DOCTOR STRANGE's Place in the MCU Discussed by Kevin Feige
Marvel Studio's president Kevin Feige has been talking a lot about the upcoming slate of Marvel films, and just yesterday he discussed Doctor Strange, saying that the film is going to contain "mind-bending weirdness."
We now have some additional details on the Sorcerer Supreme and his place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to an interview that Feige did with Zap2it. There's going to be a whole new trend of origin stories coming to us in the third phase of Marvel's plan.
He tells the site that this "concept isn't something Marvel has overtly discussed, the fact the Avengers already exist as these other people get their superpowers is something the movie franchise will 'acknowledge to a certain degree more so in other films.'" He went on to use Strange as an example saying:
"Doctor Strange, for instance, is kind of [in his own world]. He's in New York, but he's a surgeon and he's got his own thing going on, and when he has to try to fix his hands he goes on another journey,"
Doctor Strange's story is going to be standalone film, but that doesn't mean it won't be connected to the rest of the universe. Feige says:
"All these movies are connected, so they inhabit -- as the comics did -- the same universe. Like Ant-Man, Doctor Strange lives in a world where aliens came out over Grand Central Station. Again, he also is a brain surgeon. When he's in the operating room, he's not thinking about those other things. He's working on what he's working on."
Feige went on to offer an interesting tease about the plans for future origin stories, saying, "Ant-Man and Panther and Captain Marvel going forward -- assuming they're all chronological -- will have that as a backdrop, which to us is fun."
He clarified this in a separate interview with io9 when he said, "assuming they're all chronological. Certainly we could [set another one in the past]. There are no rules. I think the majority of them will be chronological, but not all of them necessarily."
Doctor Strange is being directed by Scott Derrickson and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It will be released in theaters on November 4th, 2016.