'Doctor Strange' release date news: Director says film will introduce fans to the Marvel Multiverse
Scott Derrickson, director of Marvel's upcoming film "Doctor Strange," says that the movie will be introducing fans to the Marvel Multiverse, which could mean a lot of possible storylines for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to follow.
In a post-San Diego Comic-Con panel interview, Derickson told Comicbook.com: "What the comics did was, they brought with Doctor Strange an extra dimension into psychadelia, mysticism, and spirituality and all these very 60's things and broke open the Marvel comic book universe into the Marvel multiverse."
He went on to say that "Doctor Strange" will do the same to the movie universe, and that it will introduce the MCU to the Multiverse.
This could mean big things for the future of Marvel. With the introduction to the Multiverse, Marvel would be able to introduce a whole array of stories that come from the comics without messing with the continuity of the current MCU.
There were rumors back then that FOX was planning to make a deal with Marvel in order to share characters from their X-Men Universe, and with the Multiverse in the mix, they could simply explain that the current MCU just existed in a world without mutants, and having a multi-dimensional crossover between characters would make perfect sense.
There's also the possibility to adapt "The House of M" storyline, a comic about an alternate universe where mutants were the dominant species and homo sapiens became the minority. The movies can even adapt the "Marvel Zombies" arc where an entire dimension had all of the heroes turned into brain-eating zombies.
"Doctor Strange" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange, Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baron Mordo, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer (the Night Nurse), Benedict Wong as Wong, and Mads Mikkelsen as the villain Kaecilius.
The movie will hit theaters Nov. 4.
