Doctor Strange's mid-credits scene sees the Sorcerer Supreme meeting with Thor and agreeing to help him and Loki find Odin so they'll return to Asgard and stop plaguing Earth. When Den of Geek caught up with director Scott Derrickson, they asked him how that all came about, and he confirmed that it was indeed Taika Waititi who shot it. However, will it end up being part of Thor: Ragnarok next year?
"Taika [Waititi] shot that - I can't say if it's from Thor 3 or not, but we had our set up and were going to strike it after I finished shooting and it's a very expensive set with the chamber of relics and the window and everything... I don't know where they were on the script process, but it was before they were in production. Taika wrote that scene and came in and shot it. We had no specific intention at that point to use it as the tag, but after we finished our movie we felt that it was kind of perfect. It plays really well, the audience likes the uplift of Strange being introduced to the wider MCU. Until then he's not really a part of it, he's just a story happening on his own - but after that tag, it's all changed."
What's interesting about this is the fact that it was filmed before Thor: Ragnarok was shot, so that leaves us with a lot of fairly significant questions. For example, will that movie just gloss over Strange's role now fans have seen this sequence or did Waititi shoot an even longer version of the mid-credits scene which will end up being inserted into it? For now, we're obviously going to have to wait and see.
With any luck, it's going to be the latter anyway (similar to that Captain America: Civil War tease at the end of Ant-Man). What do you think of Derrickson's comments? Let us know your thoughts below.
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