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Found these over on IGN:
The Stax Report: Special Dr. Strange Edition
Stax casts the Sorcerer Supreme's feature film!
by Stax
June 24, 2003 - Stax here with a Special Dr. Strange Edition of The Stax Report! As I've done before with Superman, Fantastic Four and Iron Man, I'm suggesting my dream cast for the feature film version of Marvel Comics' Master of the Mystic Arts. As with my other comic book movie/wish list columns, I'll also offer my own take on how to bring this Marvel Comics superhero to the big screen.
This story is, at its core, a redemption tale. It's about an arrogant, proud man who – stripped of all his success and material trappings – learns to dedicate himself to helping others and making the world a better place. That's what I always loved about the classic origin story. For all its supernatural elements, the saga of Stephen Strange is an incredibly human and compelling journey. That's what I would like to see in a feature film version of Dr. Strange.
One of the many challenges Dr. Strange faces in translating well to the big-screen is in not making the sorcery and incantations seem corny or silly. That's why I'd have the sorcerers cast their spells in either an ancient tongue or some pig Latin language concocted just for the film. Also, there can't be any dumb jokes or endless one-liners; in other words, Dr. Strange shouldn't be The Mummy.
Another challenge in bringing this character to the big-screen is in determining how much time to devote to his origin story. How long should the film be set in Tibet before the audience grows tired of waiting to see what they paid for (namely, Dr. Strange engaged in magical mortal combat)? I think the first hour of the film should cover the origin story and be intercut with the developing agenda of the evil Baron Mordo. The last half is where the coolest stuff will be packed in.
Strange's romance with Clea could be introduced at some point after Strange makes his first foray into another dimension in order to disrupt Mordo's plans. Finally, the inclusion of the horrific Dormammu – clearly meant to be an entirely CGI creation – should be saved until the last act or even as late as the climax. Dormammu is the pay-off to all of Mordo's nefarious activities; if he's introduced too soon, it'll all be downhill after that.
I know this is a general take on Dr. Strange but I really believe this character could be brought to the big-screen in a serious manner that also doesn't betray his comic book roots. While the cast below may not be the most exciting ensemble you'll ever see, these recognizable but affordable actors would assure that Dr. Strange will at least be well-acted and have enough money left in the pot for decent visual effects:
Jim Caviezel as Dr. Strange. I think the brooding star of The Count of Monte Cristo, Frequency and The Thin Red Line has the right look, acting skill and ethereal presence to portray the Sorcerer Supreme without making a fool of himself. Caviezel could also capture surgeon Stephen Strange's aloofness and arrogance prior to becoming the Master of the Mystic Arts.
Other Strange candidates include Guy Pearce, Clive Owen and Richard Gere. Yes, I know, fanboys, Timothy Dalton would've been cool as Dr. Strange – in 1987! He's too old and portly for the role now (and, honestly, when was the last time he starred in a major feature film?).
Gabriel Byrne as Baron Mordo. He's a cool actor, plays a swell villain and already has a few other supernatural flicks to his credit (okay, so they're End of Days and Stigmata) so that's why Gabriel Byrne gets my vote as Dr. Strange's arch-enemy, the wicked sorcerer Baron Mordo. That Byrne himself would've made a cool Doc Strange back in the day only makes his casting here as another (albeit fallen) pupil of the Ancient One all the more fitting. Other contenders include Geoffrey Rush, Brian Cox, Jeremy Irons, Alan Rickman, Stephen Dillane and Marcel Iures.
Liv Tyler as Clea. Who better than the Arwen herself to portray this enchanting, inter-dimensional beauty? Tyler's otherworldly looks served her well in the Lord of the Rings trilogy – and she also impressed me with her acting skills (in a role I initially thought she may have been miscast in). While some of Clea's comic book back story may have to be altered to suit the feature film, she should be torn between two worlds, if you will, and have conflicting loyalties to some degree. I think Tyler could pull that off. Other possibilities include Cate Blanchett (too old for this role?) and Keira Knightley.
