Morbius director Daniel Espinosa breaks down that big Michael Keaton cameo

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Morbius might focus on Jared Leto's titular living vampire, but after Spider-Man: No Way Home blasted the Marvel multiverse wide open, the question on everyone's lips has been: what crossovers are next?

This Sony film, then, had a tough act to follow – and its major cameo, Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes (AKA Vulture) has been known about since an early trailer. In the film, the MCU villain appears in the Morbius post-credits scene, and is transported from his world to the Sony-verse via the multiversal shenanigans of No Way Home. After being released from prison, he meets up with Morbius in full Vulture gear to talk about a team-up of people like them – which the vampire says is "intriguing."

"The whole idea of mixing a character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe with our universe was something that was there from the beginning," director Daniel Espinosa tells GamesRadar+. "The core idea stems from the Spider-Verse, which was the animated movie that came out even before I started shooting my own picture. That idea was started both with us, but also with Kevin Feige. I think that's why they did the last Spider-Man in the way they did."

Morbius was supposed to release long before No Way Home, but the pandemic pushed the Sony film from 2020 to four months after the Spidey movie. With so much moving around, we asked Espinosa if anything about the cameo was affected by the delays.

"Over the last two years, we've been working on the movie constantly," he explains. "And things change. There are always different aspects. But there was also an idea that there might be scenes that you can see later on, that's going to come out."

It's not a leap to think the meeting between Morbius and Vulture is laying the groundwork for the