As with any genre, not every superhero movie is going to be well received by everyone, but there is a selection of such movies that are basically derided across the board. One of the most recent examples is Morbius , which saw Jared Leto playing a geneticist who turns into a vampire in an attempt to cure his rare blood disease. The third movie set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe was a critical and commercial flop (our own Eric Eisenberg gave it just one star out of five in his Morbius review ), and that’s despite playing in theaters twice .
It sounds like actor Jared Harris knew going when coming aboard that this was one of those jobs he was doing solely for the paycheck. Harris starred in Morbius as Emil Nichol, the father figure of Michael Morbius and Matt Smith ’s Milo Morbius, his surrogate brother. Although the actor said while speaking with iNews that he doesn’t like how Hollywood has been steering towards “ticking boxes” and a “mass-production” approach when it comes to storytelling, he did acknowledge that he agreed to star in Morbius , which definitely fits those categories, for this understandable reason: Sure, yeah.
I have got a mortgage to pay, you know. Sometimes you say yes to things because you need to make money. Hey, acting is ultimately a job, and while Jared Harris has gained recognition for his roles in projects like Mad Men , Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , Lincoln , Chernobyl and Foundation (which can be streamed with an Apple TV+ subs.