For the previous few months, lots of people have been sharing memes related to horrible superhero movie Morbius, which stars famous technique actor Jared Leto as a residing vampire man or one thing…look, I’ve not seen the movie, okay? Anyway, all these memes, jokes, and on-line ha-has have been enjoyable, however issues are getting uncontrolled. Sony—possible seeing all of the renewed curiosity in Morbius and all issues morbin’—has now introduced the film again to theaters. What have we completed?
Morbius was launched again in April to very detrimental critiques. For individuals who aren’t conscious, it’s a Sony Marvel film, not an MCU joint. This implies it could tease at connections to the extra common, profitable MCU movies, however will possible by no means be allowed to actually take part all of the money-making enjoyable of Iron Man and Dr. Unusual.
Making solely about $170 million on the field workplace, Morbius ought to have slid off into the night time to go die in a subject, or no matter occurs to unsuccessful comedian ebook films. However the future Oscar winner obtained a second wind upon its launch on digital streaming, after which the Morbius memes exploded thanks largely to a Twitch channel that started streaming the film 24/7. Right here’s what Kotaku’s personal Jeremy Winslow reported final week:
Due to the movie’s proliferation on Twitch since not less than Might 24, a glut of Morbius memes have began infiltrating the web. There’s Twitter person Rama_Firmansya’s hilarious “History of Morbius Meme” a timeline spanning 2016 to 2022 that charts our development from “hugh mungus” to “amongus” to “morbius.” There are a selection of field artwork memes of Morbius as a Nintendo DS, Switch, and Wii recreation—a trilogy, if you’ll. Hell, I even noticed a whole Twitch channel named morbing_man that was solely streaming Morbius memes earlier than the corporate yeeted it into area. The memes are in every single place at this level, like a virus. Like a…morbius?
And all of this has led to one thing very unusual. Sony, seemingly reacting to all this newfound buzz and on-line morbin’, has introduced the movie again to theaters. As reported by Exhibitor Relations on Twitter, Sony has confirmed that Morbius will probably be back in 1,037 theaters this weekend, over two months after it first opened. And I’ve already noticed not less than just a few of us who’ve purchased tickets.
Sony hasn’t but confirmed why the movie is heading again to so many theaters so lengthy after its preliminary launch. It’s secure to imagine that it has to do one thing with the sudden spike in on-line chatter, however you by no means know. Perhaps Sony simply actually preferred Morbius and wished to share it with of us.
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Kotaku has reached out to Sony concerning the movie’s sudden return to theaters.
Sadly, all this brouhaha might result in an excellent darker future through which Morbius will get a sequel. And positive, we’re all having chuckle on the “Morbin’ Time” jokes, but it surely’s time to cease. The world doesn’t want to provide potential cult chief Jared Leto a profitable C-grade superhero franchise, not to mention extra money. Please, cease morbin’ a lot, of us. There’s nonetheless time. We will nonetheless cease Sony from making Morbius 2.
Perhaps you suppose it received’t be so dangerous? Maybe you even preferred the primary movie? But when we get a sequel, you higher imagine Sony will make the individuals behind it cram in memes, inside jokes, references to the present memes, and god forbid, extra morbin’.
However then once more, that additionally sounds…wonderful?
Okay, by no means thoughts, I’m in. Morb your brains out and get us a horrible, meme-filled, far-too-late sequel that utterly misses the development and finally ends up being a wild shitshow. Maybe that will lastly kill the residing vampire, and with a bit of luck, Leto’s profession.
