Doctor Strange begins production in November, and we should be getting more and more casting news over the next month or two as a result. IGN were able to catch up with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige to push him for details on the movie ahead of that Avengers: Age of Ultron Q&A we've been bringing you details from all day, and despite reports that Doctor Strange will be skipping the character's origin story, he quickly debunked that. "For some reason people sometimes talked about how we're not doing an origin story, we're bored of origin stories. I think people are bored of origin stories they've seen before or origin stories that are overly familiar. Doctor Strange has one of the best, most classic, most unique origin stories of any hero we have, so why wouldn't we do that?" Well, that puts the "no more origin stories" rumour to rest!
Asked who is going to serve as the audience's entry point into the bizarre world of Doctor Strange, Feige confirmed that it will be Benedict Cumberbatch's Stephen Strange, but said that Rachel McAdams' character may do the same. "She plays a very, very big part in the movie and represents a certain point of view of the worlds that we experience in that movie, but Doctor Strange, without a doubt, is the character we follow through the movie." Talking of the movie's supporting cast, there's been a lot of talk about the gender of The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton). Will she be a man or woman? The latter, but expect some abiguity according to the Marvel boss! "We get an amazing actress to play an amazing character, and do it in a way that's very unique and doesn't fall into any outdated stereotypes that sometimes pop up in the comics from years past. It's funny you ask 'Will Tilda Swinton be playing a woman?' and you ask it because she does an amazing job of being sort of ambiguous in terms of gender. I think you'll see us playing it in ways that she's played other characters that way. Clearly she's a woman, but it is very ambiguous in her portrayal." What do you guys think about these latest Doctor Strange details?
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