It looks like Marvel isn’t letting a little bit of public turmoil slow down their well-oiled machine. According to Variety, they have a director for the Phase 3 debut of Doctor Strange – the Sorcerer Supreme (I hope Taco Bell does a cross promotion for the movie – that would be awesome, and dangerously delicious).
According to Variety sources, the lucky filmmaker is Scott Derrickson, who is mostly known recently as a horror director, but also gave us the big budget snooze fest remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. The Horror background is interesting and possibly gives us an insight in to Feige’s thoughts about the kind of movie he wants it to be.
According to Variety’s crack team of Comic Book Researchers:
The comic revolved around a former neurosurgeon who serves as the “Sorcerer Supreme” — the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats. Strange made his first appearance in the 1963 comic series “Strange Tales” and would go on to have his own comic series and would appear in several other comics that included “The Fantastic Four,” “Spider-Man” and Nick Fury.
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The pic will be produced by Kevin Feige who repeatedly said how badly he wants to get a Dr. Strange movie made over the years. Executive producers on the project are Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Alan Fine, Stan Lee, and Stephen Broussard.
I am still relatively bullish on Marvel’s short term future (next 3 to 5 years) even though I am sorely disappointed in the loss of Edgar Wright on Ant-Man. Now they just need to get someone interesting cast and we can start second guessing everything.
I will go on record and recklessly say they are hoping to cast Keanu Reeves, based solely on him being the lead in The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Who do you think is going to be cast? Let us know in the comments.