Doctor Strange
Before anyone gets confused, let me clarify that a TELEVISION MOVIE is not a big screen project – so, Peter Hooten starrer Dr. Strange (1978) doesn’t count in here. Again, the 1992 flick Doctor Mordrid was meant to be an adaptation of Doctor Strange but since the license to the character expired, they had to alter the lead character’s name and origin to some extent. So, that means Benedict Cumberbatch’ Doctor Strange will mark the live-action cinematic debut of the Sorcerer Supreme!
Early rumors about the movie suggested that it won’t show how the neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange becomes the Sorcerer Supreme since Marvel is tired of origin stories. But Marvel President Kevin Feige debunked the rumor in September saying that the character has got ‘one of the best, most classic, most unique origin stories of any hero’ – so why won’t they go for it? And the first leaked stills from the set of Doctor Strange in Nepal re-confirmed that they are definitely going for an origin story.
We haven’t got more than that on Cumberbatch’s portrayal of the character. But since they the movie is filming at the moment, we can expect something new every now and then.
On the next page – the last one of our list, a baddie we’ve all been waiting to see on live-action big screen!
