Published 11:45 IST, January 14th 2020

'Morbius': Who is Jared Leto playing in the upcoming Marvel movie?

'Morbius' is a highly anticipated superhero movie set to release this year. Read on to know more about the character that Jared Leto is playing in the film.

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Jared Leto is making helines with Dr Who actor Matt Smith, as two will be seen in an upcoming Marvel movie under banner of Sony Entertainment. film is titled as Morbius and will be a part of w-official Sony’s Marvel Universe.

Morbius trailer is out w, and fans of Jared Leto are all geared up to see living vampire in Morbius movie. Here is everything you need to kw about Morbius, spin-off character from Spider-Man.

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Who is Jared Leto’s Morbius?

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Jared Leto, who played DC’s Joker, is w all set to be seen as Marvel’s Morbius. Morbius trailer is out, and movie will release on July 31, this year. For unversed, Morbius is a vampire. He holds title of Living Vampire. Morbius me his comic book debut with #101 issue of Amazing Spider-Man, in February 1971.

Initially, a villain to Spider-Man, he went on to become an anti-hero in his own stand-alone comics. He n went on to encounter league of heroes that included GhostRider, Ble, and ors.

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Morbius, a biochemist, and a ble prize winner, in comics, suffers from a rare blood disease. To cure his blood disease, he uses vampire blood, and electroshock rapy and something goes horribly wrong. He turns into a pseudo-vampire, and first living vampire, meaning, he is t de. He has abilities of a vampire, that can make him fly, give him super strength, and make him weak when in contact with bright light.

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w, Sony has released a teaser trailer of film, and it gives us glimpses of Leto’s Morbius. In teaser of film, fans got to see several Spider-Man Easter eggs, and in one scene, Leto walks past by a graffiti of Spider-Man.

Earlier, Sony h anunced a shared universe of its own and planned to collaborate all characters it hold rights to, in a Sony’s Marvel Universe.

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Actor Tyrese Gibson, who will be seen playing role of Simon Stroud, an FBI nt, and a sworn enemy to Morbius, shared official trailer of movie on his social media handle. It has been reported that actor has signed for a three-picture deal, which paves way for a Morbius trilogy.

Fans are speculating that y will get to see character of Ble, in film, as half-vampire is rey to make an appearance in films again. film will also be connected to Spider-Man franchise, as actor Micheal Keaton, who was seen as le antagonist Vulture, in Spider-Man: Homecoming will be seen reprising his role in Morbius. Fans are highly anticipating release of film, and are speculating that this may be a new beginning of a ‘darker’ version of Avengers. 

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11:45 IST, January 14th 2020