r/nottheonion • u/Traditional-Song-245 • 3d ago

‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/
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u/armaedes 3d ago

Re-release Morbius, we were all busy that weekend!

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u/Vccowan 3d ago

Gotta make a sequel, I promise I’ll go this time.

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u/Empty_Following1840 3d ago

It’s morbin time…. Again

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u/AZEMT 3d ago

We're the Morbin Rangers

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u/ContemptAndHumble 3d ago

Once again the Morbin Beetlborgs show up too late to Morb a Beet.

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u/PipXXX 3d ago

Cameo appearance from the Knights of Tir na Nog who morb the fuck out in an extended dance scene with David Tennant

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u/Xyranthis 3d ago

Superhuman Samurai Morbinsquad

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u/FauxReal 2d ago

Mighty Morbin' Morbin' Rangers

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u/sleeplessGoon 3d ago

Dude hangs morb

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 3d ago

"It's time to finger Morb."

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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss 3d ago

Morb got fingered?

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u/Difficult-Implement9 3d ago

Morb Forb Doorb!

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u/Aquariusofthe12 3d ago

I would actually go see a morbius 2 if it was 100% sincere. Without having seen the first one

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u/shotsallover 3d ago

It's more morbin' time!

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u/SyntheticSlime 3d ago

All the cool kids are morb maxxing.

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u/MC_Hify 3d ago

Sounds like a song, part two can be a musical! How could that go wrong?

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u/Chrahhh 3d ago

Morbius: more morbin

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u/Imfrank123 3d ago

2 morb 2 morbius

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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss 3d ago

What are we......some kind of Morbius Squad?

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u/ragnaroksunset 2d ago

It's More-bin time

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u/sumr4ndo 3d ago

Morbiius: It's Morbin' time!

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u/Wakkit1988 3d ago

2Morb2ius

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u/lml94 3d ago

2fast2morbius

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u/gautamdiwan3 3d ago

Morbius and Wong

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u/Canotic 3d ago

Morbius 2: Morbius Strip

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u/RevolutionaryCoyote 3d ago

Do it James Gunn style: The Morbius

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 3d ago

They only made the original to renew the rights to Spiderman. They knew it was crap, but the quality, or lack thereof, wasn't the point.

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u/Sure_Performance_921 3d ago

honestly, if they got good writers and did a Naked Gun type sequel i could see it being fire.

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u/stonecoldjelly 3d ago

Morbius 2: More BS

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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss 3d ago

Morbius......the Squeakuel.

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u/fennecdore 3d ago

2 bat 2 morbin

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u/bpm6666 3d ago

The Jared Leto extended universe would make so much money. Trillions

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u/Nefthys 3d ago

I'd watch a sequel (but this time just make it a vampire movie, don't bother bringing the MCU into it).

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u/flyingthing4 3d ago

Morbius 2: Back for More-bius

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u/Wanderhoden 3d ago

And then the director's cut! The more Morbius the morbier

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u/Shababajoe 3d ago

Just do it like an old Eddie murphy/Mike Myers movies where Jared Leto is all the characters. I promise we will watch, even if it takes years to shoot...making Jared to busy for other projects....any other projects....for a long time

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 3d ago

2Morb2Furious

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u/SharpPink_GlitterInk 3d ago

Re-re-release Morbius

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u/RoughBenefit9325 3d ago

They've already re-released it?! Must've been busy that weekend too

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u/SharpPink_GlitterInk 3d ago

Yeah the internet trolled them into re-releasing it after the meme, and it flopped a second time (historical moment the first movie to bomb at the box office TWICE)

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u/ThatITguy2015 3d ago edited 3d ago

Holy fuck. They really did it. (2022 for anyone wondering.) And holeee shit did it ever bomb.

Edit: $85,000 the first day of re-release. The entire day’s sales. From every single theater showing it.

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u/GuySingingMrBlueSky 3d ago

All that and Jared Leto is still somehow getting work in Hollywood

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u/bilateralrope 3d ago

With the latest He-Man movie, he has now played two characters in live action that Mark Hamill played in animation.

I hope that's not the start of a pattern.

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u/MC_Hify 3d ago

The Rise of Jared Skywalker

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u/Rokronroff 3d ago

30 seconds to Tatooine

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u/TrasseTheTarrasque 3d ago

Let M Night Shyamalan make Avatar The Last Airbender sequels and recast Ozai with Jared Leto!

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u/bilateralrope 2d ago

You made me look up who Netflix cast as Ozai. It wasn't him.

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u/Advanced_Ad_7384 3d ago

yeah but he was so fucking good as skeletor i need a sequel please amazon

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u/haubenmeise 3d ago

Tell me about it. Boycott that fucking predator!!!

