Marvel’s Use of 3D in DOCTOR STRANGE Film Will Bend People's Minds
Last night the first trailer for director Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange was released, and it was amazing to see footage from a film that I've been waiting so long to see. After watching the trailer a few times it looks better than I could have hoped, and I'm excited to see more.
Now, even though Marvel has released most of their films in 3D, they aren’t really pushing the envelope on them. They’ve been doing it just to do it so that Disney can get that extra cash in their pocket. It sounds like Doctor Strange might actually be using the 3D to help immerse audiences in the world of the Sorcerer Supreme and serve the story that the film will tell.
During an interview with Collider, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige spoke about using 3D to bring the magical world of Doctor Strange to life.
"Yes, as a matter of fact. We were in VFX reviews the other day, one of the first ones for that movie — we just wrapped, we finished in New York… we did one of the first reviews and it was pretty exciting. It was pretty cool in terms of how 3D can serve that story. You know, sometimes 3D is a tool, like it is in Civil War, a tool of – another toy in the sandbox of how the Russos (Joe and Anthony) can present this movie, then there are times like what Disney is putting out with The Jungle Book – it’s certainly gonna be the case with Doctor Strange – that it serves the storytelling, that it advances the storytelling. And hopefully, it helps bend people’s minds even more than with just the flat screen."
After seeing the trailer, is easy to imagine that Doctor Strange would be incredibly fun to play with in the third dimension. There are a lot of possibilities for the filmmaking team to get creative with this property, and I can see it naturally work with 3D. Seeing a Marvel film in 3D has never made the movie any better for me, but that could change with Doctor Strange if the 3D effect is properly used, and it sounds like they know what they want to do with it.
Doctor Strange opens in theaters on November 4th.