WandaVision: More details on the scrapped Doctor Strange cameo

Up till the very finish, Marvel followers have been anticipating Physician Unusual (Benedict Cumberbatch) to show up in WandaVision, however as we all know, the Sorcerer Supreme did not present. Because the Disney+ collection will immediately lead into DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS, this expectation wasn’t unwarranted, actually, it had been the plan from the very starting.

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Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed {that a} Physician Unusual cameo was within the works for the WandaVision finale last month and that that they had even finalized a take care of Benedict Cumberbatch to return, however on the finish of the day, they determined that they did not wish to shift focus away from Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen). In a Rolling Stone function printed final month which is now out there on-line, WandaVision head author Jac Schaeffer spilled just a few extra particulars on what may have been.

The plan once I got here on board was that there would, on the finish of the collection, be a handoff, and that Dr. Unusual’s participation would quantity to primarily a brief cameo. So early outlines had various variations of the 2 of them [Wanda and Dr. Strange] form of driving off into the sundown collectively. And it didn’t really feel fairly proper. We needed to satisfy Wanda’s company and autonomy inside this specific story. So it did really feel slightly tacked on. One other downside was, if Dr. Unusual reveals up at simply the tip, the place was he this complete time? I did love writing variations of Dr. Unusual, variations on these closing beats. It was a pleasure to jot down for him. There have been variations the place she was flying previous town limits after which encountered Dr. Unusual, that form of factor.

Schaeffer added that one in every of her favorite concepts for inserting Physician Unusual into WandaVision was “that within the Nexus industrial [in Episode Seven], it will form of be a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo, a fast picture of Dr. Unusual because the pharmacist within the background. I used to be very impressed by Combat Membership, when Brad Pitt’s character is on the TV within the lodge — like, for those who’re wanting carefully you’d see it for only a second. We have been like, ‘The Nexus industrial is her unconscious. What if Unusual is within the background and attempting to achieve her?’ However finally we determined in favor of Wanda’s personal story.” With Physician Unusual out of the image, Kevin Feige stated that they needed to reconceive how the pair meet up in Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, however that led to “a greater ending on WandaVision than we initially considered, and a greater storyline in Dr. Unusual. And that’s often the way it works, which is to put the chess items the way in which you need them to go in a basic vogue, however all the time be prepared and open to shifting them round to higher serve every particular person one.“

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Manufacturing on Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, which was directed by Sam Raimi, wrapped up earlier this yr, and Elizabeth Olsen has teased that the sequel is a “bonkers film” and that “they’re undoubtedly going for that horror present vibe.” I am down. Along with Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen, Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity additionally stars Benedict Wong as Wong, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Karl Mardo, Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez. The movie is slated to hit theaters on March 25, 2022.