Morbius returns to theaters, even though no one asks, and his unpopularity only becomes more apparent. The film grossed just $ 85,000 on Friday after returning to more than 1,000 theaters, raising its national gross to $ 73.6 million (via Forbes).
Morbius was originally released on April 1 and was not well received. In The Verge’s review of the film, our television and film reporter Charles Pulliam-Moore says that Morbius’ rhythm, plot, and performance of his lead actors feel “poorly conceived” and ” it calls into question Sony’s grand project to build a whole cinematic universe behind Spider-Man. “
Sony is likely to re-release the film in the hope that a renewed interest in the meme “it’s morbid time” would somehow trigger a second bigger wave of people who would like to participate in the Spider spin-off -Man. But it turns out that the popularity of a meme doesn’t directly correlate with genuine interest, who could have guessed?
In an even more creepy move, Jared Leto, the Morbius star, only had to enter the meme, posting a video on Twitter showing him reading a fake script titled Morbius 2: It’s Morbin ‘Time. Hopefully Sony is just trolling us all and has no plans for Dr. Morbius to make a cameo in the upcoming Spider-Man with his new slogan or, worse, get a sequel.