B.D. Wong as Wong. Here's the character who will likely have to be changed the most for the movie version. Personally, I don't want Wong to be portrayed as some "ever-faithful manservant." That's insulting, frankly. I'd rather see Wong as more of Strange's partner and associate in matters of the occult, perhaps even more of an academic. B.D. Wong is an award-winning character actor best known to general audiences for his recurring roles on Law & Order: SVU and Oz, and for his turn on Broadway in M.Butterfly. I think he could make Wong more of a contemporary and independent character.
Mako as The Ancient One. I know, I know. Mako is cast as every old Asian male in movies but tell me he wasn't born to play The Ancient One! Mako co-starred with B.D. Wong in Seven Years in Tibet so Dr. Strange could be a reunion of sorts for them. His other credits include Pearl Harbor, Rising Sun and the Conan films.
Tyler (L), Wong (C), and Mako (R).
Writer-director Guillermo Del Toro. The filmmaker behind such supernatural comic book movies as Hellboy and Blade II seems ideal for Doctor Strange thanks to his dark, visceral imagery and knack for horror. His other credits include Kronos, The Devil's Backbone and Mimic. Other possible director candidates include Alex Proyas, Stephen Norrington and Christopher Gans. Obviously, David Cronenberg or Wes Craven would be great, too.
The Stax Report: Special Dr. Strange Edition
Stax casts the Sorcerer Supreme's feature film!
by Stax
June 24, 2003 - Stax here with a Special Dr. Strange Edition of The Stax Report! As I've done before with Superman, Fantastic Four and Iron Man, I'm suggesting my dream cast for the feature film version of Marvel Comics' Master of the Mystic Arts. As with my other comic book movie/wish list columns, I'll also offer my own take on how to bring this Marvel Comics superhero to the big screen.
This story is, at its core, a redemption tale. It's about an arrogant, proud man who – stripped of all his success and material trappings – learns to dedicate himself to helping others and making the world a better place. That's what I always loved about the classic origin story. For all its supernatural elements, the saga of Stephen Strange is an incredibly human and compelling journey. That's what I would like to see in a feature film version of Dr. Strange.
One of the many challenges Dr. Strange faces in translating well to the big-screen is in not making the sorcery and incantations seem corny or silly. That's why I'd have the sorcerers cast their spells in either an ancient tongue or some pig Latin language concocted just for the film. Also, there can't be any dumb jokes or endless one-liners; in other words, Dr. Strange shouldn't be The Mummy.
Another challenge in bringing this character to the big-screen is in determining how much time to devote to his origin story. How long should the film be set in Tibet before the audience grows tired of waiting to see what they paid for (namely, Dr. Strange engaged in magical mortal combat)? I think the first hour of the film should cover the origin story and be intercut with the developing agenda of the evil Baron Mordo. The last half is where the coolest stuff will be packed in.
Strange's romance with Clea could be introduced at some point after Strange makes his first foray into another dimension in order to disrupt Mordo's plans. Finally, the inclusion of the horrific Dormammu – clearly meant to be an entirely CGI creation – should be saved until the last act or even as late as the climax. Dormammu is the pay-off to all of Mordo's nefarious activities; if he's introduced too soon, it'll all be downhill after that.
I know this is a general take on Dr. Strange but I really believe this character could be brought to the big-screen in a serious manner that also doesn't betray his comic book roots. While the cast below may not be the most exciting ensemble you'll ever see, these recognizable but affordable actors would assure that Dr. Strange will at least be well-acted and have enough money left in the pot for decent visual effects:
Jim Caviezel as Dr. Strange. I think the brooding star of The Count of Monte Cristo, Frequency and The Thin Red Line has the right look, acting skill and ethereal presence to portray the Sorcerer Supreme without making a fool of himself. Caviezel could also capture surgeon Stephen Strange's aloofness and arrogance prior to becoming the Master of the Mystic Arts.
Other Strange candidates include Guy Pearce, Clive Owen and Richard Gere. Yes, I know, fanboys, Timothy Dalton would've been cool as Dr. Strange – in 1987! He's too old and portly for the role now (and, honestly, when was the last time he starred in a major feature film?).
