Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange.

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

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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)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfIkCWaXIAAbzf9.jpg

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.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/8/8b/Strange_Tales_Vol_1_156_031.jpg

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.

http://i66.tinypic.com/r8dvg2.png

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.

Is that the final trailer? Odd that there's no outer dimensional stuff. I generally don't like these films but I might see this, I like most of the cast but I doubt it will deliver on the psychedelia and juicy orientalism.

no it's a teaser trailer

It's basically the trailer for Batman Begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vak9ZLfhGnQ

Or, fair enough, just the first half. One of these days one of these movies will find a better way to just get past the origin stuff. I want to say Ant-man, of all things, was more sprightly in this regard than most of them. Or hell, Guardians of the Galaxy got it out of the way quickly.

love that effects shot at 1:21 and how it looks like it's a practical dolly zoom at first

They said a while back that Doctor Strange was going to be one of the rare 'origin story' MCU movies. Which is fair, since I wager the general public ain't that familiar.

I am 100% down for this

Eh, Guardians pretty much introduced an entire new universe and did OK. The Marvel movies still haven't even properly introduced/motivated/explained Thanos! Are they saving that lil the end?

From what I understand, he isn't showing up again until the next Avengers movie. So, yeah, basically.

Wonder if Marvel are going to do that thing where whichever character is getting a movie becomes extremely important across several comic titles.

I've never read the Dr. Strange comic, and superhero movies have pretty thoroughly alienated me at this point (last one I saw was Winter Soldier, or maybe Iron Man 3, can't remember which came out last) but this looks more like the Keanu Reeves Constantine movie, which I liked a lot, than anything else, so I think I might check it out.

xpost They're currently publishing an ongoing Doctor Strange title, which translates as 'extremely important' in Doctor Strange terms since that hasn't happened since the mid-90s.

Which just really dawned on me as I was reading your post and which now strikes me as really (pardon the pun) strange.

Dr Strange was fairly important to the second half of Bendis' Avengers run

Yeah, he's definitely been around, but I can't think of another consistently major Marvel character who's gone that long without their own title.

How did I not realize until now Tilda Swinton is playing the Ancient One? fuck yeah

xpost

Wonder if Marvel were a bit wary abt doing a new Dr Strange title after all that Amy Grant hoo-hah

Yeah, he's definitely been around, but I can't think of another consistently major Marvel character who's gone that long without their own title.

Black Panther and Ghost Rider both spring to mind as having a publication history at least as punctuated.

Also, without going too far into obscurity i.e. also film/tv properties, Howard The Duck, The Inhumans and Luke Cage/Power Man haven't exactly been in continuous publication either.

Black Panther didn't have an ongoing title in the '80s, true, but he hasn't otherwise gone more than a few years between relaunches. Ghost Rider (as a concept, since there have been several different Ghost Riders) doesn't have more than a few gaps in publication since the '70s.

Until recently, the Inhumans only had one short-lived ongoing series that didn't even focus on the most familiar cast of Inhuman characters.

Panther: 73-76, 77-79, 88, 91, 98-03, 05-08, 09-10, last week
Ghost Rider: 73-83, 90-98, 2001 mini, 2005 mini, 06-10?, non-Johnny Blaze book last year
Inhumans: 75-77, 98-99, 2000, 03-04, 14-15, current

In comparison Strange is in almost continuous publication until the 00s with only 3 minis outside of the latest book.

In terms of series publication, I'd say that the Inhumans are second-tier. Despite being a near-constant presence in the Marvel U since their inception, they never had a series that lasted longer than 12 issues until the last couple of years.

I am 100% down for this

How did I not realize until now Tilda Swinton is playing the Ancient One? fuck yeah

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