Doctor Strange

Rory28 · 30-10-2014 7:40pm

Corholio wrote: »

Meh I'm not a fan of changing the original concepts of characters just to 'mix it up a little'. Black Panther was announced today so that's that covered, but I hope they stay away from such nonsense as having a black/female/outside the box Doctor Strange or the ilk. They only get once chance to do these films from the comics, why not do them right.

Well maybe not just one shot. In the xmen they went back in time to cancel out number 3.
Or at least thats what I took away from it.

Agent Coulson · 04-11-2014 5:31pm

Scott Derrickson tweeted this yesterday.

https://twitter.com/scottderrickson/status/529301977403240448/photo/1

EoinMcLovin · 05-12-2014 12:02am

Marvel confirms Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/389349-marvel-confirms-benedict-cumberbatch-as-doctor-strange

Nervous Wreck · 05-12-2014 12:05am

Reckon he'll be great.

Mickeroo · 05-12-2014 3:24am

Perfect casting on paper at least.

05-12-2014 3:28am

I was hoping for Keanu Reeves though its certainly better casting than it could have been. Long as its not another generic origins story this could really be something special.

05-12-2014 11:03am

Deleted User wrote: »

I was hoping for Keanu Reeves though its certainly better casting than it could have been. Long as its not another generic origins story this could really be something special.

Strange is a charismatic character (even when he reigns in his excesses after the accident). No way could Reeves pulled that off

05-12-2014 11:11am

Corholio wrote: »

Meh I'm not a fan of changing the original concepts of characters just to 'mix it up a little'. Black Panther was announced today so that's that covered, but I hope they stay away from such nonsense as having a black/female/outside the box Doctor Strange or the ilk. They only get once chance to do these films from the comics, why not do them right.

Pffft, have you no imagination!!!

It should have been the White Panther and be a woman, who is a working mom and a lesbian from Finland, in the snow!!!

Soft Falling Rain · 05-12-2014 1:27pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Strange is a charismatic character (even when he reigns in his excesses after the accident). No way could Reeves pulled that off

Depends on what you mean by charismatic, Reeves isn't a showman like RDJ, but I always found that he has an understated but powerful magnetic presence that's hard to pin down. I'd certainly see him as charismatic.

05-12-2014 1:33pm

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

Depends on what you mean by charismatic, Reeves isn't a showman like RDJ, but I always found that he has an understated but powerful magnetic presence that's hard to pin down. I'd certainly see him as charismatic.

I would find him too flat. He has presence and I actually like his films but not the gravitas that Strange should have.

Totally my opinion mind

Nervous Wreck · 07-12-2014 1:31pm

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

Depends on what you mean by charismatic, Reeves isn't a showman like RDJ, but I always found that he has an understated but powerful magnetic presence that's hard to pin down. I'd certainly see him as charismatic.

I agree with this about Reeves. But. Strange should be on the verge of flamboyant and that's one thing I couldn't really see Reeves doing. It's just not how he'd play it and I think that'd be to the detriment of the character. Would like to see Reeves in the MCU at some point though.

JP Liz V1 · 27-05-2015 8:49pm

Tilda Swinton in talks to join

JP Liz V1 · 11-06-2015 10:36pm

Deadline are reporting that Chiwetel Ejiofor in talks to play villain Baron Mordo

EoinMcLovin · 14-07-2015 11:50pm

Tilda Swinton has confirmed that she will be playing the Ancient One
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/tilda-swinton-confirms-role-as-ancient-one-in-doctor-strange

JP Liz V1 · 27-07-2015 10:08pm

Rachel McAdams confirms she in talks to join http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a660397/rachel-mcadams-reveals-shes-in-talks-for-marvels-doctor-strange-its-still-super-early-days

JP Liz V1 · 27-08-2015 11:12pm

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/doctor-strange-mads-mikkelsen-1201549501/

Impressive cast list as it goes on

EoinMcLovin · 14-09-2015 7:22pm

Rachel McAdams confirmed

Agent Coulson · 01-10-2015 7:51pm

Doctor Strange is going to be an origin story.

Kevin Feige

For some reason people sometimes talked about how we're not doing an origin story, we're bored of origin stories. I think people are bored of origin stories they've seen before or origin stories that are overly familiar," Feige explained. "Doctor Strange has one of the best, most classic, most unique origin stories of any hero we have, so why wouldn't we do that? That was sort of always the plan. How you tell that origin, perhaps there are ways to twist it or play with that, but for the most part, it's a gift when the comics have something with such clarity of story and of character. That doesn't always happen in the comics, and when it does, you use it."

