Hey, remember Morbius, the Marvel vampire movie starring Jared Leto that completely fell off the map as Sony bumped its whole film slate an entire year because of the pandemic? Well, it’s back. The Sony/Marvel film is dropping an all-new trailer on Tuesday, and to get fans pumped, Leto appeared in a new featurette for Fandango that has Spidey fans tingling over a specific word choice by the actor.
After briefly describing the character of Michael Morbius the Living Vampire, and showing off some brief new footage that will undoubtedly appear in tomorrow’s trailer, Leto ends the clip by saying that the character opens up a “web of opportunity.”
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A NEW TRAILER IS COMING TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/pNuXPTTc0d
— Fandango (@Fandango) November 1, 2021
Why does Leto saying “web of opportunity” with an extra bit of gusto have Marvel fans freaking out? Spider-Man. For those who don’t know, Morbius is a Spider-Man villain from the comics. But like the first Venom movie, the Morbius film was originally intended to live in its own separate universe. However, that has been increasingly appearing not to be the case. Michael Keaton’s MCU version of the Vulture popped up in the first trailer, which was a major tease that Morbius will have a connection to Tom Holland’s Spidey. Now, you’ve got Leto not so casually making web puns, and it definitely caught Marvel fans’ attention.
You can see some of the reactions below:
“A web of opportunities” pic.twitter.com/2z5e4WVGU4
— Kudo (@tehkudo_) November 1, 2021
There is a web of opportunity
pic.twitter.com/mNryPqMhk8
— Gentleman posts~ #அண்ணாத்த (@gentleman_posts) November 1, 2021
“web of opportunity” pic.twitter.com/Nmir9ZPtE1
— Cole Distad (@c_distad) November 1, 2021
people gonna be talking about this “web of opportunity” the whole week now.
— Straight2theFACT (@Straight2theF) November 1, 2021
When he says there’s a web of opportunity pic.twitter.com/8gjN5VNnGY
— Andeh (@hey_andyk) November 1, 2021
hes fun, some might say hes a…. joker
— EmceeRad (feat. Bars & Beats) (@emceerad) November 1, 2021
(Via Fandango on Twitter)