Smith was originally announced to play comic book character Loxias Crown / Hunger, but this was later changed to a significantly different character based on Michael himself. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 35 out of 100 based on 55 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Previously, the character was set to appear in Blade (1998), portrayed by director Stephen Norrington in a cameo appearance ahead of a larger role in a sequel. His colleague Martine Bancroft discovers he has secretly captured dozens of vampire bats from Costa Rica in the hope of splicing their genes with his own to cure his condition. In the laboratory, Sarah Jane's eyesight starts to clear, but the monstrous body of Morbius gets off the operating table and lumbers towards her.Smith revealed that it's thanks to his Doctor Who co-star (and Marvel's very own Nebula) Karen Gillan that he decided to take on the role of Milo. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease. Scott Mendelson, writing for Forbes, agreed with the comparison to Venom which he felt was a good move by Sony due to the success of their last few Spider-Man films, but cautioned that Leto may not have the same box office draw for general audiences that Tom Hardy gave to Venom. This decision was also met with criticism from various outlets, which speculated that the release was because Sony was unaware that the Internet trend was not due to legitimate popular admiration towards the film. In The Television Companion (1998), David J Howe and Stephen James Walker praised Madoc as Solon and the sets, and noted that the violence was realistic but adult.

The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News. In January 2021, the film was delayed again, first to October 8, 2021, and then to January 21, 2022, when No Time to Die was moved to the October 2021 date.The digital film will include bonus materials such as outtakes and bloopers; featurettes on the stunt team, visual effects and more; and “nocturnal Easter eggs. Morbius had led an army of mercenaries, promising them the Elixir and immortality and revealing its existence to the cosmos. Coming out a few months later, it revealed the bite mutated Blade, giving him the same powers seen in the film. Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster were producing, [8] and filming was expected to begin by the end of 2018.