New Marvel movie Morbius is heading to cinemas very soon. It is being advertised with the tagline, ‘the line between hero and villain will be broken’, which gives a big clue as to the nature of the protagonist - played by Jared Leto.
The film features the Marvel comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire. Leto stars as Dr Michael Morbius - a scientist suffering from a rare blood disease.
His desperate search for a cure leads him to embark on a dangerous experiment that afflicts him with a form of vampirism. He gains superhuman abilities - with none of the superstitious weaknesses associated with vampires - although he does have to feast on the blood of the living to survive. READ MORE: Who was the golfer Maurice Flitcroft that The Phantom of the Open is based on?
That conflict of being a hero with a thirst for blood is at the centre of the film. And it is what attracted Leto to the part.
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