Anna Daniels
With Sony already launching (or planning to launch) so many Spider-Verse movies, it’s hard to keep up with who and what we can expect to see out of the growing web of adaptations. One image captured within the Morbius trailer helps further that confusion — or air of mystery, depending on whom you ask.
In the first-look footage, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, Morbius walks past a mural of Spider-Man with the word “murderer” spray-painted across it.
There are a couple things to pull apart from the moment, the first being Spidey’s outfit. It appears to be a blend of several Spider-Man suits, but looks most similar to Sam Raimi’s version. If you can remember all the way back to the 2000s, Tobey Maguire embodied the web-slinger when Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy was dominating silver screens. If you were a hardcore fan of those films, you may have also bought the PlayStation 4 exclusive Spider-Man game featuring an animated version of Peter Parker wearing a Raimi-like suit — which is seemingly the same suit shown in the mural that appears in the Morbius trailer.
The second noticeable thing is the actual language covering the image. The “murderer” statement points to Tom Holland’s most recent turn as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Far From Home. During the final scenes of that film, Peter is accused of killing Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) using footage the villain doctored and sent to J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), who broadcasted it in a video posted to TheDailyBugle.net.
There’s no clarity about what this moment in the Morbius trailer could mean just yet, but here’s to hoping a legit Spidey cameo happens in the theatrical cut.
Written by: Looper
