While some Marvel fans had already called for Sony to give their claim on Spider-Man up and allow Disney to take the character and all that comes with him back under the Marvel Studios wing, the release of Morbius doesn’t seem likely to change minds.

Actually, it could well add more voices to that call after the film managed to drag itself to a pitiful 20% critics approval on Rotten Tomatoes, which is worse than Sony’s two Venom movies, which fared slightly better with 30% and 57% for Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage respectively.

While both Venom movies were hits at the box office despite the ratings, Morbius has a huge mountain to climb when it is released on the unfortunate date of April Fools Day.

Morbius has not had an easy time making it to the big screen, with numerous delays caused by the Covid pandemic.

Morbius didn’t seem to be the most eagerly awaited Marvel movie to have been produced at any point, and when rumors started to circulate that all references to Spider-Man that were seen in the trailers had been removed from the movie, there didn’t seem to be any sign of that changing.

Kraven the Hunter already filming, Sony needs to work out what has seemingly gone wrong with Morbius and how they can fix it quickly for their future Spider-Man Universe movies.

One big issue has arisen from the inclusion of Adrian “Vulture” Toomes, which seems to have been added to the movie in a very non-organic way.