24 thoughts on “Doctor Strange Trailer”

  2. Hm. Not completely sold yet. But it’s a teaser-trailer. And the visual of Strange’s astral self being punched out of his body had an actual Ditko-esque quality somehow.

  5. Sherlock Holmes being trained by Orlando to take down Hannibal Lecter.

    I can dig it.

  6. Khan Noonien Singh being trained by Jadis to take down One Eye.

    Groovy.

  8. This is cool. And Tilda Swinton is cool. But why is an old Tibetan guy being played by a white woman? *scratches head*

  9. But why is an old Tibetan guy being played by a white woman?

    I think it’s something along the lines of “let’s fix the stereotypical Wise Old Asian Mentor in a way that will definitely cause no problems of its own”.

  12. Okay, I’m in. Tilda Swinton going from sexy woman to shaved headed astral guide in one year? How continuing flexible of her.

  13. They do seem to be reaching for the film equivalent of Ditko’s surrealism, don’t they?

    I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. Looks very good.

  14. Kate on April 13, 2016 at 2:39 am said: This is cool. And Tilda Swinton is cool. But why is an old Tibetan guy being played by a white woman? *scratches head*

    I know, right? That could be like casting Johnny Storm with Michael B. Jordan. Or, it could work. There’s no structural reason for The Ancient One to be an old Tibetan dude, and Ms. Swinton is very cool.

    It all depends on the writing, in the end. If they go -way- off course with it, like FF, it will be just another -could have been awesome but sucked- comic book movie fail. These stories are surprisingly delicate, they don’t seem to respond well when you try to make them do stuff differently from the original.

    However, signs are positive. They’ve apparently stuck with the bones of the Dr. Strange origin story, and the astral projection visual was stunning.

    I’m excited! Yay!

  15. mightygodking.com (full disclosure, I’m a guest blogger there, but this isn’t one of my posts) has a really good breakdown of the pros and cons of the Swinton casting and the trailer in general.

  16. I wonder if they are going to link any of this film to the Daredevil or Iron Fist television properties. Both of those have “eastern mysticism” baked in to their structure, so it would seem like a natural cross-over.

  17. @AAron I forgot who said it, but it was on a post about this issue (Marvel movies vs Marvel TV shows) but the development cycle of tv shows versus movies makes it real difficult to do that consistently. TV cycles a lot faster, so matching up things in a movie, planned out far in advance, can be clunky.

  18. It also depends on how specific and ‘grounded’ the mysticism is in any cultural background. Dr.Strange’s origin storybhas a few trappings of white-savior/mystical orient tropes but they don’t play much part in the actual character. The mysticism in his comics tends to be its own sort of thing and is as likely to draw on Egyptian or Christian influences as Asian ones. And often draws more on ‘Jack Kirby tripping balls’ than any specific real world analogues.

    So I think the casting and racial treatment is going to depend very very heavily on how the present it in the movie.

  21. Hmm, that looks pretty good. And I’ve never been a big fan of Doctor Strange, probably because I found Mandrake the Magician before I found Doctor Strange.

    Coincidentally, my Mom is really primed to watch it and even called me to ask me if I’d seen the trailer for that new Benedict Cumberbatch movie yet (apparently, it was shown on some German celebrity new program). And normally, it takes a bit of persuasion to get her to watch Marvel movies that don’t include Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth or Rocket Raccoon.

  22. When they announced Tilda Swinton for the Ancient One, I was hoping that they would go with Western occult traditions instead of the Orientalism. Oh, well.

    It wouldn’t take much to tie the Ancient One into K’un Lun, though. Use the same visual designs, toss in an offhand comment as an Easter egg.

  23. I wonder if they are going to link any of this film to the Daredevil or Iron Fist television properties. Both of those have “eastern mysticism” baked in to their structure, so it would seem like a natural cross-over.

    Almost certainly not. The shows themselves may take cues from the movie, but the movies are intentionally firewalled from the TV space. There’s reasons of practicality (relative size of audience, that sort of thing). There’s also, and this is the big one, realpolitik: the movies are Feige’s fiefdom, the TV space is Perlmutter’s. Feige despises Perlmutter and wants nothing to do with him, at all. The less contact there is between their divisions, the happier he is.

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