Because Doctor Strange is going to be dealing heavily with concepts only touched upon in other Marvel movies -- like the Quantum Realm, which was introduced in Ant-Man -- I asked Feige which character will serve as the eyes of the audience to introduce them to this film's new world. "Strange, for sure," he said. When prompted about what purpose Rachel McAdams' unspecified character will serve, Feige noted that she's the audience's eyes "to a certain extent."

"She plays a very, very big part in the movie and represents a certain point of view of the worlds that we experience in that movie, but Doctor Strange, without a doubt, is the character we follow through the movie," said Feige.

Talk also turned to the gender of the Ancient One, considering in July Tilda Swinton said she didn't know whether she would play the character as a man or a woman.

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2015/09/30/doctor-strange-kevin-feige-discusses-rachel-mcadams-female-ancient-one?%20hub%20page&utm_content=4

01-10-2015 8:09pm

FFS his origin is basically Tony Stark with magic

brianregan09 · 01-10-2015 11:40pm

Not really strange is a miracle surgeon who damages his hand in a car crash thus rendering his surgery skills null and void then he turns to magic no suits of armour here

02-10-2015 8:03am

brianregan09 wrote: »

Not really strange is a miracle surgeon who damages his hand in a car crash thus rendering his surgery skills null and void then he turns to magic no suits of armour here

Genius, self centred and narcissistic playboy has traumatic and life changing debilitating event, cauing introspection and use of new power to fight the forces of evil.

Which one am I talking about?

TherapyBoy · 02-10-2015 8:17am

BAAATMAN!!

02-10-2015 8:21am

TherapyBoy wrote: »

BAAATMAN!!

Ha

Bruce wasn't a dick like the other two, happened when he was too young

Bacchus · 02-10-2015 8:27am

Deleted User wrote: »

Genius, self centred and narcissistic playboy has traumatic and life changing debilitating event, cauing introspection and use of new power to fight the forces of evil.

Which one am I talking about?

Sure, put in broad strokes they look very similar but the journey is quite different and the inclusion of magic alone will make this origin stand out quite a bit from any of the other superhero origin stories.

Granted Feige is overselling how original and different this will be but it is undeniably a different origin story to any Marvel have had so far.

02-10-2015 9:24am

Bacchus wrote: »

Sure, put in broad strokes they look very similar but the journey is quite different and the inclusion of magic alone will make this origin stand out quite a bit from any of the other superhero origin stories.

Granted Feige is overselling how original and different this will be but it is undeniably a different origin story to any Marvel have had so far.

You replace magic with tech abd it's the same. Now I'm not saying that it doesn't need explanation but flssh backs would suffice.

It's generally/broadly too similar to be an entire origin film again

Agent Coulson · 02-10-2015 9:30am

The way Marvel/Disney will look at it is how many casual viewers (70% of the MCU viewers) will have a clue who Dr Strange is and why the hell does the MCU now have magic in it.

An origin story was always going to happen to introduce Dr Strange and magic.

Mickeroo · 02-10-2015 9:32am

It won't be straigh up magic anyway, it will be like Thor where they pass it off as a more advanced science or something, probably why he's mentioning the quantum realm from Antman. Nutjobs use quantum mechanics to explain all sorts of made up bollox in real life so they'll probably go that route here too!

DivingDuck · 02-10-2015 9:37am

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The way Marvel/Disney will look at it is how many casual viewers (70% of the MCU viewers) will have a clue who Dr Strange is and why the hell does the MCU now have magic in it.

An origin story was always going to happen to introduce Dr Strange and magic.

They talk about magic in the first Avengers movie, though. When Widow is trying to counsel Hawkeye to get over being been Loki's flying monkey, she says something along the lines of monsters and magic being something they were never trained for.

Most of the Asgardian stuff has been explained as magic, though there was that one scene in Thor 2 where Jane puts their magic into scientific terms when she's lying in the Soul Forge/Quantum Field Generator. Wasn't there also some stuff in Avengers 2 with Stark and Banner discussing the properties of the hammer and whether or not it was really "magic"?

It wouldn't hurt to have a better and more thorough explanation of the idea, but it's definitely nothing new to the MCU.

Nervous Wreck · 02-10-2015 9:50am

The notion that Stark and Strange have the same origin is pure bollocks. Similarities, loose ones in terms of superhero origin stories, don't make them the same. There is definite need for a Doctor Strange origin story because it's needed to set up not only Strange but pretty much all the supporting cast/villains. Also, it's a great origin.

