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May 6, 2022 · Marvel Studios’ DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen. Directed by Sam Raimi. In theaters May 6, 2022.
May 6, 2022 · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong. Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl who can travel across multiverses, to battle other-universe versions of himself which threaten to wipe out the multiverse.
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Rating: PG-13. Runtime: 2h 6min. Release Date: May 6, 2022. Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Marvel Studios' “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”—a thrilling ride through the Multiverse with Doctor Strange, his trusted friend Wong and Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch.
- Sam Raimi
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Feige and Derrickson officially announced the sequel at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019, revealing the title to be Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and confirming a release date of May 7, 2021.
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By Tom Power
published 15 February 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness arrives on May 6 in the US and most other worldwide territories. However, the film will launch on May 5 in the UK. Rolling Stone also suggests that European countries including Germany, Italy, and Sweden, plus South Korea, will also get it on May 4.
However, some nations, including Egypt, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia have reportedly banned the movie from being released. Per The Hollywood Reporter (THR) and The Guardian, that's down to the movie's LGBTQ references, with Xochitl Gomez's America Chavez (more on her later) mentioning her two moms, plus Chavez's own homosexuality being carried over from the comics into her live-action counterpart.
Saudi Arabia's cinema classification supervisor Nawaf Alsabhan has revealed that the country requested Disney remove "barely 12 seconds" so the film falls in line with the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law, which deems homosexuality a capital offence, but Disney has refused to do so. So Doctor Strange 2 will suffer the same fate as Eternals and West Side Story, which weren't released across much of the Gulf region over similar issues. Wechat columnist Oliver Chen has also confirmed that the film is banned in China.
Meanwhile, Doctor Strange 2 will run for two hours and six minutes (per Fandango), making it the shortest MCU film in three years. This will be the first Marvel movie accompanied by the tagline "A Kevin Feige production" (per The Direct), too. Moon Knight was the first MCU production to receive that honor and, given that Feige is the MCU's creator-in-chief, expect all other Marvel projects to carry that tagline from this point on.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' official trailer revealed how surreal and mind-blowing it'll be.
Opening with a monologue from Stephen Strange, who is plagued by the same dream every night after the events of No Way Home, it isn't long before the teaser dives head-first into the film's weird and genre-bending elements.
We learn there'll be even more Doctor Strange variants in the movie, Wanda/Scarlet Witch will be the film's main villain, and that the Multiverse of Madness will bring elements of Fox's X-Men universe and What If...?, Marvel's animated anthology TV show, into the MCU.
There are other surprises and Easter eggs within the trailer, so check our our trailer breakdown article if you want to know more. Meanwhile, the movie's first teaser was released in late December:
You may also have missed the film's official Super Bowl LVI TV spot, which contains snippets of new footage that isn't present in the main trailer. You can find that video here.
Numerous TV spots have been released online in the lead-up to its release. Check out the Reckoning, Ready, Dream, Fate, Time, Illuminati, and Change teasers if you've missed them.
Spoilers for Doctor Strange, Loki, WandaVision, and What If follow. Potential spoilers for Doctor Strange 2 are also incoming.
There are seven confirmed cast members so far, with five others all-but-confirmed (just not officially by Marvel) based on the latest trailer and TV spots:
•Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange/Sinister Strange/Defender Strange/Zombie Strange
•Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
•Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baron Karl Mordo/Master Mordo
•Benedict Wong as Wong
Here's the official synopsis: "In Marvel Studios’ 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,' the MCU unlocks the multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before. Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary."
That adversary is Wanda/Scarlet Witch. She's in possession of the Darkhold, wants to be reunited with Billy and Tommy, and appears to go on a killing spree (based on her blood splattered face in the latest trailer). She even says to Strange at one point "When you break the rules, you become a hero. When I do it, I become the enemy. How is that fair?". How much more proof do we need than that?
WandaVision villain Agatha Harkness hinted that the Scarlet Witch would “destroy the world”, which may be a warning that Wanda will be consumed by the Darkhold’s influence. It's possible that she'll try and use it to get Billy and Tommy back for good, but that could spell trouble for the MCU and wider multiverse.
A threat such as Scarlet Witch would require Strange to team up with the likes of Chavez, Wong, Rintrah, and the Illuminati. In the end, though, he may have to tackle Scarlet Witch alone, with producer Richie Palmer telling Empire: "Meeting the Wanda Maximoff at the end of Endgame would have been a lot for Strange. Who comes out on top as the most powerful being in the universe? Maybe we find out at the end of the movie."
Director Sam Raimi also weighed in on that discussion (per Fandango), but his answer was equally non-committal. "I think Wanda's magic, from Marvel lore, is more powerful than almost any of the other characters in this picture, but Doctor Strange has the knowledge of the mystic arts that Wanda doesn't have, and he's got the help of Kamar-Taj.
"If you were to pit them against each other, different altered versions of themselves... there could be a Doctor Strange out there that's more powerful than our Wanda. Or there could be a Wanda out there who is more powerful than our Wanda here. So, because of these altered versions, it's all a mixed bag of possibilities."
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness sounds like it'll have a big impact on the MCU. After all, per Variety, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was recently quoted as saying: "You [Benedict Cumberbatch] have become the anchor of the MCU and the only actor capable of guiding us through the madness of the multiverse."
Michael Waldron has also weighed in on the impact of Doctor Strange 2 on future MCU projects, telling The Playlist: "You’re going to have a better time watching the next chapter of an MCU story if you’ve seen the stuff before it. But also, hopefully, even if you’ve never if you’ve walked in off the street, you’ll still have a blast. It should be good enough that it stands on its own."
So how does Doctor Strange 2 tie into former and upcoming projects?
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Strange agreed to help Peter Parker make everyone forget he's Spider-Man. That's after Mysterio had revealed Parker's identity at the end of Far From Home. However, Peter caused Strange to lose focus as he's casting the necessary spell, which causes reality to break down and almost ushers in the multiverse. It's from that movie, then, that Strange's examination of the multiverse truly begins.
Meanwhile, in Loki episode 6, Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) killed one of Kang's variants – the seemingly immortal He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors). Along with Wanda messing around with the Darkhold to potentially bring her sons back to life, all three events seemingly connect together and cause the multiverse to become a far greater threat to the MCU than anyone realizes. Kevin Feige has since confirmed (via ComicBook.com) that Loki season 1 officially brought the multiverse into the MCU.
As for future movies and TV shows, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania could also have loose ties to Doctor Strange 2. According to director Peyton Reed, the threequel could explore the Quantum Realm, a place where reality is warped and doesn’t abide by the laws of physics, in more detail.
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