Sony Pictures is staking out two significant dates in 2020 for their piece of the Marvel pie, the Spider-Man universe.
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An untitled Sony-Marvel project will hit theatres on July 10, 2020, with an untitled Sony-Marvel sequel following on October 2.
While no specifics were provided in the studio's announcement, the July project is likely Morbius, starring Jared Leto.
The character is another villain from the Spidey canon, which will be shepherded by Safe House director Daniel Espinosa.
Morbius first surfaced in the 1971 comic The Amazing Spider-Man, as a scientist seeking a cure for a blood disease. Things don't go as planned, and the doctor winds up with vampiric traits and a thirst for blood.
That project should arrive with significant anticipation, given how well the studio fared by playing up another Spider-Man villain in Venom. Speaking of the symbiote, the second date is presumably for Venom 2, which will see Tom Hardy return as a gruff journalist sharing a body with an alien keen on invading the planet.
Sony opened the first Venom, directed by Ruben Fleischer, in the same time frame this year to great success -- the film launched to $US80 million on its way to a lifetime domestic gross of $US210 million.
It has earned close to $US570 million worldwide, and as of Wednesday, amassed $US215 million in China alone in only 12 days of release.
Australian Associated Press