Morbius is the latest Spider-Man villain to line up a solo spin-off movie.

Here are the basics about the character…

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Theres finally aVenommovie happening, after years of development, too.

A pair of writers is attached, and apparently theyve already delivered a script.

But who is Morbius?

Lets start with the basics.

Dr. Michael Morbius is a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist that was born in Greece.

In his first comic book appearance, Morbius travelled from Greece to America via boat.

In his bloodlust, he killed the entire crew.

The Lizard got involved in the fight, too.

Spidey and the Lizard realized that Morbius blood could help both of them with their physical transformation issues.

As well as Spidey, he also fought the Human Torch, the X-Men, and Blade.

He was ultimately confronted by Ghost Rider, who told him off for drinking innocent blood.

After that, Morbius vowed to only kill and drink the blood of people that deserved to die.

In the inevitable scrap that followed, Frankensteins monster literally punched Morbius heart out.

He is the son of Dracul and the brother of Vlad III Dracula.

Battling against his instincts, he acts as a vampire hunter and tries to stop the condition from spreading.

The 1990sSpider-Mananimated series rewrote Morbius origin story to make it more personal to Peter Parker.

In the more recentUltimate Spider-Mananimated series, Morbius origin was rejigged once again.

In this version of events, he was a scientist that worked for HYDRA.

Alongside Arnim Zola and Doctor Octopus, he studied the Venom symbiote.

In this continuity, Doc Ock injected Morbius with the vampire serum.

Morbius has also appeared in numerous videogames.

Perhaps most memorably, he appeared in the game adaptation of Sam RaimisSpider-Man 3.

A series of side missions saw Spidey attempting to find a cure for Morbius.

This version of Morbius has a wife.

Her blood is used in the eventual cure, as is a small chunk of the Venom symbiote.

Clearly, there are lots of different ways to approach the Morbius character.

And there arent really that many sacrosanct elements that the writers have to stick with.

You have to have that, or your character isnt really Morbius at all.

But beyond that basic bottom line, anything is possible.

Taking inspiration from some of the darker comics, it could be a bloody R-rated affair.

As it stands, we really dont have much to go on.

These two writers, who have always worked together, first provided the script for the Luke Evans-starringDracula Untoldmovie.

Again, it was a male protagonist in an action-heavy world filled with monsters and special effects.

The reviews, again, werent kind.

Most recently, they provided the story for 2017sPower Rangersmovie.

Once again, it featured character introductions, world-building, action sequences and some sizeable creatures among the baddies.

Sharpless and Sazama are also working right now on theLost In SpaceTV reboot for Netflix.

Not much is known about that yet, but special effects and character introductions seem like a given.

Of course, theres every chance that Sharpless and Sazama will try something new with Morbius.

Their CV is certainly geared more towards weird and wacky than grim and gritty.

However, perhaps Sony is building to something bigger.