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Doctor Strange 2 announced.
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1 hour ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

It's not gonna be a prequel. Also, hopefully Vision stays dead and is just a figment of Wanda's imagination.

Knowing my luck he'll be back as the ghost of Jarvis

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1 hour ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

It's not gonna be a prequel. Also, hopefully Vision stays dead and is just a figment of Wanda's imagination.

It is going to be interesting how they play up the impact on Wanda's mental state due to all she experienced between Infinity War and Endgame.

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Just in case someone forgets there is a Doctor Strange 2 thread. :baiting:

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A few weeks ago, the trades reported that Spider-Man helmer Sam Raimi was in talks with Marvel Studios to replace Scott Derrickson as Doctor Strange in the Madness of the Multiverse's director. It feels like a match made in heaven, and the filmmaker joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe is something definitely worth getting excited about. 

Now, some fuel has been added to the fire as Raimi has dropped out of London's Monster Mania Con next month due to filming commitments. 

 



As far as we know, he's not currently working on anything else, so chances are Raimi is gong to be busy prepping the Doctor Strange sequel. Confirmation that the director is attached to the movie probably won't come our way until production officially begins, but In The Multiverse of Madness is definitely in safe hands with him following Derrickson's departure.

 

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Xochitl Gomez, the young actor who recently starred in Netflix’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” reboot, has joined the cast of Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”

 

Sam Raimi, whose highlights include the Tobey Maguire “Spider-Man” trilogy, is directing the sequel, which sees Benedict Cumberbatch return as the Sorcerer Supreme.

 

Plot details, as what has become de rigueur for Marvel entries, are being kept under wraps, so it’s unclear what role Gomez will be playing in the comic book sequel. Benedict Wong and Chiwetel Ejiofor are also expected to reprise their characters from 2016’s “Doctor Strange.” Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch is also joining the follow-up.

 

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Presumably Gomez won't be Nico Minoru since she was already cast with a Japanese actress below in the "Runaways" television show which like the Netflix shows is presumably within the scope of MCU lore.  She's also too young to be Strange's love interest Clea since Cumberbatch is 44 and Gomez is 14.  So I have no guess as to who she'll be...there aren't a ton of ongoing female characters in the Doctor Strange world.

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3 hours ago, fantastic_four said:

Presumably Gomez won't be Nico Minoru since she was already cast with a Japanese actress below in the "Runaways" television show which like the Netflix shows is presumably within the scope of MCU lore.  She's also too young to be Strange's love interest Clea since Cumberbatch is 44 and Gomez is 14.  So I have no guess as to who she'll be...there aren't a ton of ongoing female characters in the Doctor Strange world.

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I do like with some of this casting news they aren't telling us everything. Sometimes production surprises can be a fun experience, and we don't need to know until we see it.

:popcorn:

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On 10/19/2020 at 9:07 AM, fantastic_four said:

Presumably Gomez won't be Nico Minoru since she was already cast with a Japanese actress below in the "Runaways" television show which like the Netflix shows is presumably within the scope of MCU lore.  She's also too young to be Strange's love interest Clea since Cumberbatch is 44 and Gomez is 14.  So I have no guess as to who she'll be...there aren't a ton of ongoing female characters in the Doctor Strange world.

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Isn't America Chavez rumored to be in Multiverse of Madness? If she is indeed in the movie, then Gomez is most likely playing her.

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Today, Hollywood has finally recognized Raimi's talent at bringing comic book panels to the big screen, and he is slotted to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, an exciting opportunity to combine his passion for superheroes and horror in a major blockbuster installment. For years, though, the director has built a list of projects that were either passed on to other folks or were unfortunately either thrown in the garbage or, worse, doomed to development hell. Here are all the films based on comic books that Sam Raimi was, at one point, potentially supposed to helm.

 

Thor
Although Sam Raimi would not direct Spider-Man and reap the fruits of his labor for nearly a decade after releasing Darkman, his unorthodox take on the comic book superhero genre caught the attention of the biggest legend of the comic book superhero world. According to Raimi, Marvel's own Stan Lee complimented the film and took the burgeoning filmmaker out to lunch to discuss the possibility of working on a movie together. Raimi expressed his desire to bring the God of Thunder to the big screen and the two got to writing treatments together, but 20th Century Fox emphatically declined the pitch, stating that "comic books don't make good movies." Raimi has publically described the process of explaining the concept of a Thor movie to studio executives as "thrilling" and "hysterical."

 

Batman Forever

Sam Raimi had once tried and failed to secure the rights to a Batman movie, so he jumped at the opportunity to take Tim Burton's spot for the original franchise's third installment. However, the "cult" director wasn't considered the right fit for the direction of the series since he was still relatively unknown in the mainstream. The director's body of work was made up of dark, violent films that may have spooked Warner Bros. executives at a time when the studio was trying to move away from the controversial themes of Batman Returns to more kid-friendly imagery. Joel Schumacher got the job instead.

 

The Shadow
The Shadow, a mysterious detective hero that became an influential symbol of 1930s American pulp fiction and bears striking similarities to Raimi's own Darkman, was another property that the filmmaker tried to get his hands on in his early career. After the massive success of Spider-Man in 2004, Raimi tried once again to adapt the character in film form with his producer partner Joshua Denen and Batman franchise producer Michael E. Uslan. Screenwriter Siavash Farahani reportedly was working on a -script, but the first sign of trouble arrived when Sony let the rights to the character lapse in 2010. At one point, it was even rumored that Quentin Tarantino would direct the film instead, although Tarantino denied these talks. Finally, Raimi announced in 2012 that he was having trouble developing a proper -script and decided to put a stop to the project. The film would have been the second adaptation after the 1994 film The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin in the titular role.

 

Spider-Man 4
The troubled development history of Spider-Man 4 is perhaps the most well-known of Sam Raimi's unrealized projects. Geek outlets at the time reported on all the juicy details for the movie that was never produced, like John Malkovich being cast in the villainous role as the Vulture and Anne Hathaway playing Spider-Man's dangerous love interest Felicia Hardy, a.k.a. Black Cat. It was also heavily rumored that Bruce Campbell was going to play Mysterio, although storyboard artist Jeffrey Henderson has stated and revealed through his drawings that the villain would have been a minor role in a beginning joke montage showing all the villains Spidey had apprehended. According to Raimi himself, he left under "the most amicable and undramatic" of circumstances, claiming that he just couldn't promise Sony a well-made film under the deadline. The film's planned writer, James Vanderbilt, even went on to help write The Amazing Spider-Man reboot movies.

 

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