So, for that matter, did the Fantastic Beasts 3 trailer, but that’s another conversation.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Film Detailsĭoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Doctor Strange. And yeah, the IMAX trailer looks and sounds spectacular in IMAX. Offhand, it’s probably the front-runner to top the domestic box office for summer 2022, even if I think Jurassic World: Dominion still holds the upper hand worldwide. So if it plays much bigger, especially in North America, than “just another Doctor Strange movie,” well, that’s why.ĭoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opens May 6. The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films changed the game, hewing closer to various once-a-year horror franchises which Saw turned into an “If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw” artform.Īfter years lost to Covid and spent tying up unfinished business, launching new stand-alone franchises and premiering “old business” Disney+ television shows, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness can sell itself as the first “must-see” MCU flick since Avengers: Endgame. Batman Returns opened three years after Batman, The Empire Strikes Back opened three years after Star Wars and so forth. Back “in the day,” big sequels to franchise flicks often opened around three years after their respective predecessors. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is either the “season premiere” or at least the first “Sweeps Week mythology episode of Phase Four.”Īs such, there’s a certain grim irony in the film opening three years after Avengers: Endgame. Even No Way Home ended in a way to potentially render irrelevant to the broader MCU narrative. 3 got delayed until next summer and Eternals, Shang-Chi and Black Widow operated as stand-alone. The film will be a sequel to Doctor Strange (hence a return for Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams) but will also be a quasi-sequel to Spider-Man: No Way Home and WandaVision. The not-so-Sorcerer Supreme popped up in a rather funny cameo in Thor: Ragnorak in late 2017 only be a co-lead in Avengers: Infinity War in 2018 and a supporting character in Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021.
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