Gabriel Byrne as Baron Mordo. He's a cool actor, plays a swell villain and already has a few other supernatural flicks to his credit (okay, so they're End of Days and Stigmata) so that's why Gabriel Byrne gets my vote as Dr. Strange's arch-enemy, the wicked sorcerer Baron Mordo. That Byrne himself would've made a cool Doc Strange back in the day only makes his casting here as another (albeit fallen) pupil of the Ancient One all the more fitting. Other contenders include Geoffrey Rush, Brian Cox, Jeremy Irons, Alan Rickman, Stephen Dillane and Marcel Iures.
Liv Tyler as Clea. Who better than the Arwen herself to portray this enchanting, inter-dimensional beauty? Tyler's otherworldly looks served her well in the Lord of the Rings trilogy – and she also impressed me with her acting skills (in a role I initially thought she may have been miscast in). While some of Clea's comic book back story may have to be altered to suit the feature film, she should be torn between two worlds, if you will, and have conflicting loyalties to some degree. I think Tyler could pull that off. Other possibilities include Cate Blanchett (too old for this role?) and Keira Knightley.
B.D. Wong as Wong. Here's the character who will likely have to be changed the most for the movie version. Personally, I don't want Wong to be portrayed as some "ever-faithful manservant." That's insulting, frankly. I'd rather see Wong as more of Strange's partner and associate in matters of the occult, perhaps even more of an academic. B.D. Wong is an award-winning character actor best known to general audiences for his recurring roles on Law & Order: SVU and Oz, and for his turn on Broadway in M.Butterfly. I think he could make Wong more of a contemporary and independent character.
Mako as The Ancient One. I know, I know. Mako is cast as every old Asian male in movies but tell me he wasn't born to play The Ancient One! Mako co-starred with B.D. Wong in Seven Years in Tibet so Dr. Strange could be a reunion of sorts for them. His other credits include Pearl Harbor, Rising Sun and the Conan films.
Tyler (L), Wong (C), and Mako (R).
Writer-director Guillermo Del Toro. The filmmaker behind such supernatural comic book movies as Hellboy and Blade II seems ideal for Doctor Strange thanks to his dark, visceral imagery and knack for horror. His other credits include Kronos, The Devil's Backbone and Mimic. Other possible director candidates include Alex Proyas, Stephen Norrington and Christopher Gans. Obviously, David Cronenberg or Wes Craven would be great, too.
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Also check out his review of an old Strange script. I could so see the first half of this movie in my mind reading this review!
The Stax Report: Script Review of Dr. Strange
A fond look back at Bob Gale's old draft!
by Stax
March 25, 2004 - Stax here with my reaction to a very old draft of Dr. Strange! Longtime readers will recall that I previously reviewed this script back at my now defunct site, Flixburg. Ever since Flixburg went kaput, I've received lots of e-mail from readers who'd like to find older reviews for such unproduced projects as Dr. Strange. I've now gotten the okay to republish some of them here.
This 115-page revised first draft is dated January 21st, 1986. Bob Gale, hot off his successful writing stint on Back to the Future, was commissioned to write a big-screen version of Marvel Comics' Master of the Mystic Arts. According to an interview Gale did with Starlog at the time, the project looked like a sure thing but it never came to be.
In the early 1990's, Columbia Pictures commissioned drafts from David Goyer and Jeff Welch but then lost the rights to the property. Goyer almost tackled Dr. Strange again in 2001 for Dimension Films but that also never happened.
For my own take on how to bring Dr. Strange to the big-screen, click here.
Gale's origin for the Marvel hero is faithful to his comic book counterpart. The protagonist is still renowned surgeon (and jerk) Stephen Strange, who loses the use of his skilled hands following a car accident. Strange, desperate to regain full use of his hands in order to remain a famous and wealthy surgeon, squanders his fortune by vainly traveling the world in search of a cure. Virtually broke, Strange makes a final attempt at being cured by traveling to a monastery in Nepal that is buried deep within the Himalayas.
