Doctor Strange (2. IMDb. Edit. Marvel's . Based in New York City's Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilising a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel’s Kevin Feige on Captain America, Doctor Strange, Robert Downey. EXCLUSIVE: As Captain America: Civil War becomes the latest in a remarkably consistent string of global juggernauts, Marvel Studios maestro Kevin Feige and the superhero mojo he has injected has positioned the company to continue a performance run that one day will be looked upon as nothing short of historic. Civil War has already grossed $2. Thursday night, just shy of The Avengers: Age Of Ultron). The film sets the stage for back- to- back sequels to The Avengers, which Civil War helmers Joseph and Anthony Russo begin shooting this fall. It means Feige will have held serve in the increasingly difficult intramural can- you- top- this competition going on between Disney’s film silo system members Pixar (most recently the Oscar- winning Inside Out), Lucasfilm (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Disney’s family film division (The Jungle Book). Here, Feige discusses the balancing act that goes into administering the Marvel universe, the pseudo controversy on casting Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange, and bringing Spider- Man under Marvel quality control. DEADLINE: It feels like the only real question with Captain America: Civil War is, how high? But there have been questions on Doctor Strange and the casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, the mentor to the title character played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Fanboys noted the character was Tibetan in the comics, and The New York Times reported the suspicion of an ulterior motive to not offend China. Can you clear this up? FEIGE: We make all of our decisions on all of our films, and certainly on Doctor Strange, for creative reasons and not political reasons. That’s just always been the case. ![]() Tuesday was not a slow news day in the realm of superhero cinema. Ben Affleck declared that he’d be working on a standalone Batman film and, later, on Jimmy Kimmel. The very first teaser trailer for Marvel's Doctor Strange has arrived. Here we get a closer look at Benedict Cumberbatch in his role as Dr. Marvel has set the Doctor Strange release date for July 8, 2016; the film will be directed by Scott Derrickson from a script by Jon Spaihts. Barack, the Beatles and Bridget Jones's Baby: 40 films to watch in autumn 2016. Before Marvel dropped the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange, the film was praised not only for the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular neurosurgeon. Tasha Spillett discuss Indigenous learning on the land instead of a classroom Unreserved.
I’ve always believed that it is the films themselves that will cross all borders and really get people to identify with these heroes, and that always comes down to creative and not political reasons. The casting of The Ancient One was a major topic of conversation in the development and the creative process of the story. We didn’t want to play into any of the stereotypes found in the comic books, some of which go back as far as 5. We felt the idea of gender swapping the role of The Ancient One was exciting. ![]() The first trailer for Marvel's Doctor Strange is here - and we get to hear Benedict Cumberbatch's American accent. It opened up possibilities, it was a fresh way into this old and very typical storyline. Why not make the wisest bestower of knowledge in the universe to our heroes in the particular film a woman instead of a man? We made changes to some of the other key character in the comic for similar reasons. Specifically, casting Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mordo and there’s a character named Wong, who is a very big part of comics, and we cast this amazing Asian actor . It’s something we are incredibly mindful of. We cast Tilda out of a desire to subvert stereotypes, not feed into them. I don’t know if you saw . He said we’re listening and we’re learning, every day. As long as we’re starting on this topic, it means so much to us that people know that. We also know that people expect actions and not words in a Q& A, and I’m hopeful that some of our upcoming announcements are going to show that we’ve been listening. DEADLINE: It sounds like you deny any suggestion that Marvel or Disney didn’t want to offend China? FEIGE: That story was completely erroneous. DEADLINE: These are pretend stories, with superheroes. How sensitive do you feel that you have to be in terms of ethnicity or sticking to or hiring actors or directors of a certain color or gender? FEIGE: Well, I think it’s incredibly important. I think when we adapt any of these stories we don’t go. It’s the funny pages, we can do whatever we want. We, of course, treat them very seriously, like they’re sacred texts from which to pull stories and adapt and modernize. But we want people to watch our films and see themselves reflected in the heroes, in the villains, in the storylines. That means being as diverse as our world is. I’m a giant Star Trek fan. You know what IDIC means? ![]() It was Gene Roddenbery’s mantra: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. I think that’s just the facts of our world right now. DEADLINE: Marvel has shown diversity by making Thor a female character in the comics. You mentioned Chiwetel Ejiofor, playing a character who was white in the comics; Nick Fury, played by Samuel L. Jackson, and Thor’s gatekeeper Heimdall, played by Idris Elba, were white in