rocketing through the tunnels.
Another skyline shot at sunset features Oscorp, hinting at the involvement of Norman Osborn. Martine remarks, "There are limits. There has to be."
"There's something inside of me..." remarks Morbius in a voiceover as we see his hands transform into deadly claws and his face distort into a fanged creature while inside a refrigerated room storing blood. "...It wants to hunt and consume blood."
In a separate scene, Martine comes across Morbius, now with his face resembling his vampiric form in Marvel comics.
Morbius' mentor (Jared Harris) asks him, "Can you control it?" while Morbius replies, "I don't know."
As bodies start to pile up, we see a Daily Bugle newspaper headline read DR. MICHAEL MORBIUS APPREHENDED FOR "VAMPIRE MURDER". We hear Agent Stroud's voiceover say, "Half the city wants to kill you..."
At a crime scene, fellow FBI Agent Alberto Rodriguez remarks, "We haven't had anything this good since that thing in San Francisco."
"...The other half wants to control you," continues Stroud as we see a fleeting glimpse of Loxias Crown (Matt Smith), Morbius' friend who suffers from the same rare blood disease.
This is followed by a quick appearance by Adrian Toomes/The Vulture (Michael Keaton), whom we last saw in the 2017 Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Spider-Man: Homecoming. "Hey, uh, Dr. Mike?" begins Adrian. "You and I should stay in touch."
In the next scene, we see Morbius the Living Vampire fighting some armed goons while Morbius' voiceover states, "I'd do anything to save a life, but I don't know what I'm capable of."
Next, in a faceoff between Stroud and Morbius, Stroud tells the Living Vampire, "You save lives, you don't take 'em."
Then we hear Jared Harris' character say, "Are you here to heal the world...or to destroy it?"
After seeing Morbius being feral and surrounded by another large colony of bats, we go to the final scene in the trailer, where a hooded Dr. Morbius swiftly grabs the arm of someone attacking him with a knife. He punches the attacker in the throat, who whimpers on the ground and asks, "Who the hell are you, man?"
Dr. Morbius leans menacing over the attacker and says, "I...am...Venom" while baring his fangs and roaring. The attacker is shocked by the transformation until Dr. Morbius reassuringly pats him on the shoulder and says, "I'm just kidding, it's Dr. Michael Morbius, at your service."
If you'd like to check out the new trailer for Morbius, you can view it below thanks to the official Sony Pictures Entertainment account on YouTube...
Morbius is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on January 28, 2022.
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