There he encounters the Ancient One, as well as his treacherous protégé Baron Mordo. With his hands now cured, Stephen Strange gradually abandons his selfish and earthly ways in favor of studying the wondrous mystic arts the Ancient One has exposed him to. After Baron Mordo betrays and nearly kills the Ancient One, Stephen becomes the elder sorcerer's new apprentice – and a better, more heroic man for it. Dr. Strange has his mystic mettle tested when Mordo, seeking revenge upon the Ancient One, tries to establish a dimensional entranceway so that the demonic Dormammu can arrive on Earth and conquer humankind.
The first ten or so pages take place centuries ago and depict a young Ancient One (then named Tiro) as he and his master prevent a tribal priest and his cult from bringing Dormammu to earth via a human sacrifice. To raise Dormammu, the priest uses an enchanted obsidian object called Skulkane that cannot be destroyed by human hands; only Dormammu himself can destroy that which can bring him to earth.
Tiro and his master save the day but the master dies. Before he does, though, he passes the mantle onto Tiro. Dormammu swears vengeance upon Tiro before the dimensional portal snatches him away. Tiro manages to split Skulkane in two but cannot destroy it. Per his master's dying words, Tiro hides one part of Skulkane close to him for observance and dispenses with the other half.
Cut to 1980's Manhattan. Stephen Strange is nicely established as a smug Reagan-era yuppie; he is arrogant but justifiably so as he has just accomplished a record-setting bypass surgery (that dates the script right there). By the way, he is a heart surgeon here and not a neurologist as he was in the comics. Strange purchases an odd-looking brownstone in Greenwich Village and notices that the same Asian man appears each time he passes by it (turns out to be Wong, a sleeper agent of the Ancient One's).
Strange attends a high society gala at a rich art collector's home where she shows him the latest addition to her collection: the second half of Skulkane that the Ancient One had hurled into the ocean centuries before. Nobody knows what it really is, of course. Strange is inexplicably interested in this artifact; he is not alone in that, however.
A beautiful British woman named Liana is also fascinated by this portion of Skulkane. Strange, as it so happens, is also intensely interested in Liana. So much so that when she slips away from his lame advances, he hops in his red Maserati and chases after her as she flees the party.
This is when his career-ending car wreck happens. Dormammu's minions still walk the earth in the form of naked, hairy, red-eyed savages who drool green slime. (Dormammu also possesses wolves in a similar manner.) It is one of these "red-eyed savages" that Strange tries to avoid hitting that causes him to lose control of his car and become seriously injured. Although devastated by this tragedy, Stephen Strange stubbornly refuses to abandon hope.
Within two years Strange has exhausted his fortune and seemingly all possible medical and spiritual healing "cures" except for one. That mysterious Asian man who Strange always sees near his brownstone (Wong) runs an herbal shop and tells him about the Ancient One's monastery in Nepal. Spending his last $3500 to travel there, Strange is kept waiting for days before finally meeting the Ancient One. The build-up to this moment is well done and worth the wait.
We are making the leap from the world we understand and are about to enter a new world where the physical laws we accept don't necessarily apply so Gale wisely makes it a gradual, mysterious introduction. Odd colored lights emanating from under closed doors at the monastery; flashes of mystical images that could be dismissed as symptoms of physical exhaustion; even Baron Mordo seems like a pretty decent fellow when we first meet him.
In fact, it is Mordo who heals Strange's hands; as it later turns out, it was just a hypnotic trick meant to hasten Strange's departure so that Mordo could prevent the Ancient One from acquiring a new apprentice. Stephen Strange's journey from hubris to humility is a long, reluctant, but ultimately believable one and that is what makes Gale's Dr. Strange script work so well most of the time.
It is not until about page 65 that Stephen Strange accepts that the fantastic new things he has seen are indeed real. Cured by the Ancient One, Stephen could walk away from the monastery and go back to his great career and all the material gain it offers. But Stephen Strange is no longer the man he was two years ago when he had his accident. He has become a better, deeper, and more compassionate person.
With Mordo on the loose after having failed to kill the Ancient One, Strange accepts the master's offer to become his new apprentice in the practice of the mystic arts. What follows is the requisite Luke-Yoda/Jedi training sequence, complete with New Age mumbo jumbo and "young grasshopper"-like platitudes. For the most part, the "mystical" dialogue works here.