Agent Coulson · 03-11-2015 1:59pm

Michael Stuhlbarg cast as

Doctor Nicodemus West

Tefral · 03-11-2015 2:06pm

Its worth watching this http://marvel.com/movies/movie/27/doctor_strange

Nervous Wreck · 03-11-2015 6:37pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Michael Stuhlbarg cast as
Doctor Nicodemus West

Yesssssssssss! Stuhlbarg is an unreal actor. Chuffed with this!

Otacon · 05-11-2015 2:05pm

Our first look at Stephen Strange perhaps?

JP Liz V1 · 15-11-2015 1:13am

Also cast Mads Mikkelson, Amy Landecker and Scott Adkins

Agent Coulson · 18-12-2015 8:53pm

Watched the 1978 TV movie today on Youtube and I have to say it wasn't bad for what it was it stood up ok as an origin story.

Very surprised to see John Mills in it.

Agent Coulson · 30-12-2015 11:05pm

pixelburp · 30-12-2015 11:48pm

So for the uninitiated... is the 'magic' in Dr. Strange actual magic, Harry Potter style, or just pseudo-science ala Thor in that it's simply hyper-advanced technology? Not that the Marvel movies could be mistaken for hard sci-fi or anything, I'm just a little curious as to what all the hocus-pocus is supposed to be, relative to the universe it exists in...

Agent Coulson · 30-12-2015 11:52pm

pixelburp wrote: »

So for the uninitiated... is the 'magic' in Dr. Strange actual magic, Harry Potter style, or just pseudo-science ala Thor in that it's simply hyper-advanced technology? Not that the Marvel movies could be mistaken for hard sci-fi or anything, I'm just a little curious as to what all the hocus-pocus is supposed to be, relative to the universe it exists in...

According to Feige

“He does cast spells, which in the comics have very sort of tongue-twisty fun names,” related Feige. “We don’t want to shy away from that, because that’s what makes Doctor Strange Doctor Strange…He can create these mandalas of light that he can use as shields and he can use as sort of weapons. He can create portals that will open before your eyes that he can step through and go to other places around the world. And frankly, even in this film, we’ll only touch upon what a lot of his powers are.”

http://nerdist.com/marvel-studios-kevin-feige-explains-doctor-stranges-powers/

Mickeroo · 31-12-2015 12:04am

pixelburp wrote: »

So for the uninitiated... is the 'magic' in Dr. Strange actual magic, Harry Potter style, or just pseudo-science ala Thor in that it's simply hyper-advanced technology? Not that the Marvel movies could be mistaken for hard sci-fi or anything, I'm just a little curious as to what all the hocus-pocus is supposed to be, relative to the universe it exists in...

He's a wizard Harry pixelburp.

Though having said that, the norse gods are magical in the comics too and they shoehorned in the psuedo science stuff for the film so who knows.

31-12-2015 12:09am

Agent Coulson wrote: »

According to Feige

http://nerdist.com/marvel-studios-kevin-feige-explains-doctor-stranges-powers/

Sounds like they have not decided

Nervous Wreck · 31-12-2015 2:58pm

pixelburp wrote: »

So for the uninitiated... is the 'magic' in Dr. Strange actual magic, Harry Potter style, or just pseudo-science ala Thor in that it's simply hyper-advanced technology? Not that the Marvel movies could be mistaken for hard sci-fi or anything, I'm just a little curious as to what all the hocus-pocus is supposed to be, relative to the universe it exists in...

I can't imagine they'll be able to make it "advanced science" like they got away with in Thor. Dr. Strange is very very magic orientated. Casting spells, creating portals, travelling the astral plane. He's great and I really hope they do him justice... but so far they've been super faithful to all the other characters so I'm confident this'll be great!

pixelburp · 31-12-2015 3:06pm

Interesting; thanks for that. Not sure how I feel about overt magic creeping its way into the MCU. Never been a mad fan of it as a concept in any genre - except perhaps where its rules are very explicitly adhered to or have definitive limitations. Otherwise it seems like you're only ever a small step from lazy writing and 'magic' being the panacea to any narrative problem, be it a locked door or even death. Hopefully that won't be the case.

Tefral · 31-12-2015 6:03pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Sounds like they have not decided

This is very interesting

“In this film, the Eye is a very important relic that can be quite dangerous if used in the wrong hands, because it has the ability to do any number of things, the most dangerous of which is, it can sort of manipulate probabilities,” explained Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Which is also another way of saying, ‘screw around with time’ — which is part of our story.”

My bet is it contains the Time Infinity Gem...

DivingDuck · 03-01-2016 8:23pm

pixelburp wrote: »

Otherwise it seems like you're only ever a small step from lazy writing and 'magic' being the panacea to any narrative problem, be it a locked door or even death.

Because there's no history in the MCU of people coming back from the dead or anything...