Master of the Mystic Arts
Time for Some good news for a change.
It looks like there will be a Doctor Strange movie. This is the first comic I ever picked up, and I happened to read it in the 1970’s when the magazine was in the hands of Steve Englehart, Frank Brunner, Marshall Rogers, Jim Starlin, Paul Smith, Sal Buscema, Gene Colan, and especially Rudy Nebres of Conan fame.
Hollywood Reporter reports that Benedict Cumberbatch (whose name sounds like a Doctor Strange character anyway) is being asked to play the role: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/benedict-cumberbatch-star-doctor-strange-742079. Scott Derrickson is slated to direct.
If they do even half the good job they did with GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, with AVENGERS, with THOR, with CAPTAIN AMERICA, and with basically everything they’ve touched, then this will be my personal comicgeekmoviedom dream come true.
And yes, I know about DR MORDRED and yes, I saw the made-for-TV movie version where the Ancient One was turned into Merlin, and Baron Mardo into Morgan le Fay. I am hoping these will be better than that.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
