2. Leto Is Now Committed To Sony's Marvel Spin-Offs
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Jared Leto, for some bizarre reason or another, is an actor in demand at the moment. His performance as Joker in Suicide Squad was followed by an extensive role in Blade Runner 2049, before appearing in Netflix's critically panned 'The Outsider' the following year.
As his two Joker projects refused to gather pace, Sony began to move ahead with their own series of Spider-Man spin-offs, beginning with Venom. Subsequent films were announced, with Silk, Kraven and Black Cat leading the way, but then an unusual name made its way into the ring: Morbius - the Living Vampire.
Morbius is a longtime Spider-Man villain turned antihero, and shortly after the project was announced it was revealed that Leto had won the race to land the role. Seeing as how appearing in Marvel and DC films at the same time is a bit of a no-no, it stands to reason that DC were left with little alternative other than to cancel Leto's commitments.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
