Marvel now has a director for their upcoming Doctor Strange movie.
Dr. Strange is one of those Marvel Phase Three projects that we haven't heard a whole lot about, other than the fact that Kevin Feige is hot to make it happen and a recent mention in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However, Dr. Stephen Strange is now closer to live-action than he's been since that better than you've heard it is TV movie from 1978.
Scott Derrickson, who has some supernatural cred thanks to Sinisterand The Exorcism of Emily Rose will direct the Dr. Strange movie. The director confirmed the news with a tweet that leaves little to the imagination:
My next movie will be STRANGE: pic.twitter.com/5pdbO6Op6j
— Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson) June 3, 2014
Interestingly enough, the rather reliable folks at Badass Digest have heard that Jared Leto is somebody that Marvel "likes" for the title role. It's quite early in the process for them to be thinking about casting, especially since none of the trades have even reported a writer attached to the movie just yet.
Dr. Strange is the story of Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, an arrogant surgeon who turns to magic for enlightenment after he loses the use of his hands. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (the same team that created Spider-Man) in 1963, the early Doctor Strange stories are wonderlands of weirdness, anchored by Steve Ditko's incredible psychedelic dreamscapes, and Kevin Feige has said that he'd like the film to take a similar tone.
We expect we'll see Doctor Strange hit screens some time in 2017. You know what would be great? If Marvel took a creepier approach than usual with this one and dropped it on the calendar in October instead of as a big summer blockbuster. We can dream, right?
Source: Variety
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