'Doctor Strange' release date, spoilers news: Film to pay homage to psychedelic and trippy visuals of 1960s comics
"Doctor Strange" director Scott Derrickson doused the fears of hardcore fans of the Sorcerer Supreme in his latest interview, where he promised that the film will be loyal to its source material.
"If your love for the early Stan Lee-Steve Ditko comics was that visual, psychedelic ambition, I think you'll be pretty satisfied. The primary resource for the visual design of the whole movie came from those comics," Derrickson teased to Los Angeles Daily News.
This means that the trippy and psychedelic visuals that fans know and love from the work of the dynamic duo will be given life in the "Doctor Strange" movie, paying homage to the character in the best way possible.
Taking "a bold left turn" to take on the classics for the film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character was something that Derrickson made sure to do, but he also credits much of the success to the cast as well.
"And I think they liked how I gravitate toward real actors, talented actors who are grounded in performances that are real while dealing with the supernatural," he continued.
On the subject of the cast, Derrickson again answers questions on the casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, wherein he was accusing of whitewashing since the role should have gone to an Asian actor.
He explained that Swinton's addition to the "Doctor Strange" movie "was a way of adding diversity in terms of not just an ethereal, enigmatic, otherworldly actress playing an ethereal, enigmatic, otherworldly character."
"But we're bringing a middle-aged woman who's not 28 years old in leather pants into the Marvel Universe in a major role," he explained.
Derrickson added that the addition of Swinton as The Ancient also led them to bring back Benedict Wong as Wong, another one of the Mystic Masters and a manservant, something that other media outlets like The Mary Sue and Gizmodo did not like the sound of.
"Doctor Strange" will be released on Nov. 4.
