Marvel has reportedly found their Doctor Strange for Scott Derrickson’s forthcoming film based on the sorcerer supreme, and the choice couldn’t be better. Deadline broke the story, which is still developing…
Cumberbatch is coming off a Oscar run from The Imitation Game, but has the personaility that he could likely champion the Robert Downey JR-less leg of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Scott Derrickson is directing Doctor Strange and Jon Spaihts is writing the script for the pic (the first draft was penned by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer). Doctor Strange was hatched by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko during that Marvel Comics heyday of the early 1960s. He’s a neurosurgeon who becomes Sorcerer Supreme, protecting Earth against magical and mystical threats with powers of sorcery, mysticism, and martial arts. Marvel’s Kevin Feige is producing.
More as it develops…