Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange.

there would be some meta-irony in Clooney being Dr. Strange (similar to the meta-irony of Downey playing Tony Stark), he has the look/hair, he's made a career out of playing lovably smug assholes who are also capable of doing good (ie, the Dr. Strange origin story), etc. It'd be fun to see him against a backdrop of psychedelic weirdness. It's true I can't really picture him delivering some of the requisite "BY THE HOARY HOSTS OF HOGGOTH" dialogue but whatever that's minor.

RAG OTM. I think Strange has to be something of a cold fish, at least initially - Clooney wants to be loved too much.

I initially misread soref's post as Michael Jackson would have been a good Dr Strange.

cumberbatch is a fine actor with a terrible name

"Cumberbatch" is classic, but "Benedict" in front of that is even more classic, several more posh middle names would make it even better. "Tuppence" is classic too.

Also I cant imagine Clooney having the right nimble wizardly posturing talents that Cumberbatch could probably pull off. Or pulling off that sort of Vincent Price hamminess straight enough.

cumberbatch is a fine actor who is a bit of a prat and takes a lot of roles which fall within a core persona and thus mb don't really demonstrate much 'acting' per se. good in 12 years a slave i thought

Anyone would think he was the only posh actor in the world, pretty much all of the English ones are these days.

yeah f uck tha obvious poshos e.g. tom hiddleston eddie redmayne plus more covert ones e.g. dominic west damian lewis

... and that's just the ones who went to Eton.

Give me a posho any day over some of the venal Thatcherite cockney wanker stereotypes taking up space in the upper reaches of the British acting establishment.

Don't know too much about Turing outside the obvious but I enjoyed the Imitation Game, I don't see Cumberbatch convey emotional vulnerability too often (/ever) and I wasn't sure he could pull it off but he did.

venal Thatcherite cockney wanker stereotype does sound strongly revolting and while being one is sort of more of a daily choice than is being a posho it shouldn't discourage the general denunciation of poshos

Was Cumberbatch's performance as Turing better than working class Derek Jacobi (just checked his wiki hoping he was going to be to make this thing even more 'fun' than it already is, love how his wiki actually states "His family was working class" with a ref to a link to an interview he gave to The Guardian that doesn't work)?

"His servants were working class."

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I love that they're going with his real beard. My beard is also a sparsely populated garden of fluff that's thinner than my eyebrow hair, so this magazine cover has just helped drain a fairly substantial reservoir of self-doubt that I've kept dammed up for years

Good thing you don't have the launch codes, right?

I'm not very fond of Marvel these days so I'm a little bit annoyed that they're doing the property of theirs I like the best and with a promising cast. But I'm curious because I'm sure Marvel will know this requires a stylistic departure from their previous films and I wonder if they can do it. There's little doubt that this will rely heavily upon cgi for valid reasons, so it'll be difficult.

That's straight up the Soul Stone in his Eye of Agamotto piece

Although that raises the question: how did like 4 of the 6 of the Infinity Gems/Stones wind up on Earth at the same time and the Living Tribunal or Eternity or even Death don't show up and be like WTF PAUSE

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first trailer due next week...

In the climactic astral battle he will overcome fresh injuries to the broken hands that ended his surgical career, save the world and BE REDEEMED.

I like Doc's hand gestures. Magic on "The Magicians" revolves around sequenced gesturing. Makes it fun to watch, like voguing, or working a Rubik's Cube. Doc's flowery spell language is a treat, though. Lots of '70s Marvel alliteration.

Countdown to some conservative concerned parents group boycotting the movie for teaching kids gang signs.

david blaine lookin motherfucker

his head looks waaaayyyyyyyyyyy too big for his body, it's disconcerting

After learning the ways of The Force, Stephen Straangebatch walks around Greenwich Village in civilian clothes, sees a young man making odd and aggressive hand signals, and sets his shoes on fire for lulz. [14]

should've been Clooney

I heard he recently showed up at a comic store in costume.

almost as stoked for this as my mom

(is stoked for this)

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People are guessing Mikkelsen = Magus? Which seems a weird choice for a Dr. Strange villain. I'm guessing a redesigned Dormammu (or like a pre-Dormammu Dormammu).

his makeup is rad

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfIlvvEXIAAnfUa.jpg

Yeah, see, it's like Dormammu flames crackling underneath his skin.

I heard he recently showed up at a comic store in costume.

He was filming around the corner from JHU.

surely that's Baron Mordo?

No, Chiwetel Ejiofor is playing Mordo.

Although I'm holding out hope that he's playing Zom.

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By the moons of Munnopor, we have a trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwcSki7r9cQ

This had me grinning like an idiot by about the halfway mark.

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So is this a Serenity spin-off?

well that certainly looks like Inception

is there any look that tilda swinton can't effortlessly carry off? this looks like it'll be fun for sure

xpost But remember how Inception did that shit for like five minutes and then Nolan pretty much forgot to capture any kind of visual dream logic for the rest of the movie? This thing won't be like that thing.

otm - inception ended up being way less trippy than i was hoping it would be

fuckin' nolan

I'm hoping that half the running time will be like Ant-Man's voyage into the Microverse.

like all trailers now, that trailer sounds like inception too

it actually looks like a mash-up of Inception and Batman Begins tbrr

BWWAAAAAH......BWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Waaaaitaminute...so Marvel has specifically linked that Microverse sequence from Ant-Man with doings in the Doctor Strange movie. What if Mikkelsen's unknown villain is Psycho-Man? Again, weird choice for a Doctor Strange villain. But possible.

But probably not.

Finally, we will learn how Dr. Strange became Spider-man.