Doctor Strange Three Pages Of The Script Leaked?

A Doctor Strange adaptation has been in pipeline for quite some time, creating lots and lots of rumors. The latest rumor comes from CBM and they claim that they have received three pages of the script given to them by a Marvel source.

“The Marvel source says the pages were made available to "give an idea of how Starnge is placed within the MCU/chronological timeline." The following text is paraphrased from the original script pages:

"Nick Fury and SHIELD locate a strong power reading from a mountain in Tibet. Another person is in the same room with Fury and also sees a green-like radiation pulsing from the mountain and asks Fury is it's terrestrial. Fury says it is being analyzed but he hasn't seen such a power surge since Bruce Banner had an accident with Gamma Rays. Fury concludes by saying the Black Widow is in the vicinity and will investigate but until she sends a report, SHIELD is not sure what the proper response is at the moment.”

"Then, the third page starts with Doctor Strange begin tired and goes to lay down for the night and in the morning is awakened by his trusted partner Wong. Strange is brought some coffee. Strange sits up and has some menial banter with Wong and grabs a newspaper. The first headline on the paper talks about a giant earthquake in New York, while the second headline says that Tony Stark is officially Iron Man. His response to the Stark headline is, 'Lucky bastard.'"

What is interesting is how the earthquake in New York headline seems to refer to The Incredible Hulk movie and the battle in Harlem. That page also seems to be near the beginning of Doctor Starnge movie but no clarification on where in the movie these pages take place were given."

Now it sounds cool and all that, but I have some reservation to the veracity of those pages. So they are going back in time? Why? “MCU/chronological timeline”? I don’t think so, there is absolutely no reason for the film to start at the end of Iron Man 1. Either these pages are false, or they are from a very early script, I think Marvel has done enough comics and films to know how to write a good story.

One other possibility is that Doctor Strange already existed as Sorcerer Supreme since the second Hulk film and that through the MCU timeline we was an observer of the events. He watched the events of the first Iron Man, The Hulk, The Avengers and Thor and only now he is making his screen debut.  

Personally I think they are going to play it safe and they are going to do a simple origin story with Strange losing his surgeon capabilities because of the car crash, finds or is found by the sorcerer supreme, goes to Tibet, trains and then because no Marvel film is without some action, he fights Baron Mordo, defeats him and at the very end we see Dormammu or something along those lines.

But the story is set in the current Marvel Cinematic Universe and no travelling back in time to Iron Man 1.   

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