Kevin Feige Explains Doctor Strange Director's Multiverse Of Madness Exit
Kevin Feige addresses Scott Derrickson's exit from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness. Derrickson directed the first Doctor Strange, which premiered in 2016. The Marvel film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character, Stephen Strange, a brilliant doctor who turns to the mystic arts (mentored by Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One) after injuries from a major car crash render him unable to continue his career as a neurosurgeon.
Upon its release, Derrickson's Doctor Strange achieved box-office and critical success, grossing over $677 million worldwide. Throughout the last few years, Cumberbatch's portrayal of the character appeared multiple times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe outside of his initial film, including in Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Initial filming for the sequel to Doctor Strange began in November 2020, though the pandemic put production on hold, resuming once again in March 2021.
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Slash Film reports that Kevin Feige finally addressed the departure of Derrickson from Multiverse of Madness. According to his interview from the upcoming May 2022 issue of Empire magazine, artistic differences severed Derrickson's ties with the highly anticipated film. Contrary to popular rumors, the disagreement wasn't over Derrickson's pitch to lean into a more creepy, horror-esque tone in the Doctor Strange sequel – Feige insists that the development team at Marvel, fondly nicknamed the «House of Ideas,» loved that concept, also discrediting rumors that Derrickson wanted to make a "no-holds-barred weird, gnarly, scary movie" of which Marvel disapproved. It was in fact other, unspecified
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