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If you're looking for most of the Marvel movies (including the space-y Guardians of the Galaxy films), you can find them, on the Disney Plus streaming platform. You can catch up on the entire Marvel Universe of films with our guide to the best Marvel movies and expand into the final frontier with the best space movies, too. With the aid of Scarlet Witch and more magical colleagues, Strange embarks on a wild journey through the nightmarish Multiverse to clash with a villainous new threat to all existence.Īrriving in our realm on May 6, "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stühlbarg, and Rachel McAdams. Doctor Strange must answer for his careless "desecration of reality" and might not go unpunished if Professor X (teased with a distinct Patrick Stewart voice-over) and the Illuminati have any say in rebalancing the Multiverse. The horror-tinged visuals Raimi has conjured up are truly like something out of an acid-induced surrealist painting. Stephen Strange is enveloped in the severe havoc caused by his meddling with the natural laws of the Multiverse and now our planet is paying the price as the time/space continuum is in complete chaos. The only major consequence of employing it as a story device is that, well, consistency and death no longer need to be permanent or even taken seriously.In this fresh trailer for "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," Dr. Once Western medicine failed him, Strange embarked on a journey to Kamar-Taj, where he was trained by the Ancient One in the ways of Magic and the Multiverse. The multiverse was an organic way to include characters from disparate film franchises together in the same scene (see: the Illuminati from "Multiverse" or the raison d'être of "Spider-Man: No Way Home"). Originally a brilliant but arrogant neurosurgeon, Strange got into a car accident which resulted in his hands becoming crippled. Characters can die, only to be rescued from another timeline, and wild character shifts can be explained away with a wave of the wand. "So I had to try and, I don't know, play it differently, right? I had to attack the same themes - in order for it to be interesting for me, I think, and potentially for the audience - I just had to come out from a different point of view so that it wasn't repetitive."īesides, who's to say that the Wanda in "Multiverse" was the same one from "WandaVision?" Thanks to the "parallel universes" plot that the MCU is currently embroiled in, any character could be an alternate version of themselves at any time.

Well, I proposed that to the writers of 'Multiverse.' I said 'Do you know what we're doing in 'WandaVision'? Have you seen it?' And, no, they had not seen it because it wasn't finished yet." "It's a similar arc in 'Multiverse of Madness' that it is in 'WandaVision.' There could be parallel stories being told there of dealing with grief and loss.
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When Olsen clocked the similarities between her series and her new movie - with the character tragic in one and merely villainous in the other - she mentioned it to the screenwriters. Although the MCU tends to get credit for its broad, interlocking stories, it seems that clear communication wasn't always of paramount importance between respective screenwriters. It became especially confusing when Olsen realized that her character was given the same arc in "Multiverse of Madness" as she was in "WandaVision." Both were about coping with grief, although weirdly, it was two renditions of grief stemming from the exact same event.