The first 70 pages are quite well done and entertaining but the script falters in the home stretch. With a potentially laughable character like Dr. Strange, I think the trick to making it all work is by applying the old adage "less is more." Leave it mysterious and awe-inspiring; explain it away and that's where you start to lose people.
Dr. Strange is a story about a heel who discovers his own humanity. The minute Gale puts Strange in the suit and has him head to Manhattan to battle Mordo, we are in comic book country and Gale starts writing a comic book, right down to the banal dialogue. It's a very sharp downward spiral. By injecting too much humor into the story's finale, Gale diminishes the threat the villains pose. Baron Mordo became a one-dimensional mystical baddie like those seen in numerous lame sword and sorcery films.
Bob Gale
Another big problem in the latter part of Dr. Strange is the way-too-late-to care re-introduction of Liana into the script. In what is the script's most exciting sequence (a variation of which I truly hope makes it into the final film some day), Strange's astral form returns to Liana's place and discovers that his body has been kidnapped by a pair of Mordo's goons. (The goons talk about wanting to get home in time to watch Dynasty!) Liana has set him up and now Strange's astral self must race across the Big Apple in order to find his body.
If a body is separated from the astral self for more than an hour then both will cease to exist. Strange's desperate search would make for a very cool special effects sequence that also packs a dramatic whallop. Needless to say, Strange recovers his human form and dispatches the goons while Liana realizes the error of her ways and now aids the hero. It's simply way too late by this point to try and inject a romantic subplot into the narrative without it feeling forced. (Please note there was no Clea in this draft.)
For the most part, Bob Gale's Dr. Strange was an entertaining interpretation of the Marvel character. Except for its lackluster third act, this was a good attempt at realizing Dr. Strange as a feature film (and much better than that 1978 TV pilot). Gale succeeded in taking one of Marvel's most potentially ludicrous film characters and making one suspend their disbelief. – STAX
The Stax Report: Script Review of Dr. Strange
A fond look back at Bob Gale's old draft!
by Stax
March 25, 2004 - Stax here with my reaction to a very old draft of Dr. Strange! Longtime readers will recall that I previously reviewed this script back at my now defunct site, Flixburg. Ever since Flixburg went kaput, I've received lots of e-mail from readers who'd like to find older reviews for such unproduced projects as Dr. Strange. I've now gotten the okay to republish some of them here.
This 115-page revised first draft is dated January 21st, 1986. Bob Gale, hot off his successful writing stint on Back to the Future, was commissioned to write a big-screen version of Marvel Comics' Master of the Mystic Arts. According to an interview Gale did with Starlog at the time, the project looked like a sure thing but it never came to be.
In the early 1990's, Columbia Pictures commissioned drafts from David Goyer and Jeff Welch but then lost the rights to the property. Goyer almost tackled Dr. Strange again in 2001 for Dimension Films but that also never happened.
For my own take on how to bring Dr. Strange to the big-screen, click here.
Gale's origin for the Marvel hero is faithful to his comic book counterpart. The protagonist is still renowned surgeon (and jerk) Stephen Strange, who loses the use of his skilled hands following a car accident. Strange, desperate to regain full use of his hands in order to remain a famous and wealthy surgeon, squanders his fortune by vainly traveling the world in search of a cure. Virtually broke, Strange makes a final attempt at being cured by traveling to a monastery in Nepal that is buried deep within the Himalayas.
There he encounters the Ancient One, as well as his treacherous protégé Baron Mordo. With his hands now cured, Stephen Strange gradually abandons his selfish and earthly ways in favor of studying the wondrous mystic arts the Ancient One has exposed him to. After Baron Mordo betrays and nearly kills the Ancient One, Stephen becomes the elder sorcerer's new apprentice – and a better, more heroic man for it. Dr. Strange has his mystic mettle tested when Mordo, seeking revenge upon the Ancient One, tries to establish a dimensional entranceway so that the demonic Dormammu can arrive on Earth and conquer humankind.
The first ten or so pages take place centuries ago and depict a young Ancient One (then named Tiro) as he and his master prevent a tribal priest and his cult from bringing Dormammu to earth via a human sacrifice. To raise Dormammu, the priest uses an enchanted obsidian object called Skulkane that cannot be destroyed by human hands; only Dormammu himself can destroy that which can bring him to earth.
