'Doctor Strange' Movie Rumors: Story Not To Be About Hero's Origin, Will Have Doctor Enter As Full-Fledge Sorcerer? [VIDEO]
While Marvel has usually introduced their characters in origin stories where audiences see how they developed their powers, it seems like they may go a different route with their next introduced hero.
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According to an interview with Devin Faraci at Badass Digest published on Friday, Doctor Strange will not be an origin story, but the hero will enter the movie already a full-fledged Sorcerer Supreme.
"So, for Doctor Strange they've had a script in-house forever. It is a pretty standard origin story for Doctor Strange. It's got baron Mordo as the bad guy. That's all gone," Faraci said.
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"Marvel's new thing is no more origin stories. So, Doctor Strange movie no longer has an origin. It begins in medias res. It has Doctor Strange already established as the Sorcerer Supreme. It is a totally new script."
This could be the reason why Marvel brought in Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts to re-work whatever script they had already. It is also a bold move for a studio who is trying to introduce this character to audiences who may not be as familiar with them as comic book fans are. The origin story has not always raked in the money that the sequels, but has instilled an idea of the hero and developed fans.
It isn't the first time though that a studio has tried to just throw viewers into a superhero world as it worked for Warner Bros. with Batman Begins and Man of Steel, who both used flashbacks to tell the origin and most recently with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
As of now, there isn't much known about the movie outside of Spaihts writing and Deliver Us From Evil director Scott Derrickson directing. Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, and most recently Joaquin Phoenix as the Sorcerer Supreme.
Watch the rest of the interview below.
