It’s all about CineEurope this evening as Kevin Feige has given some pretty massive updates on a Spidey / X-Men crossover and the current state of Ant-Man. He also (the man never shuts up) spoke about Dr. Strange. Earlier in the week it was announced that Scott Derrickson is to sit at a keyboard and start typing as well as sit in the director’s chair, Fiege also spoke about how important the character is as well as other “Strange” bits.
"Scott Derrickson has been announced as the director. Doctor Strange is a character that I've been interested in for many, many years and that I've talked about in interviews for probably 14 years, because I believe it's very, very important for us to explore every nook and cranny of the comic-book universe and we've done the street-level heroes, and we've done the billionaire superheroes [on Earth]. We've now done the cosmic side withThor and Avengers and most obviously with Guardians, but there's a whole other side of the Marvel comics, which is that supernatural side - the interdimensional side of the Marvel universe, and Doctor Strange is, I believe, our entry point into that other realm, which has dozens of characters and storylines all of its own.
So Strange is very, very important, not just because it's an amazing character study, and a journey of a man who's gone from this very arrogant surgeon to somebody who is quite zen and literally keeps all of reality together on a daily basis, but it also is going to open up a whole other side of storytelling for our movies. So we're about to hire a writer to redo a draft, and we think we'll be casting probably in the next month or two, and announcing an actor, and then we get into production in the spring of next year."
Kevin Feige also spoke about plenty of other bits including Guardians Of The Galaxy and Marvel’s teaming up with Netflix. Hit up Total Film for more
