Nothing in this article will be surprising in the least but it’s important that everyone knows where things stand. Besides, I am sure there are some people out there eagerly awaiting Morbius.
Anyone? …Hello?
Sony announced that it is postponing its entire upcoming schedule of films due to the…well, you know. Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been moved from July 10, 2020 to March 5, 2021. The Tom Hanks WWII drama Greyhound has been indefinitely delayed. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, which I assume is a real movie that people will pay to see, has been pushed to January 15, 2021. The forever-in-development Uncharted is now going to open on October 8, 2021, which pushes an untitled Sony-Marvel movie (Venom 2?) into the undisclosed future.
And, yes, sadly the Jared Leto vehicle Morbius has been shuffled from July 31 to March 19, 2021.
So that about does it, right? Every movie positioned to come out this summer has been given a new date. I can’t think of anything that is still being released as planned. Obviously I don’t blame the studios for moving their films around, they really have no choice. But I think it’s smart of Sony to actually give these movies new dates rather than just indefinitely postpone them all. Once again, we need little reminders that someday in the future things will be normal again. Plus they are staking their claim on these dates early and that’s always smart.
I am quite bummed to hear that the new Ghostbusters won’t be out this summer because I have been so curious about that one. Same is true for Hanks’s Greyhound. But it’s better to be safe than sorry. Plus there is a chance — a shrinking chance, true — that theaters will be up and running come the holiday season and Greyhound can debut then. Hey, that’s awards season! That would be perfect. The Morbius postponement is a blow to Sony, who are eager to get their own Marvel-centric cinematic universe off the ground. But the delay will give Sony more time to build hype and it’ll give Jared Leto more time condition his hair or start a bonfire in the desert. I don’t know what that dude does in his spare time.
As for Uncharted, the delay gives the film extra time to hire and lose a few more directors!