After getting delayed about as many times as Cyberpunk 2077 did, it looks like Daniel Espinosa‘s Sony/Marvel movie Morbius might actually be coming out at some point in the next few months. Hell, we thought this flick was coming out in March, but it’s actually arriving in theaters within the span of 12 weeks, which just seems genuinely crazy to us — both in the sense that time is flying (it felt like college football had just come back just yesterday and now we’re most of the way through the season) and the fact that this Jared Leto-starring vampire-superhero flick is hitting right in the middle of the winter doldrums. Honestly, though, we can’t really blame Sony for dropping this thing in January, given just how crazy crowded the release schedule is going to be for some time, but this brand-new trailer the studio dropped earlier on Tuesday might offer additional insight into why the slowest, coldest point of the distribution calendar may be the best possible place to put it.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis, which is, as you might have guessed, short and sweet, while also managing to heavily emphasize the fact that Oscar-Winning Actor Jared Leto is starring in this comic book movie:
“One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil — or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?”
Morbius arrives in theaters on January 28. Will it get delayed again? Who knows? Maybe the vampire uprising will finally happen and Sony will have to punt this guy on to VOD or something to avoid pissing off all of the newly-created blood-suckers. But, in the meantime, you can totally watch Daybreakers just to see what life under our newfound immortal overlords will look like (and to bask in that sweet, sweet Willem Dafoe performance).