Doctor Strange 2 Has Scarlet Witch Variants, Confirms Sam Raimi

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director Sam Raimi confirms the movie has multiple Wanda Maximoff variants. The upcoming MCU project is Raimi's first time back in the director's chair since 2013's Oz the Great and Powerful, and marks the filmmaker's return to the superhero genre after having helped it achieve its current success with the 2000s Spider-Man trilogy. After experiencing some release-date shuffling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will hit theaters on May 6.

As a significant expansion of the MCU's recent multiverse storyline, the film has already been shown to contain multiple Doctor Strange variants, including an Evil Strange that could be the movie's main villain. However, Elizabeth Olsen is also returning to the big screen as Wanda Maximoff after the 2021 Disney+ series WandaVision saw her self-actualize as the Scarlet Witch, significantly increasing her power. The Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trailers have teased a potential villainous turn for Wanda, whose use of the Darkhold spell book could prove corrupting.

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Now, in a new interview with Fandango, Raimi confirms that multiple Scarlet Witch variants will appear in Doctor Strange 2. The footage released so far had made it difficult to tell if the Wanda seen confronting Strange could be distinct from the MCU version, but when asked if Olsen is tasked with playing multiple versions of her Marvel character, the director answers in the affirmative. Raimi notes that it was a challenge for both her and Benedict Cumberbatch to perform all the variants, and that he had a lot of fun directing them. Check out his full comment