5 Superhero Movies with Delays as Bad as Morbius

The film group wept when information broke earlier this week that Jared Leto’s Morbius was delayed to April. Marvel’s vampiric antihero is supposed to be the following addition to Spider-Man’s cinematic world, which has expanded in some fascinating methods lately, but it surely simply hasn’t come to fruition for the frontman of 30 Seconds to Mars. Altogether, that is its seventh delay: first meant for the summer time of 2020, the pandemic has precipitated Sony to push it again quite a few occasions within the hopes it’s presumably a Venom-sized success. (In addition to the Omicron variant, the blockbuster success of Spider-Man: No Way Home can be attributed to this latest delay.)

Ultimately, these delays are trivial, however they admittedly hit laborious for the superhero style. The MCU prides itself on its ahead momentum, and 2020 was notable in that no MCU film launched in any respect, inflicting a number of to reevaluate their relationship to Disney’s megafranchise. Even Warner Bros.’ universe of heroes stay unclear on how movies tie collectively as they watch for The Flash to reset all the pieces.

Inspired by Morbius’ latest pushback, we determined to look again at among the most notorious delays that superhero films have confronted in recent times. Not all are tied to the pandemic, and never all are out but, however they’re notable all the identical for a way a lot their dates have shifted round.