the comics; and Marvel cast an Hispanic actor, Maximiliano Hernandez, in the TV series Agents Of S. H. I. E. L. D. Now, you’re mobilizing Captain Marvel as a female- driven hero tale, and several agents have told me that they’ve been told only a woman will be considered to direct this. Why lay down an edict like that? Was there a similar one when Ryan Coogler was hired for Black Panther? FEIGE: That’s not true. We didn’t lay down any edict like that. When it came to Ryan Coogler, we loved both of his films and in particular, most recently, Creed. It coincided exactly with the start of our director search for Black Panther. Luckily for us, he was very interested and pursued it and we signed him up relatively quickly. There was not a particularly large search. In terms of Captain Marvel, we don’t send out edicts. That being said, we are meeting with many, many immensely talented directors, the majority of whom are female. I do hope they will have announcements certainly by the summer, before the summer’s end, on a director for that. DEADLINE: I didn’t mean to be insensitive with Coogler, whose first two films were inclusive and full of heart. But you think about what it might mean for a child of color, to feel a stake in a movie like that, with a black actor and director. We haven’t really seen a superhero of color carry a movie since Wesley Snipes was doing the Blade movies. FEIGE: Well, you’ve seen a lot but you mean in title roles. DEADLINE: I’m talking about a freestanding film like Coogler is making. Are you thinking of the cultural impact that might have? FEIGE: I think that would be nice. We always set out to just make a great movie. I know that’s what Ryan is setting out to do but even the introduction that the characters had in Civil War and the reactions to that character. I love that and I think we’ll see much more of that when that movie comes out I think even this Halloween. But certainly the Halloween following the release of Ryan’s film I think you’re going to see lots of kids, of many ethnicities, dressing up as that character because he’s unbelievably awesome. The fact that he will be an African American actor portraying an African hero up on that screen, and a target of wish fulfillment for the audience? I think it is great. DEADLINE: Take us behind the scenes a little with your involvement in this refreshing new iteration of Spider- Man who feels like a glove fit in the Marvel Universe. I always heard that Sony rushed films to battle this ticking clock where the rights might revert if one wasn’t made every few years. What can you say about the dynamic of you and Marvel getting directly involved as a producer, and road testing Tom Holland in Civil War? FEIGE: It came down to an initial lunch between myself and Amy Pascal and then many subsequent phone calls and meetings where I basically suggested that they should allow us to creatively produce the film for them. I don’t know how serious any of those ticking clocks ever were. On some characters, that was the case, with Spider- Man there were many years in between those films and I don’t think that was ever the case. They had all the time in the world to keep making those movies. It became a question of. I had done that a little bit on the earlier Amazing Spider- Man films. It doesn’t really work because you become one voice among many. I said the only way, the best way that we could help is if you let us do it for you. It stays a Sony character and Sony pays for it and Sony makes the profits from the film and it is marketed and distributed by the entire Sony team. That deal was agreed to, over many discussions. Thankfully, it’s now been well over a year and step one in our two- step plan is unveiled this weekend. So far, the response has been a dream come true in introducing him. Instead of it being the third reboot of the Spider- Man character, it becomes the first version of the Spider- Man character that we reveal has been inside the MCU. To Amy’s credit and to Tom Rothman, who now has been at the helm at Sony as we’ve been actively putting it all together, their support has been spectacular in allowing us to bring him into this world. The biggest challenge of course was finding a Spider- Man. Our angle on the character was to make him younger because in our favorite comics, he is young. He is not graduating, he is just starting high school. That’s what makes him interesting as a superhero, particularly in the MCU. It’s what makes him so different than all the other heroes. So we really wanted him to be an amazing counterpoint to the other Avengers, which of course is what he was and why he pops so much when he was introduced in the comics in the early ’6. DEADLINE: I read those comics in the ’6. I remembered — this young, spunky kid who had a tragedy with his murdered Uncle Ben but was not defined and burdened by it. There was more of the wide- eyed wonder. He seems to be having a pretty damn good time. What about this Spider- Man most excited you? FEIGE: Well, you nailed it. His presence in Civil War was meant to be the counterpoint. The other heroes have a lot of history together. They have a lot of angst, they have a lot of geopolitical issues that they’re dealing with, and it’s heavy. This kid basically feels like he hit the jackpot. The most famous man in the world, Tony Stark, asks him to go to Germany and participate with the Avengers and he loves every minute of it. That’s who Spider- Man is, and we can and will do much more of this in Spider- Man: Homecoming. You saw it in the comics; he constantly talks.
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