“It didn’t go well”: Matt Smith on the failure of ‘Morbius’ between audiences and critics

The premiere of ‘Morbius’ was one of Sony Pictures’ big bets in 2022 and sadly it did not have the desired result: the film only garnered negative reviews, memes and a big box office failure. Now, Matt Smith talks about it and asks the audience to forget the tape and leave it in the past.

In a recent interview with The rolling stones For the upcoming release of “House of the Dragon”, Matt Smith had the opportunity to talk about some of his previous work on the small and big screen. The Sony Pictures film starring Jared Leto, “Morbius,” was no exception and delved a little bit into the disastrous response that the happy film in which he played the antagonist of the story, Loxias Crown, had.

Without avoiding the topic, Matt Smith acknowledged that “Morbius” was not successfulbut he also stressed that the only thing that could be done in this type of situation was to turn the page and leave what belongs to us in the past and continue with life. That is, do not stagnate and overcome for a moment the scenario in which they have been involved.

You just have to keep going. What else are you going to do? It’s a movie, at the end of the day, we’re not saving lives. For some reason, it didn’t work and … it is what it is.

On previous occasions, the actor had been subjected to live teasing public who did not like ‘Morbius’ but that he has several moments left that gave rise to epic memes, such as the case of “It’s Morbin Time”. The actor didn’t take any of the comments for granted, but he didn’t make a fuss about it and simply ignored or said he didn’t know what they were referring to when some memes from the movie were snapped at him.

The failure of ‘Morbius’ between audiences and critics

Since “Morbius” was announced, many fans of the superhero world were skeptical and when the film’s progress was revealed they showed a little more their disagreement and insecurity about the film: they didn’t believe it was a good one. movie. The feeling came true when the film came out and his response was a total flop.

While fans only took memes from and critics gave them very negative ratings of ‘Morbius’, like 16% on Rotten Tomatoes; the box office collapsed managing only to raise the budget and little else, obtaining only 163.9 million dollars … a relaunch was attempted, but also without success.

Currently, “Morbius” is in the HBO Max catalog and there are no signs that there may be a second film to continue the story of the “Spiderman” universe character played by Jared Leto, much less the role he gave him. Matt Smith life