Doctor Strange 2 Writer Addresses The Extra Illuminati Chair

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One of the big things that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness accomplished was that it brought a number of beloved comic book characters into the MCU, if only briefly. Now lead screenwriter Michael Waldron is talking about some of the scenes that captured audiences' attention, especially when it came to the Illuminati scene.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness offered quite a few cameos over the course of the movie, but the ones that fans have been talking about ever since the film debuted was when Doctor Strange went in front of the tribunal known as The Illuminati. Fans got to see some characters that hadn't yet been introduced in the MCU when they stepped out of the shadows and were introduced to the Sorcerer Supreme in an alternate universe. However, some eagle-eyed fans noticed a few issues with the scene, not the least of which was the fact that there was an empty chair among the tribunal.

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Waldron sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss several different topics all stemming from Doctor Strange 2, and that included just what that empty chair meant. However, as it turns out, he's not entirely sure why there was an empty chair in the scene at all. The screenwriter behind all the madness in Doctor Strange 2 made it clear that some of the biggest questions that came at him in the interview were simply things he couldn't answer. That's not because there were any big secrets to keep, but he simply wasn't told or couldn't figure out exactly what the answers should be.

When he was asked whether or not the chair was supposed to signal that someone was supposed to be there who wasn't, he said it had never really been