With a planned November 4th, 2016 debut set for Doctor Strange, things are going to come together relatively quickly in the next couple of months for the production. Scott Derrickson joined as the director awhile ago and Benedict Cumberbatch is playing the title role as revealed previously. This world should have an interesting cast of characters associated with it and it looks like it’s going to be really interesting if this casting comes through. According to THR, Tilda Swinton is in talks to take on the role of the Ancient One, a very established character that serves as the characters mento and overall teacher towards becoming the next Sorcerer Supreme. In the comics, the character is a man, but it’s one of those important but smaller roles where a change like this has no discernible impact on the actual story or character interactions themselves.
And it’s Tilda Swinton. She’s done some mior genre work before, including the Constantine film, but she’s done some fantastic work over the course of her career and recently with both Snowpiercer and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
“It takes a while to work on these movies before they’re ready to come to you in theaters,” said Feige during the announcement of the film back on October. “Doctor Stephen Strange, brilliant neurosurgeon, bit of an arrogant fellow who gets in a car accident and ruins what he thinks are the tools of his trade: his hands. “In the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the supernatural, that involves everything from quantum mechanics to string theory. The idea of this film is to open up a whole new corner of the cinematic universe. We want to enter, through Strange, the world of parallel dimensions.”
Plot concept: The film will follow the story of neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions.