Doctor Strange 2 Writer Says It Both Stands Alone And Intertwines With Loki
When Avengers: Endgame felt like the craziest and biggest the MCU was going to get, then came the multiverse in phase four. One person who plays a pivotal role in developing such an expansive concept isLoki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness writer Michael Waldron, as he has now explained how many of these new MCU projects not only intertwine with one another but stand on their own as well.
After building up in earlier phase four projects such as WandaVision, the MCU's multiverse was finally introduced in Loki, particularly the series' epic season finale featuring Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains, a variant of Kang the Conqueror. The alternate realities were further explored in the following films like Spider-Man: No Way Home ( which saw the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Men), and now of course will be in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel.
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In a new interview with The Playlist, Waldron discussed his involvement with many recent MCU projects such as Loki and the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, explaining how he and the rest of the creative team at Marvel Studios strived to tell stories that not only intertwine but ones that also stand on their own. «The headaches I have are probably intertwined. I mean, it’s all intertwined and it all stands alone. Like a great comic universe, I think that one thing certainly informs the other,» Waldron replied when asked if Doctor Strange 2 could have worked without Lokior if Loki season two could work withoutDoctor Strange 2. «You’re going to have a better time watching the next chapter of an MCU story if you’ve seen the stuff before it.
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