MARVEL'S Doctor Strange - November 4, 2016*

Marvel are planning a Dr. Strange film... http://variety.com/2014/film/news/m...rector-scott-derrickson-exclusive-1201173055/

A sadly misinformed article appeared in the Guardian, written by someone obviously not au fait with iconic Marvel characters... http://www.theguardian.com/culture/...vel-dr-strange-have-we-reached-peak-superhero

 

Viggo Mortenson As Dr. Strange...please!

 

Yes!

Assuming that Brian Blessed isn't available... (joke)...although he has boxed with the Dalai Lama.

 

I'll watch anything by them...love 'em.

 

seconded! great actor! he looks like my Uncle!

 

Maybe he's considered overexposed now, but I think Benedict Cumberbatch would make a great Dr. Strange.

 

Between Benedict, Viggo and Michael's uncle then (how old is your uncle Michael, I have the feeling that he must be very well preserved?).

 

65...

 

Thanks. Two years older than me then...hmm...where and when are the auditions I wonder!. Hire me and reduce the budget considerably! Well a little at any rate.

 

you're welcome!
...wish I had a pic of my Uncle...the resemblance is uncanny!

 

Seriously though, I hope that they can replicate the atmosphere from those comics, the architecture (based on San Francisco?) the weirdness. There's a building here in Glasgow that always reminds me of Dr Strange comics, the Hatrack... http://www.discoverglasgow.org/victorian-hatrack-building/4578200335 and here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8...!1e1!3m2!1s2QhL4HJA-j5xi7HkLU9Zig!2e0!6m1!1e1

 

Sounds like a great idea...

 

By the Sons of Satannish! Let this film not be an embarrassment!

 

I'm with you, that's my big fear.

 

I wish they'd make a Defenders movie. I have a dream cast in mind, though one which defies age and mortality:

Doctor Strange - Ethan Hawke
Nighthawk - Tom Cruise
Hellcat - Amy Adams
Son of Satan - Robert Redford
Gargoyle - CGI voiced by Ernest Borgnine
Devil-Slayer - Bradley Cooper (THE COOP!)
Valkryie - Charlize Theron

They'd fight The Six-Fingered Hand. Lots of occult type stuff. Have J.M. DeMatteis be a consultant. IT WOULD BE AWESOME!

 

Ant-Man and now Dr. Strange are Marvel scraping the bottom of the barrel, at least as far as the general public will be concerned, I predict.

 

Marvel Announces Black Panther, Captain Marvel & A Lot Of Other Movies

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/marvel-black-panther-captain-marvel_n_6062940.html

 

Marvel will have truly scraped the bottom of the barrel when Shuma-Gorath makes an appearance in their cinematic universe... (and that's coming from a long time fan of this particular giant tentacled creature!)

 

The Inhumans.
No actors mentioned.

 

Unfortunately I neglected a lot of Dr. Strange in my comic book days. I will say that sometimes, I think that instead of live action combined with heavy CGI, some of these movies would benefit from being fully to partly animated, a la Beowulf. If it saves any money (and I'm not sure it does), they could use it for some of the script/plot development and end up with a better picture.

 

If they can come close to the atmosphere of the Ditko era Dr. Strange it will be some movie. I hope Mr. Steve Ditko earns a few coins from this. He has not been treated well for all his work in creating the characters and making them have the value they have. He's an old man now and deserves much better than he's got.

Dr. Strange , for me, is his best character. I'm sure many will disagree with that but to each their own. Looking forward to the movie. I hope it is done as a serious movie with no tongue-in-cheek.

 

Great actor, not to sure about the director Scott Derrickson:

Deliver Us from Evil
I Sinister
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Exorcism of Emily Rose

 

It's hard to say how Ditko's been treated. He's been given plenty of opportunities to speak out, but has never done so. I really wish he'd consent to one interview before he's gone.

So far as Cumberbatch goes, I'm not too excited. He's suffering from overexposure and I was hoping they'd expand their casting choices a bit and put an Asian in the role.

 

Ditko himself would likely disagree with you about that. Based on what I've read about him (from people who've spoken to him as well as from his own writings) he believes he received what he earned, and that he is not entitled to anything more than that. And he most certainly is not willing to do anything to seek additional money for his various creations or work derived from them. He's an idiosyncratic man with a unique set of beliefs. If he wanted, there are several things he could easily do that would likely make him hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars. But he is not willing to do them because they contradict his values.

 

He’s not over-exposed. Sherlock is not nearly as well-seen as the vastly inferior Elementary, here in the states. He was a villain in the last Star Trek film, and he is Smaug in The Hobbit, and he’s played supporting roles in a handful of other films. I don’t see how that makes him over-exposed.

But, even if he was, I’m not big on assigning a negative spin on an actor, just because they’ve had some fame - hello, Robert Downey, jr! And, I don’t think anyone ever said, “Not another Sean Connery movie!!!! Arggg!!”

As to Ditko - yeah, the man needs to be properly recognised and remunerated. His Doctor Strange stories occupied a universe that probably could not have been recreated on the screen until the SFX processes evolved well-past the first ten years of CGI development. And, his Spider-Man stories are *still* being mined for gold by Sony. I still rue the day he left Marvel - I know he had issues with the company, but he needed a strong writer. His worst failing was thinking he could do what Stan Lee did. But, you could say that about a lot of classic artists, I guess, and I know they were not unjustified in being unhappy with the financial situation, or the rights to characters they created - but, that is a separate issue to what makes someone a good writer.