Stan Lee may get his wish! A few months back we reported that the venerable Marvel comics senior wanted to see a "Dr. Strange" movie next. Now, Kevin Feige says a Dr. Strange movie is likely among the next batch of films coming to theaters near you.
Dr. Strange is the Marvel Universe's "Master of the Mystic Arts," also called the Sorcerer Supreme, and while Stan Lee and Neil Gaiman have said that he is the character they'd most like to see on the big screen, other's worry that the character is "problematic."
But according to Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige, he's next in line.
"Very much so," Feige said. "I’d say in the next year, year and a half, as we start putting together our film slate for 2012 and 2013, I would not be shocked if we saw Dr. Strange on those lists. I love the idea of taping into the magical realm of the Marvel Universe, which is fairly significant and hasn’t yet seen life on screen.
"It’s something I’m very, very interested in," he emphasized.
When asked if the good doctor was a bit obscure to most movie-goers, Feige laughed. "I remember two years ago at Comic Con the cover of the ‘LA Times Calendar Section,’ read ‘Marvel calls out the B team’ and there was a picture of Iron Man. We don’t look at them as ‘B team.’ Dr. Strange? This is one of the best characters we have. [He represents] this amazing cosmic universe to Marvel that we haven’t played with in films yet and I think could be amazing to play with."