Vulture’s Suit In Morbius Is Different To MCU Version Confirms Director

Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Morbius

Director Daniel Espinosa confirms Michael Keaton’s Vulture suit in Morbius will be different to the Marvel Cinematic Universe version. Keaton first brought Adrian Toomes to the screen with Spider-Man: Homecoming, in which he was shown to be the owner of a salvage company working to clean up the mess from the Battle of New York, only for his business to be shut down upon the creation of the Department of Damage Control. Toomes ultimately turns to crime and runs an illegal arms-dealing business with weaponized Chitauri technology to support his family, putting him on a collision course with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.

Keaton returns as Vulture for Morbius, the latest installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe introducing the titular scientist suffering from a rare blood disease who afflicts himself with a form of transgenic vampirism as an attempted cure, granting him superhuman abilities and a powerful thirst for blood. Jared Leto is leading the cast of Morbius in the titular role alongside Adria Arjona, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal and Tyrese Gibson. Following multiple COVID-related delays, Morbius is gearing up to hit theaters next week, but some behind the film are already offering major details for what’s to come from it.

In anticipation of the film’s release, CinemaBlend caught up with director Daniel Espinosa for a special, spoiler-filled Q&A for Morbius. When asked about the return of Keaton’s Vulture at the end of the film, including the villain’s mechanized suit, Espinosa revealed that the suit is different to the MCU version seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming. See what Espinosa shared below:

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In the same Q&A thread, the Morbius director confirmed that Keaton’s Vulture is the MCU version of the Spider-Man villain, not an alternate reality version. The decision to reveal Keaton’s Vulture will be getting his suit in Morbius a week ahead of the film’s release and is the same as the MCU’s comes as quite a surprise given the level of secrecy both the MCU and SSU have brought to their titles. Additionally, with Morbius trailers only showing Keaton’s Vulture surrounded by law enforcement, it comes as a surprise to learn that his character will not only somehow end up on the other side of jail bars but also get ahold of a mechanized suit.

Given Keaton’s Vulture is now in a different universe for Morbius after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, it makes sense his villain would have a different suit than that of the MCU’s version. The question now rises of how he will acquire said suit as he would seemingly have next-to-no connections within the SSU and find himself completely out of place, though with Sony clearly hungry to set up the Sinister Six for any cinematic universe, it makes sense they would be hungry to push Toomes and Morbius together. Only time will tell if the film helps answer some of these questions when Morbius hits theaters on April 1.

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