Why DOCTOR STRANGE Could be Adapting Parts of the Comic Book Mini Series 'Strange: Beginnings and Endings'


The Doctor is in! Marvel Studios' worst kept secret over the past year-plus finally received an official release date nearly five months after Scott Derrickson was hired as the director of Doctor Strange. In those months since Derrickson boarded the project, its been in development and teases by the director imply that the supernatural side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be weird and colorful.

After running through nearly every actor name fans could manipulate into looking like Doctor Strange on Photoshop, Marvel seems to have found an actor for the good Doctor. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is reportedly in talks for the leading role and even though he is 38, he is only two years younger than the previous frontrunner Joaquin Phoenix (who is 40).

Cumberbatch looks like he is closer to 28 than 38 so getting straight to the point, some fans have expressed their disapproval of Cumberbatch because he looks too young. Okay, sure he does, but he also will age into the role over the course of his eventual multi-picture deal.

Rumors have claimed Doctor Strange won't be the traditional origin film the super hero movie genre is accustomed to. While this remains to be seen as truth, there will be some origin story aspects of Doctor Strange and, in my opinion, it could follow an adapted version of writer J. Michael Straczynski's Doctor Strange: Beginnings and Endings. This six-issue mini series retold the origin of Dr. Stephen Strange and had him as a younger, brash and cocky surgeon. 

Just as in his original comic book origin tale from the 60s, Strange injuries his hands and embarks on a path to find a way to reclaim his surgeon glory. To make a long story short, he finds his answer but in the form of becoming the Master of the Mystical Arts... Doctor Strange. Even if Doctor Strange is not a full blown origin tale, there will be a sequence telling the back story of Dr. Strange and how be becomes Doctor Strange. 'Beginnings and Endings' is great comic book content to pull from.

Regardless of if any of that happens in the movie or not, every Doctor Strange fan (old and new) need to read Beginnings and Endings because it's a great read about Strange's rise, fall and rise again.

Doctor Strange releases in theaters on November 4, 2016.



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