Morbius release date in the UK, cast, age rating, and how does it relate to Spider-Man: No Way Home?
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Morbius is the latest film in the Sony universe that so far includes Spider-Man and Venom.
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Hide AdMorbius follows the story of a scientist suffering from a rare blood disease.
Attempting to cure himself, Dr Michael Morbius develops a form of transgenic vampirism that comes with superhuman abilities and a thirst for blood.
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What is the Morbius age rating?
The Morbius age rating has not yet been confirmed, with an expected release a couple of weeks ahead of the release date.
Judging from other similar Sony releases, such as Venom: Let There Be Carnage, we might be able to expect that Morbius will be rated 15.
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Hide AdThe film is certainly darker than the Spider-Man films from Sony, for example, which will likely give it a higher age rating than Spider-Man: No Way Home.
When is the UK release date for Morbius?
Originally supposed to release in July 2020, various conflicts have meant that Morbius has now been pushed back six times.
Now, the film will premiere in cinemas on April 1, as opposed to January 28 as most recently planned.
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Hide AdThis latest delay is due to global surges in positive Covid cases due to the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
Who is in the Morbius cast?
Jared Leto plays the lead role of Dr Michael Morbius, the man who contracts a dangerous form of vampirism while in search of a cure for a blood disease.
Leto is joined by a range of high-profile actors, including Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, Pacific Rim: Uprising’s Ardia Arjona, Carnival Row’s Jared Harris, and F9’s Tyrese Gibson.
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Hide AdMicheal Keaton will also reprise his role as the Vulture, having first appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Is Morbius a Marvel film?
This crossover from Michael Keaton has sparked many to wonder how exactly Morbius fits into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe which Spider-Man: Homecoming hails from.
Warning: spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home will be below.
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Hide AdWe saw characters from several different Spider-Man universes converge in Spider-Man: No Way Home, fully blending the cinematic worlds of Sony and Marvel for the first time.
The post-credits scene for the film also revealed that a drop of Venom’s sticky matter stayed behind when Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock was pulled back to his original universe.
That heavily implies that Sony’s Venom still has a role to play in the MCU.
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Hide AdHowever, Morbius is still a Sony film, despite being based on Marvel comics.
It’s unclear just yet how closely it will relate to other films in the Marvel or Sony cinematic universes.
How does the film relate to Spider-Man: No Way Home and is Andrew Garfield in Morbius?
Nonetheless, there are still several connections between Morbius and other films from both Sony and Marvel, aside from Keaton’s appearance.
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Hide AdIn one shot in the trailer, we can see graffiti of Spider-Man with ‘murderer’ written on it on the wall, so we know the web-slinging superhero exists in this universe.
Fans have debated which version of Spider-Man this could be, with many suspecting it could mark the return of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man, although this is not confirmed.
Other Spidey-related Easter eggs include a reference to the Daily Bugle, seen most often in Tobey Maguire’s trilogy, and an Oscorp Tower, as teased at the end of Andrew Garfield’s second film.
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Hide AdOn top of this, the scientists reference an incident in San Francisco, which surely refers to the damage that Eddie Brock and Venom inflicted in their two films so far.
There are enough references to tie Morbius to any one of these three universes, but only time will tell how they are actually connected.
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