‘Doctor Strange 2’ Up In The Air, But Screenwriter Has Ideas For Sequel’s Villain And Story
Marvel Studios seems to be setting up Doctor Strange to be one of the new leaders of the Avengers, so it’s a little — forgive me —strangethat aDoctor Strangesequel has yet to be confirmed. But while things don’t look so good for him in the trailers forAvengers: Infinity War, it’s still likely that Stephen Strange will return to fight another day.
That’s whatDoctor StrangescreenwriterC. Robert Cargillis thinking as he lays out his plans for theDoctor Strange 2villain and story.
“Marvel movies work in threes,” Cargill recently said in an interview withMovieWebwhen asked for an update onDoctor Strange 2. “They also work outside of their threes. Some of the better Marvel films have more than one villain in them.”
That’s why his planned villain forDoctor Strange 2isNightmareand notChiwetel Ejiofor’s Baron Mordo, who was set up to be Stephen Strange’s next Big Bad at the end ofDoctor Strange. Nightmare is a ruler of the “Dream Dimension” who torments humans in their sleep — like the villainous, Marvel counterpoint to DC Comics' Sandman. Nightmare has frequently clashed with Doctor Strange and Ghost Rider.
But that doesn’t mean Mordo will be put on the backburner. Like Cargill says, he plans to have at least two villains in play forDoctor Strange 2, which he and directorScott Derricksonare working on. Cargill added:
“Me and Scott have not laid the groundwork for it but what I can say is that I have a feeling that whatever Nightmare is involved with, Baron Mordo, being somebody who considers himself the defender of natural law will have something to do with it.”
Cargill says he is also thinking several films in the future when it comes to Baron Mordo. The reason an Oscar nominee like Ejiofor signed on for Mordo in the first place is because of all the meaty drama the villain offers. Enough meaty drama for Mordo to become a Marvel villain on par withTom Hiddleston’s incredibly charismatic Loki? Cargill hopes so:
“For those of you who have ever read the comics, you know that Baron Mordo has a very particular arc, and that’s something we discussed with Chiwetel while working on the first movie. And part of the reason Chiwetel wanted to play Mordo was because he has a definitive ending as a character and it’s such a fascinating ending. And I do know that whether we’re attached or not, that Marvel plans on working towards that ending and fully realizing Mordo as more than just a cardboard cutout villain, but actually taking him to kind of Loki levels of awesomeness. That’s the goal with him.”
Marvel hasyet to confirmDoctor Strange 2, according to starBenedict Cumberbatch.But once it’s greenlit, you canprobably expect the sequelsometime in 2020.
