Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and I feel like
I have to hand over my title of The Spoiler-Man to Sony because
I cannot believe what they've done when trying to Market the movie.
Over the weekend the company shared an interview for the film that was filled with spoilers for
the post credits scene and yeah...it's a bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays off for em.
Throughout this video we're gonna be breaking down what was said,
what it means for the movie and also why they've done it because...pfffff absolutely bladdy mental.
I've never seen a company out and out just ruin the ending of their film before it even releases
but I think I might have figured out why they've decided to do this.
Obviously there will be heavy spoilers here so if you've managed to avoid
everything and don't want it ruined then I recommend you turn off now.
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With that out the way, thanks for clicking this, now let's get into Morbius.
Ok so before we get into what happens in the scene, I think we have to address just how
braizen Sony have been with their approach to their Marvel movies. If you cast your mind
back to 2019 then you might remember that the Spider-man contract that they had with
Marvel Studios ran out and there was a point where the character was no longer in the MCU.
At the time it seemed like the worst thing that could ever happen but then 2020 came along.
Now the studios renegotiated the contract and though we dont know all the ins and outs of it,
there were some trade-offs. Sony would allow Spider-man to remain in the MCU but they'd also
have their universe connected to it so that they could profit off the studios success.
Basically to boil it down to it's simplest terms, Marvel Studios are you and Sony are that kid
along the street that you hated but you played with them because they had a Super Nintendo.
See what I'm saying.
Now Feige clearly knew what he was getting himself in for and because of this he's kinda kept them at
arms length. Venom dropped into the universe but he went out the door quicker than the plans of
Letitia Wright becoming the next black panther and Morbius has a similar situation going on with it.
In an interview with Cinemablend the director Daniel Espinosa has flat out spoiled the entire
ending of the movie and because of this we can kinda see where things could be going.
Now we have to address a lot of the false advertising that exists around the film.
In trailers we got shots of Oscorp, The Daily Bugle and also a poster
of Spider-man with Murderer written over the top of it.
The final cut of the film doesn't contain any of these shots and though trailers can often
be misleading, I think that this was done on purpose in order to trick people into
thinking the movie is more interesting than it is. This is the movie version of
clickbait and they should change the name from Morbius to More BS, ey having that.
Now another major talking point in the trailers is Adrian Toomes aka The Vulture.
None of the trailer scenes of the character are in the movie and instead our first one
has the sky ripping open like how it did in No Way Home and Toomes is pulled into
a cell in the Morbius universe much like how Venom was at the end of his last solo movie.
Now because he didn't committ a crime in this universe he's let out of jail
and that ends the first scene.
Yeah, completely changes the rules of the spell but moving on.
Now the second post credits scene has Toomes showing up to meet Morbius in his full Vulture
costume. The director confirmed that he has managed to pull this outfit together through
being resourceful and that it's slightly different to the one that he had in the MCU.
Toomes says that he wants to form a team to get revenge on Spider-man and that ends the film.
So lots of things wrong there in terms of the character arcs
and rules that were set up in the MCU.
Firstly, the spell didn't allow people to jump across into other universes at random, it pulled
people into the MCU who knew that Peter Parker was Spider-man. Secondly, as we saw at the end
of No Way Home, everyone was sent back to their home dimension and no one remained behind. Toomes
seems like he's gonna be in the Morbius verse for the forseeable future which makes no sense.
Now on top of this, Toomes very much had an arc in Homecoming that made most people think he
didn't wanna get revenge on Spider-man. At the end of the movie he was very much protecting
his identity and even though he didn't like him, he knew that he saved his life.
He seems like the kind of person who wouldn't join the Sinister Six but instead he's forming them.
Now Morbius doesn't know Spider-man so he wouldn't care about killing him
but beyond that it just feels like they've mishandled everything.
Vulture is probably gonna end up going through the arc he's already been through
where he realises he's just a kid trying to do good and he decides to drop the vendetta.
Now they could spin it where Toomes forgets Peter Parker is Spider-man
and he just remembers this superhero ruining his life. However he's now in a completely
different universe and therefore he doesn't have this realtionship built up with Spider-man
where it would even be the person he hates.
He gets let out of jail because he's done nothing
in this universe but can't drop the feud that he has with the webhead.
Now the director also spoiled that Morbius is set in the same universe as Tom Hardy's Venom
and he said there is a Spider-man but that he couldn't say which version.
Again though, we know Tobey has his own Venom in his Universe, Tom is still in the MCU which is a
dimension Hardy no longer is in so process of elimination, yeah it's Andrew Garfield.
This is pretty big news but I just can't trust Sony to handle things
the way that they need to be. Garfield has already had a crap
time with the studio and I wouldn't wanna see him go through it again.
It's clear that Sony will do whatever they cna to make every movie connected to the MCU
and they don't care if it ruins the universe, breaks the rules or spoils future reveals.
Kevin Feige must be sat there doing a full head shake like Reagan from the Exorcist
because they have the potential to destroy all his hard work.
After hearing this no one is gonna convince me that the Venom Let There
Be Carnage post credits scene wasn't just banged in at the last minute. Look at it,
they have Tom Hardy in a hotel room and then Spider-man appears on a tv screen.
It just screams 'we quickly filmed this without permission.' Tom Holland is unmasked
at Penn Station which doesn't even happen in No Way Home and they just don't care.
Now a studio spoiling a movie before it releases like this is absolutely unheard of. The news
dropped at the weekend and I've been sat thinking for the last couple of days over whether this has
ever happened before and I can't think of any time when a director has ruined their own movie
before it's release. There have been studios that have hinted towards a big reveal being in a movie
but the marketing of this normally happens on the second weekend and they just teases
towards it so it seems more interesting for those that skipped the first viewings.
The review embargo hasn't even lifted yet and it's got me saying 'sony are straaange.'
So why have they done this?
Well I actually think it's because Sony have seen the pre-ticket sales and they
know the movie isn't gonna do well. There's also the initial reactions which are s**ting
on the movie and though it might end up performing well, Sony are desperate.
Thus I think theyre doing this so that they can be like.
'LOOK VULTURE IS IN IT!!! FROM SPIDER-MAN!!! COME SEE IT!!!! IT'S CONNECTED TO THE MCU!!!
YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS OR THINGS WON'T MAKE SENSE IN THE FUTURE!!! IT'S ALL CONNECTED'
This strategy has worked in the past with movies like Captain Marvel
in which people believed that they had to see that in order for Avengers Endgame to make sense.
I think that Sony have just realised that no one really cares about this movie
and due to all the delays, set backs and incoming bad reviews that they just wanna
get people to come and see it because they think there's gonna be some big MCU connections in it.
I think it does the reverse in all honesty though and
now that people know what's gonna happen they're definitely not gonna bother.
My guess is that most of you watching this haven't seen the film yet and are just
checking this video out because you wanna know whether it's worth spending money to go and see.
Well spoiler alert, it's not, you know what happens now and I think most of you will be
put off by this rather than thinking that you now have to cancel your weekend plans to check it out.
Add to this all the cut scenes and it just seems like the film
is one big mysterio illusion that you don't really need to watch.
People will be disappointed knowing that the things they were excited for
aren't actually in the movie and it just feels like a massive missfire.
It's one of the dumbest things Ive ever seen
and I can see why this film is releasing on April fools day.
I almost feel like my job here is done, the Spoilerman is no longer
needed and studios are just willing to ruin things before the release.
I'm in two minds over whether to do a breakdown on friday but yeah,
let me know below what you think of the whole situation.
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I’ve been Paul and I’ll see you next time. Take care, Peace