Announced at Comic Con back in July, Scott Derrickson‘s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is set to bring a little terror into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Marvel’s Kevin Feige wants to make sure you don’t go into the theater in 2021 with the wrong set of expectations. He clarifies in a new chat that the sequel isn’t “necessarily” a horror film.
Speaking at the New York Film Academy, Feige explained, “Multiverse of Madness is the greatest title we’ve ever come up with, by the way. I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a horror film, but it’ll be a big MCU film with scary sequences in it. I mean, there are horrifying sequences in Raiders that I as a little kid would [cover my eyes] when their faces melted. Or Temple of Doom, of course, or Gremlins, or Poltergeist. These are the movies that invented the PG-13 rating, by the way. They were PG and then they were like, ‘We need another [rating].’”
“But that’s fun. It’s fun to be scared in that way, and not a horrific, torturous way, but a way that is legitimately scary – because Scott Derrickson is quite good at that – but scary in the service of an exhilarating emotion,” he added.
Benedict Cumberbatch will be back as the title character, with Elizabeth Olsen co-starring as Scarlet Witch. Doctor Strange will enter the Multiverse of Madness on May 7, 2021.
