DOCTOR STRANGE: Marvel Studios Head and Director Scott Derrickson Talk About Visual Influence of Artist Steve Ditko
If you haven't read the older Doctor Strange comics from the 60s then you're missing out on some of the greatest art ever seen in any comic book. Artist Steve Ditko drew one of the most ambitious looking comic books ever seen with trippy and psychedelic visuals throughout.
While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that Ditko's art style — from the 'Strange Tales' and early 'Doctor Strange' comics — are a big influence on Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE movie which is currently in production in England.
"When this comic appeared in the early ’60s, it really informed, in a way that is pretty amazing, a lot of the psychedelic ’60s as we know it,” Feige said. “Stan Lee and, in particular, Steve Ditko, had an amazing psychedelic style. I don’t know that they were doing anything weird in the bullpen in Marvel, but certainly the stuff they were doing inspired all those people who were doing mind-expansion experiments at the time. So, that’s inherent to the property. And that’s our mission statement for the visual effects on this movie."
“I was always interested in the extreme mind-bending visuals of the comics,” Derrickson said. “I had very ambitious for the visuals, which were rooted in the comics, that movies haven’t done yet. And a lot of that goes back to the Ditko artwork and all that ’60s craziness you see in the comics.”
If you follow Derrickson on Twitter, @scottderrickson, then you already know that the director is a very big fan of the art style since he has shared numerous art pieces by Ditko over the last year-plus.
DOCTOR STRANGE releases on November 4, 2016.
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