For the previous few months, lots of people have been sharing memes linked to horrible superhero movie Morbius, which stars famous technique actor Jared Leto as a dwelling 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—probably seeing all of the renewed curiosity in Morbius and all issues morbin’—has now introduced the film again to theaters. What have we carried out?
Morbius was launched again in April to very detrimental critiques. For many who aren’t conscious, it’s a Sony Marvel film, not an MCU joint. This implies it may well tease at connections to the extra well-liked, profitable MCU movies, however will probably by no means be allowed to really 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 evening to go die in a area, or no matter occurs to unsuccessful comedian ebook motion pictures. 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 a minimum of Might 24, a glut of Morbius memes have began infiltrating the web. There’s Twitter consumer 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 number 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 house. The memes are in all places 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 a minimum of a couple of people 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. Possibly Sony simply actually appreciated Morbius and wished to share it with people.
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Kotaku has reached out to Sony in regards to the movie’s sudden return to theaters.
Sadly, all this brouhaha might result in an excellent darker future by which Morbius will get a sequel. And certain, we’re all having a very good snigger on the “Morbin’ Time” jokes, however it’s time to cease. The world doesn’t want to present doable cult chief Jared Leto a profitable C-grade superhero franchise, not to mention extra money. Please, cease morbin’ a lot, people. There’s nonetheless time. We are able to nonetheless cease Sony from making Morbius 2.
Possibly you assume it received’t be so dangerous? Maybe you even appreciated the primary movie? But when we get a sequel, you higher imagine Sony will make the folks behind it cram in memes, inside jokes, references to the prevailing memes, and god forbid, extra morbin’.
However then once more, that additionally sounds…superb?
Okay, by no means thoughts, I’m in. Morb your brains out and get us a horrible, meme-filled, far-too-late sequel that fully misses the pattern and finally ends up being a wild shitshow. Maybe that will lastly kill the dwelling vampire, and hopefully, Leto’s profession.
