Michael Keaton Did not Perceive His Morbin’ Time

Simply whenever you thought Morbin’ Time couldn’t get higher, Michael Keaton has put a cherry on prime. On the finish of Morbius, 2022’s campy Spider-Man adjacent film, the long-lasting actor makes a quick, seemingly non-sensical cameo, reprising his function from 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. The implication was some sort of integration between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Sony Spider-Verse, or so we believed.

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Talking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Keaton had a moderately shocking reply when requested how a lot he knew or understood what he was doing in Morbius. “No,” he mentioned. “No concept. None. Zero. And even they couldn’t fairly clarify it.”

Within the movie, Keaton’s character randomly exhibits up within the Morbius world and rapidly meets the vampiric title character. He says to him, “I’m undecided how I acquired right here. It has to do with Spider-Man, I feel. I’m nonetheless figuring this place out however I feel a bunch of men like us ought to workforce as much as do some good.” To this imprecise Sinister Six tease, Dr. Michael Morbius replies, “Intriguing.”

It’s fairly clear simply from that trade that nobody had any concept what any of this meant. Keaton dove a bit deeper. “[Morbius director Daniel Espinosa] mentioned ‘Let me simply sort of inform you’ and I’m going ‘Okay I actually don’t fairly know what you’re speaking about and even who a few of these individuals are’,” Keaton mentioned. “Nevertheless it was difficult as a result of they have been clearly trying down the street and mentioned ‘Right here’s the way it going to work. That is what’s going to occur right here.’ And I’m going ‘Okay, I’m in.’”

Keaton might have been “in” however whether or not or not any of what ended up on display screen finally ends up that means something stays to be seen. Madame Internet, the subsequent Spider-Man live-action film, definitely didn’t clear something up, however there’s all the time Kraven the Hunter which is coming in a couple of brief months. Perhaps that movie will reference Jared Leto’s Morbius and Keaton’s Vulture connection. In all probability not although. As an alternative, we’re guessing the scene will simply exist as probably the worst superhero end-credits scene thus far. One which’s definitely not the fault of Keaton, a really sport actor who put his belief within the Morbius workforce.

Watch Keaton’s full trade about 33 min into the podcast at this link. He additionally briefly mentioned one other doomed cameo of his, within the canceled Batgirl film. Morbius and its wild finish credit scene are currently on Disney+.