MORBIUS: Jared Leto Teases SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Star Michael Keaton's Return As Adrian Toomes

MORBIUS: Jared Leto Teases SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Star Michael Keaton's Return As Adrian Toomes

Even after Spider-Man: No Way Home, we're still no closer to figuring out what Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes is doing in Morbius, but star Jared Leto has dropped a few intriguing hints in a new interview.

By JoshWilding - Feb 24, 2022 08:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Morbius
Source: The Direct

Sony Pictures (via The Direct) has shared the press notes for Morbius, and Oscar-winner Jared Leto has now opened up on sharing the screen with Michael Keaton. The Spider-Man: Homecoming star will reprise his role as Adrian Toomes, but what that means for this franchise, and potentially the wider Multiverse, is impossible to say right now.

After watching Spider-Man: No Way Home, the only thing we can assume is that The Vulture - who knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man - was inadvertently pulled to another world when Doctor Strange cast his spell in the movie's final act. The other possibility, of course, is that he's a Variant.

Either way, it sounds like Leto had a blast working with The Flash actor. "One of the great things about being part of the larger universe is you get to plant Easter eggs - you get to pull on some other characters to jump in and join your party and surprise people. I couldn’t think of someone I’d rather work with than Michael Keaton - he’s one of my favorites."

Leto also shared his thoughts on being the first actor to breathe life into Michael Morbius on screen. "I was excited about taking on the challenge of putting a character on screen that had never been on screen before. It gets harder and harder to find, and that was unique about this - a Marvel character that had never been portrayed outside of a couple of episodes of a Spider-Man cartoon."

Morbius is a far cry from playing The Joker in Suicide Squad, especially as there won't be the same expectations with this anti-hero as there were with the Clown Prince of Crime. That could be of great benefit to the actor given the divisiveness that surrounded his portrayal of the iconic Batman villain, and we're certainly intrigued to see what he brings to the table as the Living Vampire.

Morbius is set to be released in theaters on April 1. 

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GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/24/2022, 8:33 AM
OT:

Thoughts with the Ukrainian people. It’s a scary world right now.
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 2/24/2022, 8:35 AM
@BlackBeltJones - maybe try to stay on topic for more than five minutes and zero posts.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 2/24/2022, 8:48 AM
@BlackBeltJones - It aint just them. Get ready to be paying $5 gallon for gas, more inflation, more shortages and the potential for nuclear war. China is gonna back Putin and things are gonna get MUCH worse.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/24/2022, 8:52 AM
@Feralwookiee - you’re right. Here we go.
Conquistador
Conquistador - 2/24/2022, 9:03 AM
@BlackBeltJones - Situation is fuct. Can't believe we're seeing sh!t like this in 2022.

I honestly really wonder what's going through the minds of the Russian soldiers as they "neutralise" this threat. Are they blindly following Putin or do they have an opinion on what their leader is filling their heads with but aren't able to express it due to their political ways?
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 2/24/2022, 8:35 AM
I thought the trailer teased that?
Origame
Origame - 2/24/2022, 9:40 AM
@originalmrphil - if by teased you mean beat you over the head with it.
TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 2/24/2022, 8:36 AM
I hope they've given a lot of thought to what Keaton is doing there and it's not just a case of somebody being like 'hey wouldn't it be cool if Toomes shows up'.

Which now that i think about wss exactly the case with Eddie in the credits of NWH.
The1st
The1st - 2/24/2022, 8:41 AM
@TheManWithoutFear - Exactly, cuz at this point all I see every time this brought up is Ryan Reynolds...
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/24/2022, 8:52 AM
@TheManWithoutFear - I’m seems like it’s gonna be an Eddie in NWH situation
DemonTweeks
DemonTweeks - 2/24/2022, 8:39 AM
"Morbius is set to be released in theaters on April 1..... or May 1.... or maybe June 1...."
Origame
Origame - 2/24/2022, 9:30 AM
@DemonTweeks - its almost as if there's been a pandemic or something that caused all movies to shuffle their release dates around.
grif
grif - 2/24/2022, 9:45 AM
good for keaton. not watching morbius.


MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 2/24/2022, 9:45 AM
I'm always excited to see Keaton, but after all these delays, the cameo feels like it has lost any muster it had. Especially since No Way Home.
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 2/24/2022, 10:47 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - His inclusion feels like a big continuity mistake. I guess they could say that he's a different Toomes from the one in Homecoming.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 2/24/2022, 12:42 PM
And yet I feel like we’ve seen all of Michael Keatons parts in the trailer… I wonder why he is excited to bring a new character to life from Marvel (SONY because the Marvel Studios didn’t want him for anything?) maybe because people have expectations of decent acting when the characters already been portrayed by a good actor.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 2/25/2022, 4:29 PM
I love Michael Keaton's Vulture, but I hate this weird revisionist history surrounding it that the Vulture was some obscure joke character until Michael Keaton came along and "saved" the character.

In the comics (and even the cartoons), the Vulture is one of Spider-Man's most prominent villains and is usually regarded as a genius scientist like Norman Osborn and Otto Octavius. By that metric, the MCU Vulture is actually a downgrade from the comic book version (at least in terms of skill-level).
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