So, today on the The Dan Cave, I’m going to take you inside the origins of Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme and let you everything you need to know about Doctor Strange before you see the move.
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Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil) directed the movie with a screenplay by C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts, based on the Marvel comics created by Steve Ditko. It opens on May 6.
Cumberbatch plays neurosurgeon Stephen Strange, who “suffers career-ending injuries in a devastating auto crash, he seeks help in the furthest reaches of the world”. Cumberbatch shared the film’s first teaser, which mostly highlights the character’s backstory. The nerve damage is part of what leads him on his journey to the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton). Judging by the film’s trailer, Doctor Strange will certainly have some spooky bits, but it will not be an outright horror movie.
Dr. Strange arrives November 4th.
“Doctor Strange” stars Benedict Cumberbatch – or as I prefer to call him, Benefit Cumberbund – and this first trailer makes the movie look, well, strange. Doctor Strange, aka Stephen Vincent Strange, is a physician who is injured in a auto crash that ruins his hands. Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, and Benedict Wong round out the cast, with Mikkelsen as the film’s main villain and McAdams as a fellow surgeon.
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The general sense of nausea surrounding the release of Batman v Superman felt indicative of the unusual paralysis Hollywood seems to be in: stuck rehashing exhausted narratives of superheroes that people will grudgingly still see (albeit not as much!) because what else is being offered besides exhausted narratives of superheroes?
