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Feb 14, 2024 · Madame Web director S. J. Clarkson has explained why she and co-writers Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, and Claire Parker altered an iconic Spider-Man line for the new movie.
Jul 9, 2021 · Boasting five contributors including Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker, S.J. Clarkson, and Kerem Sanga, the script pulls its characters not only across decades and far flung...
Feb 13, 2024 · Screenplay: Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker & SJ Clarkson; story: Karem Sanga, Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless, based on the Marvel Comics. Camera: Mauro Fiore. Editor:...
Feb 17, 2024 · The writers, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who wrote the last baffling Sony Marvel movie, Morbius, which was meme’d into infamy last spring, are also responsible for the film’s campiness, in that the dialogue on display here is laughably cumbersome and unnatural.
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Mar 31, 2022 11:01 pm
Posted: Mar 31, 2022 12:00 am
Morbius hits theaters on April 1, 2022.
Sony’s Spider-Man Universe has its first expansion out of Venom territory with Morbius, the Jared Leto-led superhero flick about a so-called “Living Vampire.” Director Daniel Espinosa approaches this bat-man’s beginnings with horror flourishes once seen in his sci-fi thriller Life, but they’re never pronounced enough that they’ll satisfy horror audiences. Morbius presents its origin story with the most formulaic structure, as an overly serious Leto is doing the opposite of Tom Hardy’s campy Venom schtick that so many adore. It’s a choice that promotes Morbius’ moral conundrum as a self-conscious vampire over anything considered “superhero cinema fun,” taking everything deathly serious to an ultimate detriment.
We’re introduced to Dr. Michael Morbius as a Nobel Prize winner with a crippling blood disease he’s vowed to cure. His acclaim, and his company Horizon’s breakthrough, is an artificial blood that has saved countless lives — the seafoam-colored liquid represents one of the film’s outlying blasts of color amidst putrid darkness. Morbius works alongside scientist and eventual romantic interest Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona) in the name of his ailing best friend Milo (Matt Smith) since their early private health care treatments. It’s the epitome of serious consequences brought upon by fraternal love as Morbius splices vampire bat DNA with a human subject — himself — leading to his ghoulish transformation into a not-yet-proven-controllable killing machine.
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Morbius feels churned out of a Superhero Movie factory, made from stock parts — except for Matt Smith’s portrayal of Milo. He appears to have just waltzed off the set of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, allowing his dapper underworld adventurer a colorfulness the film desperately needs. Smith’s flamboyance and spirit is the antithesis to Leto’s drearil...
So Morbius advances, calling on direct Batman imagery as the winged creatures swirl overhead and taking jabs at Marvel’s mightiest Avengers. A stern tone becomes the film’s downfall, because there’s nothing exceptional about poorly underwritten supporting characters — Adria Arjona, Jared Harris as Milo and Dr. Morbius’ caretaker Emil Nikols, Tyrese...
Morbius is unspectacular in ways that waste the potential of what could be an intriguing hybrid of sinister horror and superhero thrills. One single scene recalls David F. Sandberg’s Lights Out for a suitable fright, but otherwise horror accents are limited to cheesy jokes about Dracula. That’s the approach the whole film takes, in fact. Everything...
Feb 16, 2024 · Directed by S.J. Clarkson (and a crowded screenwriting room consisting of herself, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, and Claire Parker), Madame Web has the right self-contained origin story approach...
Feb 14, 2024 · Directed by S.J. Clarkson from a screenplay by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker and Clarkson. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13 for violence/action and language. Multiple theaters.
