After releasing a teaser poster for it earlier today, Marvel Studios has finally conjured up a trailer for their fourteenth(!) film, Doctor Strange! Directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister), this mystical extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe arrives in theaters this November 4th. Without further adieu, I give you the first cinematic glimpse of the Sorcerer Supreme himself…
By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth indeed! While it entirely fits within the Marvel aesthetic, the magical and mind-bending (as well as reality-bending) imagery looks pretty damn great. We’ve been told the script had an almost pseudo-Lord of Illusions vibe, so it will be interesting to see if any such darker elements have made it into the final film. Judging off of what is shown here, the possibility is certainly there, at least.
There’s not much to go on in the way of plot still, aside from Dr. Stephen Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) maiming-accident and first encounters with Baron Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), but that’s all we need at this stage. The point of this trailer is to intrigue audiences and I suspect this trailer will do just that. For now, this looks like a winner.
Still, many questions remain. Is McAdams playing Clea or Night Nurse, as both have been rumored. Hell, perhaps she is both! Will Mordo turn on Strange and The Ancient One before the end of the film? Exactly which big Strange nemesis is “Hannibal” star Mads Mikkelsen portraying? Nightmare? The Dread Dormmamu? Someone else entirely? Who is B-movie action star Scott Adkins playing? A friend or a foe? I guess we’ve got a ways to go before any of these (and other) questions are answered.
Doctor Strange arrives in theaters on November 4th, 2016. The film is directed by Scott Derrickson, from a screenplay by Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Stuhlberg, Benedict Wong, Amy Landecker, and Scott Adkins.
