'He Was on the Valium or Something': Matt Smith Can't Believe Keanu Reeves Was Spotted Watching the Infamously Terrible Movie Morbius on a Flight

Doctor Who and House of the Dragon prima Matt Smith can't judge that Matrix fable Keanu Reeves was precocious spotted watching his infamously unspeakable superhero movie Morbius portion connected a flight.

During an quality connected the Brittany Broski's Royal Court podcast, Smith was stunned to perceive that his widely-derided Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) spinoff had been viewed by Keanu Reeves.

"F*** off, you are joking!" Smith said, seemingly incredulous that Reeves would taxable himself to the Jared Leto-led disaster. "He indispensable person been having a moment," Smith continued. "He was connected the valium oregon something. No but what a legend, I emotion Keanu Reeves, I conscionable privation to marque that truly clear."

Asked what helium watched connected planes, Smith bluntly replied: "Not f***ing Morbius, Jesus Christ. My god, [Reeves] indispensable person truly gone done the British Airways room to beryllium getting to that."

Released successful 2022 arsenic 1 of Sony's assorted mediocre SSU experiments, Morbius was wide panned by critics and fans, with the movie yet becoming a meme for its deficiency of quallity. Smith played Milo Morbius successful the movie, surrogate member to Leto's pb character. Four years on, there's nary proposition that immoderate of its characters are acceptable to return.

IGN's Morbius reappraisal returned a 5/10 score, and dubbed it arsenic an root communicative "that lacks fangs and bite, marred by shoddy computer-digital fights and an overly superior code that does the darkened flick nary favors."

This isn't the archetypal clip that Smith has addressed the wide effect to Morbius post-release. Previously, the histrion suggested that the movie had been "thrown nether the bus," and told Rolling Stone that "you conscionable person to rotation with it. What other are you gonna do? It's a film, astatine the extremity of the day, we’re not redeeming lives. For immoderate reason, it didn’t rather enactment retired and… It is what it is."

Sony pushed connected with its efforts to accommodate the Marvel characters it inactive holds the rights to with 2022's Madame Web and 2024's Kraven the Hunter, alongside its much commercially palmy Venom trilogy. Currently, and possibly thankfully, Sony has nary further live-action SSU movies successful production.

Next up for Spider-Man is of people this month's highly-anticipated MCU introduction Spider-Man: Brand New Day, portion Sony has its 3rd animated Spider-Verse movie owed adjacent year.

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