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‘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)
The multiverse is a beguiling concept.
The idea that there are infinite variations on reality sitting cheek-by-jowl with ours is alluring since it suggests an optimistic chance that what is wrong here could be right somewhere else, or that our less than stellar life here might have found exultantly fulfilling expression elsewhere.
Not so fast with the rose-tinted glasses view of the multiverse my friends because as the new trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness makes unnervingly but entertainingly clear, it could be all kinds of dark and dangerous.
Great for an epic Marvel movie; not so good for a sunnily optimistic view of other realities.
Coming hard on the heels of multiverse narratives in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, there’s a very good chance Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness might just take on our whole other epic journey into a multiverse that is brimming with as much darkness as it does possibility.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness releases 5 May in Australia and 6 May in US and UK.