Morbius The Living Vampire – Sony announces their latest addition to their Spider-Man spin-off roster

Sony grip on the Marvel Spider-Man franchise takes on a more vampiric form with the announcement of their plans to bring Morbius to the live action screen.

Morbius The Living Vampire is the lates addition to the Sony slate of Spider-Man related characters to get their ‘spinoff’ films, which include Venom, Black Cat, Silver Sable and the Miles Morales’ Spider-Man animated feature.

The character, first introduced in the Spider-Man comics, is Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who suffered from a rare blood disease. A grievous mishap in an attempted to cure himself left him with an vampiric affliction — the thirst for blood, fangs, super strength and the whole nine. He’s tussled with Spidey over the years, with latest interpretations of the character leaning to more of an anti-hero / tragic hero kinda guy.

And seeing that this slew of films will likely not include Tom Holland’s Spider-Man or Marvel Studio’s obvious input, it will be interesting to see Sony can make a decent run of the Spider-Man franchise the third time around.

More as things develop.