SNAPSHOT
“‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is directed by the beloved American genre filmmaker Sam Raimi, director of many films including It’s Murder!, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Crimewave, Darkman, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game, The Gift, Spider-Man 1-3, Drag Me to Hell, and Oz the Great and Powerful previously. The screenplay is written by Michael Waldron and Jade Halley Bartlett; based on the Marvel comics by Steve Ditko & Stan Lee. Produced by Kevin Feige; executive produced by Scott Derrickson. (synopsis courtesy First Showing)
Once more to the multiverse my friends, once more.
All of you, from different dimensions, who look eerily alike but who are just different enough to be Uncanny Valley different; it’s time for every last one of you to go hard and go deep into the multiverse with your guide, Doctor Strange, played with manic vulnerability and arrogance by one Benedict Cumberbatch.
Be warned though for all the cool, alternate possibilities of this realm upon realm upon realm, there’s a great deal of danger and horror too and from the looks of the trailer, these come in equal parts, designed to both excite and terrify.
You could argue that Marvel have always been enamoured of the multiverse with their predilection for bringing back characters who were once thought lost, a whole lot of alternative timelining that neatly closes off narratives, all while no doubt splintering the world we know into yet more trippy variations on a theme.
Quite where it will all land is anyone’s guess in this place, but given the infinite possibilities of the multiverse, it’s likely best to expect everything … and then some!
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opens 5 May in Australia and UK and 6 May in USA.
