Benedict Cumberbatch Denies What If...? Connection In Doctor Strange 2
As it approaches its premiere next week, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness might just blow the lid off the interdimensional mess that Loki already teased last summer, and finally, bring the X-Men to the MCU. What it won’t be doing is connecting Disney Plus' animated Marvel world to the rest of Phase Four, at least according to star Benedict Cumberbatch.
Last year, What If...? episode 4 teased a darker Stephen Strange in an episode that pondered what would happen if the world-renowned surgeon lost Christine Palmer instead of surgical skills, thus triggering a breakdown that led to him becoming Doctor Strange Supreme. Since Kevin Feige himself admitted the upcoming sequel is the film fans should look out for to begin untangling the mysteries of the multiverse, and with the confirmed presence of another Doctor Strange in it, fan theories had speculated whether the What If…? upside-down reality could spill onto the live-action MCU.
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However, that doesn’t seem to be the case, as Cumberbatch recently confessed to Total Film that the characters being portrayed in Doctor Strange 2 are “nothing that you’ve seen before.What If...? is a beautiful riff of a potential. And this is something different.” Cumberbatch said this despite the all but confirmed presence of a Captain Carter or Captain Britain. To cap off his comments, Cumberbatch jokingly said, «There are five Spider-Men in this film. Spider-Women, too,” referring to the epic crossover featured in Spider-Man: No Way Home. However, unlike all the Peter Parkers, he will be the one playing all Doctor Strange variants in his movie.
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