What connects the new Marvel heroes
Anzugträger: Oscar Isaac als Moon Knight
Quelle: Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios.
Marvel is expanding its film comic universe with two new heroes: “Morbius” and “Moon Knight”. Jared Leto plays a contemporary Count Dracula in New York. And Oscar Isaac gets involved with Egyptian deities. Both wear hoods and have other interesting things in common.
Aheyday, without a PhD, there’s no way to stay in the spiraling multiverse of Marvel movies. No wonder more and more academics are showing up there. “Dr. Norman Osborn!” said Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) recently in Spider-Man: No Way Home when he caught sight of the goblin (Willem Dafoe). The learned congress was immediately completed by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who, however, must be considered more of an esoteric.
The “Spider-Man” film, which was sensationally successful in 2021 – grossing almost two billion dollars – now also established the Marvel Multiverse from the comics in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition to all the Doctores, three Spider-Men appeared, all posing as Peter Parker – in addition to Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and even an older Tobey Maguire, who had played the role ages ago.
From now on, characters can be beamed around from the different worlds, reboots and remakes, as if Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig were seen as Bond at the same time and as if Gert Fröbe in his role from “Goldfinger” was fighting with Mads Mikkelsen from “Casino Royale” . This explicitly includes the Spider-Man Universe, for which Sony has borrowed the rights to all characters from Disney that appear in the comics about the Spider Man, so Venom does, but not Iron Man. Sound complicated? Expect MIT to establish its own Marvel Research degree soon.
Hooded Man: Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius in the film of the same name
What: AP
The preface is necessary to clarify two things about the new Marvel movie “Morbius”: first, the post-credits scene with Michael Keaton as Vulture (because he belongs to the Spider-Man universe and would not have belonged here otherwise) and secondly, the many complaints that were raised before the start that the film didn’t know where it belonged. You could also see that as a good thing, a much-needed rejuvenation against the overflowing complexity that has long since mocked the cliché of the plain comic in a way that to call it ironic would be an understatement.
“Morbius” leaves us largely alone with all the follow-up nonsense. It’s a throwback to a beautifully classic vampire tale, so traditional it starts with a cave full of bats. Word has probably gotten around since the beginning of 2020 that the bastards transfer all sorts of stuff that you don’t want. dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) – he is also doing his doctorate – is very hot for the infection. He hopes to cure a rare blood disorder, something between leukemia and multiple sclerosis, that plagues him as much as his childhood friend Milo. Played by Matt Smith, known as Prince Philip from The Crown. Funnily enough, his character in “Morbius” is called Loxia’s Crown. However, it cannot be assumed that “The Crown” would also have become part of the Marvel cosmos unnoticed.
Seeing himself twice: Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant in “Moon Knight”
What: Marvel Studios 2022.
Unfortunately, Morbius and Crown soon begin to quarrel. They are divided over the question of whether it’s safe to be a vampire, that is, to fly around and “unsanguine” people, as scholarly bloodsuckers describe the practice of fanging in the necks of innocent citizens and slurping away greedily. Crown thinks yes, Morbius thinks no. That’s a shame because it makes the plot run down quite conventionally. The set design and cinematography are fantastic. New York is even darker than in the current “The Batman” – which of course does not belong to the Marvel universe, but to the DC universe, which Dr. However, Morbius does not prevent one or the other allusion to the one-bat vigilante. The two are brothers in spirit, except Morbius doesn’t have to tape pointed rubber ears; they grow all by themselves when he’s hungry. The atmosphere is so beautifully spooky; he could dart forever through the night, from skyscraper to skyscraper, enveloped in a cloud of fluctuating color. Difficult to describe but looks great.
Meanwhile, this weekend, the next Marvel hero is invading living rooms worldwide: The Moon Knight, a comic book hero so little known that to make up for it, he’s being played by Oscar Isaac, who’s fast becoming Hollywood’s most inevitable star of the present is blossoming. Despite the metaphor, he has nothing to do with small animals, but with Egyptian gods. And like dr. Morbius, he likes to sneak around under a hood. And he’s torn inside too. Now on Disney+.