Doctor Strange (2016)

[andrew8798]

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios is negotiating with Jon Spaihts to write the script for Doctor Strange, the franchise-launching film which will be directed by Scott Derrickson. Doctor Strange was hatched by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko during that Marvel Comics heyday of the early 1960s. He’s a neurosurgeon who becomes Sorcerer Supreme, protecting Earth against magical and mystical threats with powers of sorcery, mysticism, and martial arts. Marvel’s Kevin Feige is producing.

Spaihts is writing Universal’s The Mummy reboot as well as the New Regency alien invasion pic The Darkest Hour and The Black Hole. His script Passengers has Keanu Reeves attached and made the 2007 Black List, but he is probably best known in the genre crowd for being the first writer of Prometheus, which rebooted Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise.

-Deadline

[The Tank]

I don't see anything in here about casting, so whoopdy-frickin-doo so far.

[Talent Name]

Doctor Strange should be played by Oded Fehr, the man looks like him and if they go ahead with the movie and make it a franchise I hope Baron Mordo is the first villain followed by Shuma Gorath

[Ryback on a Pole!]

I'm surprised Dr. Strange is getting a movie because really.... he's a very boring character. He's okay as the go-too guy for advice on magical matters but whenever he takes anything close to centre stage or hell, appears for more than a few pages, I find myself rapidly losing interest.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Jun 18, 2014 19:58:13 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

I'm surprised Dr. Strange is getting a movie because really.... he's a very boring character. He's okay as the go-too guy for advice on magical matters but whenever he takes anything close to centre stage or hell, appears for more than a few pages, I find myself rapidly losing interest.

Dr. Strange: The Oath was an incredible series that shows he can carry the workload easily.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I was actually kind of hoping that C. Robert Cargill would be picked to write... he wrote the script for "Sinister" (also directed by Derrickson) and he knows the background material.

Cargill used to review movies at Spill.com under the name Carlyle:

[Joker]

Jun 18, 2014 19:03:13 GMT -5 Talent Name said:

Doctor Strange should be played by Oded Fehr, the man looks like him and if they go ahead with the movie and make it a franchise I hope Baron Mordo is the first villain followed by Shuma Gorath

As much as I am a fan of He Who Sleeps I think Dormammu & Umar would be a more logical follow up to Mordo, heck they could involve the Dread Lord in the first movie as a background player.

Shuma-Gorath ideally requires 2 movies devoted him to really beef up what he is and what a threat he should be portrayed as, Shuma is a universal threat and needs serious plot devoted to him to make him work as a universal disaster, otherwise he just becomes a one eyed squid monster.

[andrew8798]

As Marvel finalizes surprises for its Comic-Con panel on Saturday, the rumor mill regarding “Doctor Strange” has reached a fever pitch and the actor who has been mentioned most often for the coveted superhero role is none other than three-time Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix, multiple individuals close to the casting process have told TheWrap.

Representatives for Marvel and Phoenix had no comment.

While insiders caution there is no deal in place yet, multiple sources say Phoenix is in consideration and has had discussions about the movie.

Many would assume that Phoenix is one of the last actors in Hollywood who would be willing to lock himself into a potential long-term deal, but it's possible that he's not being asked to sign the same staggering multi-picture contract that other actors in the MCU have.

Phoenix had previously been courted for the role of Lex Luthor in WB's “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and it's believed that those talks would not have gotten as far as they did if Phoenix had no interest in doing a comic book movie.

-CBM

And

@tonythenunes

Hey @scottderrickson, Joaquin Phoenix was shopping for some Dr. Strange comics at Sarge's Comics in New London, CT last week. Is he the Dr.?

[The Tank]

I AM DISGUSTED AND I SORELY HOPE THIS RUMOR IS JUST THAT.

Seriously, I'm struggling to think of people I want in this role less than...him.

[Joker]

I could see him playing Mordo.

[hossfan]

I'm curious to see if they have the first movie focus on Strange's origin. It is a pretty good one for a super hero, but here in 2014 there might be some resistance to a story so filled with cliches.

[543Y2J]

I like Phoenix don't get me wrong, but Marvel this is your guy (in my ideal casting scenario) right here



I can imagine him fitting well into the universe, he has a likeability factor and yet also has a strong and prominent darker edge as an actor (and in portraying characters), is believable yet can also do large and spectacular, he seems like a cool guy who would be loyal to future movies if offered the right contract, is still moderately young by actor terms and has plenty of years left in him, has experience but yet hasn't had a "mainstream" break out role in a major blockbuster hollywood summer movie (that MCU is centered around mostly doing) to truly put him at the top of the actors in the game (where I feel he deserves to be).

I could go on but he is my ideal pick

[Deleted]

Oh thank god it's not the other writer who rewrote the Prometheus script and made it awful. Also Joaquin Phoenix is probably by far one of the best actors today. So I don't mind. I don't know anything about Doctor Strange but based on Joaquin Phoenix acting ability he's probably one of the best choices

[Legion]

Marvel should likely be careful here, or they may end with another Ed Norton scenario.

A good choice in terms of acting ability, but not the most 'screwed in' of people

[Talent Name]

Jul 26, 2014 7:41:27 GMT -5 543Y2J said:

I like Phoenix don't get me wrong, but Marvel this is your guy (in my ideal casting scenario) right here



I can imagine him fitting well into the universe, he has a likeability factor and yet also has a strong and prominent darker edge as an actor (and in portraying characters), is believable yet can also do large and spectacular, he seems like a cool guy who would be loyal to future movies if offered the right contract, is still moderately young by actor terms and has plenty of years left in him, has experience but yet hasn't had a "mainstream" break out role in a major blockbuster hollywood summer movie (that MCU is centered around mostly doing) to truly put him at the top of the actors in the game (where I feel he deserves to be).

I could go on but he is my ideal pick

There are a few issues with Jake, one being Strange is a pompous, arrogant, egomaniac basically a Magical Iron Man and I don't feel Jake could pull that off. Strange also is on the older side even when his book started off. I still stand with my choice of Oded Fehr the man even looks like Strange, is kind of an unknown to some and isn't afraid to do stunts

[andrew8798]

So nothing was confirmed by Marvel at Comic Con

[pegasuswarrior]

Doctor Strange
starring Sid Haig
directed by Rob Zombie

[Legion]

Pretty shite panel tbh.

They let DC steal this year

[andrew8798]

So the movie won't be a origin story

[Joker]

Oddly enough they have to kind of make Strange oldish as he is a surgeon before he became a magician and to become a surgeon takes years of education and then climbing the work ladder in medical environments.

So at the youngest he could be minimum 30 (then he needs to learn all the magic stuff) so add another 2-5 years for that and you are looking at 35 +. In my opinion.