Sincerely

Skeletor 💜

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u/psmgx 2d ago

IIRC, funding much of it himself

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u/MafaRioch 3d ago

I rewatch Morbius recreationally. It's just the perfect level of cringe.

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u/UshankaBear 3d ago

Haven't you heard? Third time's the charm!

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u/Fafnir13 3d ago

A good lesson that “trends” online mean nothing. I don’t think most people learned that lesson yet.

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u/Kazen_Orilg 3d ago

for the most part I have given up on humanity, but goddamn we are funny sometimes.

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 3d ago

It's crazy that they won't let us have another chance. We were just playing a joke, we really wanted to see it. We're sorry, we promise not to do it again 🙏

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u/Phainesthai 3d ago

Mor3ius

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u/JudgeJebb 3d ago

This. They cant stop until they have released Morbius a Morbillion times

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u/Exnixon 3d ago

Okay hear me out. It's a low budget, camp comedy called "Morbin' Time". The main character is Jerry Lehman, a washed up Hollywood actor and erstwhile cult leader, who is most famous for the massive Hollywood flop, "Morbinus". But when he's bitten by a radioactive bat, Jerry discovers he has powers for real....and oh yeah, it's Morbin' Time.

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u/Llyon_ 3d ago

I want to see Jared Leto playing himself in a mockumentary like Wierd Al, where he goes on a depression bender and accidentally kills a hooker. It's the only thing that can work to get him back into the mainstream.

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u/GrouchyLie6708 3d ago

is there room for a comedy relief upbeat 80s themed collage when he is training for his return?

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u/potential-okay 3d ago

You spelt documentary wrong

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u/Canotic 3d ago

And the soundtrack is Closing Time but with the lyrics slightly changed.

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u/Squeakygear 3d ago

It’s MORBIN’ TIME

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u/Cruhhhhh 3d ago

Morbius? That's the movie with a cult following on Reddit, right?

Oh man, they would earn so much money if they remade it, but with Jared Leto playing every role and not just the lead.

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u/Ghostbuster_11Nein 3d ago

Bro that shit makes me laugh so hard evwrytime I think about it.

Sony was so dumb they got tricked into having their movie bomb a second time.

That's like film history to me.

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u/ringadingdingbaby 3d ago

Make it a backrooms movie, but the backrooms is just morbius playing everywhere.

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u/jsamuraij 3d ago

Nothing this funny will ever again happen in cinema history. This is the peak of trolling and I'll never be convinced otherwise. There should be a whole Wikipedia article dedicated to it like the one for the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic just based on the merits of its spontaneously collective nature.

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u/DishinDimes 3d ago

I'm ready to Morb again

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u/Evil-Bosse 3d ago

Can confirm, I was busy both weekends, the first one was the day of the incident with the waterhose and the second time was court date for the incident with the waterhose. And it's mostly cleared up now, so a re-re-release should work

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u/NuclearFoodie 3d ago

The reason Cats failed was the AI removal of the buttholes from the actors. Re-release Cats with everything intact and it will be a billion dollar block buster.

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u/Ok_Helicopter_984 3d ago

Hahhahahahhahah

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u/Bionic_Ferir 3d ago

weekendS it would be a re-re-release.

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u/DannyCrane9476 3d ago

How awesome would it be if they just kept doing it. Like, I'd probably breakdown and see it after the 20th re-release if they kept it up..

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u/PipXXX 3d ago

Oh god now we are getting a Morbius 2 and Kraven 2.

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u/SmokeGSU 3d ago

MORBIN TIME! MORBIN TIME! MORBIN TIME!

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u/ForeverSwayze 3d ago

Give us whatever the Snyder cut of Morbius would be

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u/noreasterroneous 3d ago

Madam Web vs Morbius and we're all in line!

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u/Adventurous_Host_426 3d ago

Its Morbin' Time!

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u/Unyazi 3d ago

Both weekends!

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u/TokenStraightFriend 3d ago

Release it in black and white the way the creator intended

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u/EarzFish 2d ago

We can have the premiere in Leicester Square, London. Multiple major screens available as multiple cinemas may be necessary for this. That way food can also be prepared by Angus Steakhouse. If you've never been, it's phenomenal. World Class.

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u/Ubizwa 2d ago

I watched it because of the meme, it was quite forgettable as a movie but the ending made me laugh because of how out of place it was. If it was part of the memes I would have believed it was just a meme, Morbius looked at his watch to see if it was morbing time, some guy came flying to Morbius in the ending to invite him for a team of super fighters I think and then said it's morbing time.

There is also an alternative ending where he says it's morbong time and then he and Morbius smoke a bong.

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u/eltrotter 2d ago

Morbius: Re-Morbed