'Doctor Strange' Spoilers, Plot News: Kevin Feige Decides to Stick to Origin Story
Nowadays, it's all about superheroes in the film industry. While the audiences are busy watching their well-loved characters on screen, studios are too busy trying to think of which superhero they should focus next on building. Although a string of superhero movies would seemingly be flooding cinemas in the next four years, people are excited rather than saturated at this point. For Marvel, it has not even reached the pinnacle of its movies, as it is still on Phase 3 of its cinematic universe.
"Captain America: Civil War" just recently wrapped up, and depsite Marvel's jam-packed lineup, the comic books giant doesn't seem to want to waste time as it immediately jumped into production for "Doctor Strange." Dubbed among fans as the movie with an excellent line of cast, the film is led by "Sherlock" star Benedict Cumberbatch as "Doctor Strange," followed by Rachel McAdams as Cleo and Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One.
An interesting angle that fans wonder about revolves around the story line. Many superheroes have stepped away from origin stories, as it is easier for people to compare and reject it with every reboot. Case in point would be "Spider-Man" that chose to completely go a different direction rather than feature the usual adult Peter Parker in the past films. However, in a recent interview with IGN, Feige cleared that he is braving the origin story for "Doctor Strange."
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Feige shared, "For some reason people sometimes talked about how we're not doing an origin story, we're bored of origin stories. I think people are bored of origin stories they've seen before or origin stories that are overly familiar. Doctor Strange has one of the best, most classic, most unique origin stories of any hero we have, so why wouldn't we do that? That was sort of always the plan. How you tell that origin, perhaps there are ways to twist it or play with that, but for the most part, it's a gift when the comics have something with such clarity of story and of character. That doesn't always happen in the comics, and when it does, you use it." It may be not a bad move since the Doctor's past may not be as exhausted as others since the movie will have magic and mysticisms which are yet to be introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"Doctor Strange" is set to hit theaters on Nov. 4, 2016.
