At this point it's pretty much a given that
Marvel is planning to introduce Doctor Strange to their cinematic universe, but
it wasn't until Captain America: The Winter Soldier premiered that we got
confirmation that the character exists in the universe that Marvel is
continuing to build up.
When speaking with Cap and Black Widow, Agent
Jasper Sitwell (Maximiliano Hernández) mentions a list of potential threats and
one of the names in the list is one Stephen Strange, who for those that don't
know is Doctor Strange.
When asked about the implications of having the
character's name on the film and whether or not Doctor Strange is already
active in the Marvel world, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige had this to
say:
"Well,
'we' know what it means and where we want to head with it, but we were
comfortable with keeping it in there and leaving it in there because there are
a few different ways to interpret it. The whole thing, what Sitwell’s saying
is, this algorithm is going to predict if you’re going to become a problem for
Hydra or not. So you don’t have to just be Tony Stark, actively plotting to
save the world. You could be a kid whose SAT scores and whose essays have
indicated that you’re going to be a problem one day. So is Stephen Strange the
Sorcerer Supreme? Probably not at that point. Is he an unbelievably talented
neurosurgeon who’s opinionated and kind of arrogant? Probably. That might put
him on the list."
Those of you that watched the movie, might also
have noticed that Hawkeye doesn't make an appearance in the movie, but Feige as
an answer for that:
"We will discover, later,
the answers to that question. But it really came down to how many players can
you have on the field at this time? We really wanted to bring in Falcon, we
really wanted to team [Captain America] up with Black Widow, we really wanted
Fury to have more of a part than he’s ever had in any of the other movies
before. We wanted, ever so briefly, to introduce Sharon Carter. And we had a
fun place for Maria Hill to be involved. So we didn’t want to just have, “Hey, I’m
Hawkeye! Hey, I’m Iron Man!” We want to avoid the brief cameos of the week....Not every character from every movie is going to be in Age of Ultron, for sure. But Joss [Whedon] is excited and, for the characters you
haven’t seen since the first Avengers – like Hawkeye, like Hulk – there’s a
reason for that, and that gets showcased quite prominently in Age of Ultron."
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