Doctor Strange Will Be A Origin Story

Last year or so a rumor began swirling around the web claiming that origins stories were a thing of the past for Marvel and that the first movie to let go of such constrictions was the upcoming Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The report was never officially confirmed, and now, while promoting the DVD and Blu-ray release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige addressed and shut down the rumor.

"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 told IGN. "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."

Doctor Strange will be Marvel's first foray into the world of magic after successfully establishing the world of science, but Feige assures that the transition will be made easy because we'll experience these new elements as Strange does and "to a certain extent" with Rachel McAdams yet unknown role.

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And speaking of McAdams, "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," Feige explained, "but Doctor Strange, without a doubt, is the character we follow through the movie."

So far Marvel's casting choices have been relatively safe when it comes to gender, but for the role of Doctor Strange's male mentor, The Ancient One, Marvel and director Scott Derrickson have tapped Tilda Swinton to play the part. The actress is known for her chameleon-like performances whether it be in Orlando, Trainwreck, Snowpiercer, or The Grad Budapest Hotel, so it's unclear if she will play the character as a woman or a man. "I think you'll see us playing it in ways that she's played other characters that way" said Feige. "Clearly she's a woman, but it is very ambiguous in her portrayal."

Production is scheduled to begin this coming November in London for a November 4, 2016 release.

Source - IGN

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