After surviving an alien invasion in Avengers, and a power-hungry
Kingpin in Daredevil, is Marvel's New York City ready to welcome two completely
new heroes?
Living on the outskirts of Greenwich Village, Stephen
Strange, aka Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) will make Bleecker Street
his home, and according to a recent interview by Marvel Studios President Kevin
Feige, he will definitely stand out.
"The Sanctum is on Bleecker Street, the modern
day Bleecker Street. He will be the strangest thing
walking out onto that street."
One of the key characters in the Doctor Strange mythos
is The Ancient One, an all-powerful mystic that helps Stephen transcend his
limitations. Predominantly depicted as an old Asian man, but with Tilda Swinton
reportedly closer to getting the part, Feige explains that The Ancient One is
merely a title given to multiple people throughout the ages.
"As we were developing this film we looked at The
Ancient One as a mantle more than a specific person," Feige explained.
"The sorcerers have been around for millennia, protecting us from things
we didn’t know about until this story. There have been multiple [Ancient Ones],
even if this one has been around for five hundred years, there were others.
This is a mantle, and therefore felt we had leeway to cast in interesting
ways."
Despite only hitting theaters in 2016, we won't have to
wait that long to catch a glimpse of the world Marvel and director Scott
Derrickson are building for Doctor Strange. (Spoilers Ahead)
"We send Ant-Man on a very weird, mind-bending
journey at the end of Ant-Man,"
Feige teased. "It was something we hadn’t seen in a shrinking movie
before, but it also represents the tip of the mind-bending weirdness we’re
going to do in Strange, which I
think will surprise people."
Another New York City champion is Spider-Man, played
by Tom Holland, who will make his MCU debut in the upcoming Captain America:
Civil War.
The Sony and Marvel partnership will be directed by Jon
Watts (Cop Car), and will have a John Hughes (Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's
Day Off) feel to it, said Feige, who also addressed the need to introduce previously unseen villains to the world of Spider-Man.
"It’s the soap opera in high school, and those
supporting characters, that are interesting," Feige said. "Just
as we hadn’t seen a heist movie in a long time, or a shrinking movie in a long
time, we haven’t seen a John Hughes movie in a long time. Not that we can make
a John Hughes movie - only John Hughes could - but we’re inspired by him, and
merging that with the superhero genre in a way we haven’t done
before excites us."
Adding that, "right
now we’re interested in seeing villains we haven’t seen before."
Feige also pointed out that unlike the rest of
Marvel's films, Spider-Man's standalone adventure in 2017 doesn't necessarily have
to be about the end of the world.
"Stakes
don’t need to be end of the world. Oftentimes, in our films, it is, and in our
future films Thanos doesn’t work small. But sometimes the stakes can just be
‘Will this little girl grow up to be healthy and well put-together, or are
there too many issues for her to overcome?’" said Faige. "That’s HUGE! That overrides a threat to
reality itself. And I think Spider-Man straddles that line in a fun way in his
comics. What we wanted was a movie where the stakes could be as high as ‘This
bad person is going to do this bad thing, and a lot of people could die’ OR ‘You don’t get home in
time and your aunt is going to figure this out, and your whole life is going to
change.’"
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