One of the key players in the Doctor Strange comic
books is the Ancient One, a mystic who lives in Tibet and teaches Stephen
Strange in accepting the unacceptable, i.e. magic, but he is an old man that
has lived for centuries, and not Tilda Swinton.
"We’re never afraid to change," said Doctor
Strange producer, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. "In the comic
books, Jarvis is an elderly butler. In the movies, he’s an A.I. system which
becomes Paul
Bettany’s Vision. We are always looking for ways to change. I
think if you look at some of the early incarnations of the Ancient One in the
comics, they are what we would consider today to be quite, sort of,
stereotypical. They don’t hold up to what would work today. Also, within the
storyline of the comics, and our movie, ‘the Ancient One’ is a title that many
people have had. We hit very early on on, What if the Ancient One was a woman?
What if the title had been passed and the current Ancient One is a woman? Oh,
that’s an interesting idea. [Clicks fingers.] Tilda Swinton! Whoa! And it just
hit."
Having said that there is still some doubt as to
whether Swinton is playing a man or a woman in the highly anticipated movie,
and Feige isn't about to make life easier. "Look, she’s a chameleon in
everything she does," he says. "She has this amazing [ability to]
harness of this androgynous sense. So, we use the term ‘her’ and ‘she’ in the
film but, other than that, it’s very androgynous. Because
it doesn’t matter."
Opening on November 4, Doctor Strange also stars Benedict
Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael
Stuhlbarg, and Amy Landecker.
Source - EW
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