In Kathmandu, the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots enter the secret compound Kamar-Taj and behead its librarian. A sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, was released in May 2022. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. The film grossed over $677 million worldwide and was met with praise for its cast, visual effects, and musical score. Principal photography on the film began in November 2015 in Nepal, before moving to England and Hong Kong, and wrapping up in New York City in April 2016.ĭoctor Strange had its world premiere in Hong Kong on October 13, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 4, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. This gave Derrickson time to work on the script himself, for which he brought Cargill on to help. Cumberbatch was chosen for the eponymous role in December 2014, necessitating a schedule change to work around his other commitments. In June 2014, Derrickson was hired to direct, with Spaihts re-writing the script.

Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer were brought on board in June 2010 to write a screenplay. Various incarnations of a Doctor Strange film adaptation had been in development since the mid-1980s, until Paramount Pictures acquired the film rights in April 2005 on behalf of Marvel Studios. In the film, Strange learns the mystic arts after a career-ending car crash. Robert Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as neurosurgeon Stephen Strange along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. The film was directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with Jon Spaihts and C. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 14th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

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