Kevin Feige Offers Details on Mads Mikkelsen's Villainous Role in DOCTOR STRANGE

We've known for some time now that Mads Mikkelsen will be playing the villain in Scott Derrickson's Doctor Strange. We don't exactly know who he'll be playing yet, but he is the main villain in the story. During an interview with EW, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige talked about the film and the scary villain that it will introduce:

“We will take audiences through sort of a guide to the multiverse, other dimensions, and there are amazing things out there — wonders that are going to be hopefully visually extremely interesting and unique to this movie, but there are also very scary things in these other dimensions.”

Feige goes on to explain that it's the job of sorcerers like Strange and The Ancient One, who is played by Tilda Swinton, to protect humanity from these “scary things.” So how does Mikkelsen's character fit into the story? 

“Mads’ character is a sorcerer who breaks off into his own sect. [He] believes that the Ancient One is just protecting her own power base and that the world may be better off if we were to allow some of these other things through.”

Feige will not say who the villain is yet, and according to him, no one has guessed who it is. Executive producer Stephen Broussard says:

“I’ve seen lots of names thrown around. No one has quite picked the name that we’ve chosen for him. It would be fun to conceal that, if we can.”

It was previously rumored that Dormammu would be the main villain in the film. Nothing was ever confirmed, though, so the villain's identity remains a mystery. Who do you think the villain will be? 

To check out some images that were released for the film earlier today, click here.