Morbius trailer reveals a major MCU Spider-Man connection

Is that who we think it is?

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The trailer for Spider-Man spin-off Morbius, which stars Jared Leto as the vampiricMarvelcharacter, is here. The trailer isn’t all that exciting at first glance: it looks like a cross between a superhero origin story and an Underworld movie, but the big news here is that it has aMarvel Cinematic Universeconnection.

At the end of the trailer, Michael Keaton turns up, presumably reprising his role as Adrian Toomes, AKA the Vulture, from Spider-Man: Homecoming.

This is a significant twist. Morbius hails fromSonylike the Tom Hardy movie Venom did, so we assumed it lived in its own little universe away from the Avengers and pals. This trailer, though, suggests that this spin-off is connected to the wider MCU story in some way. Take a look:

How, though?

Morbius hasn’t been announced as part of the MCU’s Phase Four, so you can expect that anything that happens in this movie lives independently from everything Disney is doing. After all, while Marvel Studios co-produced Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home, it didn’t work on Venom and it’s not working on Morbius.

This suggests Sony has some agency over how the characters are used, regardless of whether they originated in an official MCU movie or not. If that’s the case, it means it’s not inconceivable that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker could pop up in one of these spin-offs.

Morbius also stars Matt Smith and Jared Harris, and is released in cinemas on July 31, 2020.

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Samuel is a PR Manager at game developer Frontier. Formerly TechRadar’s Senior Entertainment Editor, he’s an expert in Marvel, Star Wars, Netflix shows and general streaming stuff. Before his stint at TechRadar, he spent six years at PC Gamer. Samuel is also the co-host of the popular Back Page podcast, in which he details the trials and tribulations of being a games magazine editor – and attempts to justify his impulsive eBay games buying binges.

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