Michael Keaton stole the show with a brief appearance at this year’s Oscars last weekend, and now the actor is now reflecting on a cameo that didn’t make a big splash.
We all know Michael Keaton played the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but does anyone remember his appearance Sony’s 2022’s critical and commercial bomb Morbius?
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused during a recent interview promoting his new directorial effort Knox Goes Away [read our review here], Keaton discussed his Morbius cameo. When asked by the host if he knew where that cameo was leading, Keaton says he had no idea.
The actor reveals, “No. No idea. None, zero. Then they said okay, and even they couldn’t quite explain it. [I was like], ‘I really don’t quite know what you’re talking about or [who] some of these people are,’ and [the director] said, ‘Okay, let me explain. But it was complicated because they were, obviously, looking down the road.” Keaton adds that he went with the flow, “And I go, ‘Okay, I’m in. Let’s try it.'”
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While it remains to be seen if we’ll see Keaton’s Vulture back in either the MCU or Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, Keaton is returning to another of his past roles this year and is set to star as Beetlejuice once again in the Tim Burton-directed Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. In the meantime, check out the Morbius cameo below…
One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?
Morbius was directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) and starred Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) as Dr. Michael Morbius, Adria Arjona (Pacific Rim Uprising) as Martine Bancroft, Matt Smith (Doctor Who) as Milo, Jared Harris (The Terror) as Morbius’ mentor, Michael Keaton (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as The Vulture and Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious) as Simon Stroud.