Tiro and his master save the day but the master dies. Before he does, though, he passes the mantle onto Tiro. Dormammu swears vengeance upon Tiro before the dimensional portal snatches him away. Tiro manages to split Skulkane in two but cannot destroy it. Per his master's dying words, Tiro hides one part of Skulkane close to him for observance and dispenses with the other half.
Cut to 1980's Manhattan. Stephen Strange is nicely established as a smug Reagan-era yuppie; he is arrogant but justifiably so as he has just accomplished a record-setting bypass surgery (that dates the script right there). By the way, he is a heart surgeon here and not a neurologist as he was in the comics. Strange purchases an odd-looking brownstone in Greenwich Village and notices that the same Asian man appears each time he passes by it (turns out to be Wong, a sleeper agent of the Ancient One's).
Strange attends a high society gala at a rich art collector's home where she shows him the latest addition to her collection: the second half of Skulkane that the Ancient One had hurled into the ocean centuries before. Nobody knows what it really is, of course. Strange is inexplicably interested in this artifact; he is not alone in that, however.
A beautiful British woman named Liana is also fascinated by this portion of Skulkane. Strange, as it so happens, is also intensely interested in Liana. So much so that when she slips away from his lame advances, he hops in his red Maserati and chases after her as she flees the party.
This is when his career-ending car wreck happens. Dormammu's minions still walk the earth in the form of naked, hairy, red-eyed savages who drool green slime. (Dormammu also possesses wolves in a similar manner.) It is one of these "red-eyed savages" that Strange tries to avoid hitting that causes him to lose control of his car and become seriously injured. Although devastated by this tragedy, Stephen Strange stubbornly refuses to abandon hope.
Within two years Strange has exhausted his fortune and seemingly all possible medical and spiritual healing "cures" except for one. That mysterious Asian man who Strange always sees near his brownstone (Wong) runs an herbal shop and tells him about the Ancient One's monastery in Nepal. Spending his last $3500 to travel there, Strange is kept waiting for days before finally meeting the Ancient One. The build-up to this moment is well done and worth the wait.
We are making the leap from the world we understand and are about to enter a new world where the physical laws we accept don't necessarily apply so Gale wisely makes it a gradual, mysterious introduction. Odd colored lights emanating from under closed doors at the monastery; flashes of mystical images that could be dismissed as symptoms of physical exhaustion; even Baron Mordo seems like a pretty decent fellow when we first meet him.
In fact, it is Mordo who heals Strange's hands; as it later turns out, it was just a hypnotic trick meant to hasten Strange's departure so that Mordo could prevent the Ancient One from acquiring a new apprentice. Stephen Strange's journey from hubris to humility is a long, reluctant, but ultimately believable one and that is what makes Gale's Dr. Strange script work so well most of the time.
It is not until about page 65 that Stephen Strange accepts that the fantastic new things he has seen are indeed real. Cured by the Ancient One, Stephen could walk away from the monastery and go back to his great career and all the material gain it offers. But Stephen Strange is no longer the man he was two years ago when he had his accident. He has become a better, deeper, and more compassionate person.
With Mordo on the loose after having failed to kill the Ancient One, Strange accepts the master's offer to become his new apprentice in the practice of the mystic arts. What follows is the requisite Luke-Yoda/Jedi training sequence, complete with New Age mumbo jumbo and "young grasshopper"-like platitudes. For the most part, the "mystical" dialogue works here.
The first 70 pages are quite well done and entertaining but the script falters in the home stretch. With a potentially laughable character like Dr. Strange, I think the trick to making it all work is by applying the old adage "less is more." Leave it mysterious and awe-inspiring; explain it away and that's where you start to lose people.
Dr. Strange is a story about a heel who discovers his own humanity. The minute Gale puts Strange in the suit and has him head to Manhattan to battle Mordo, we are in comic book country and Gale starts writing a comic book, right down to the banal dialogue. It's a very sharp downward spiral. By injecting too much humor into the story's finale, Gale diminishes the threat the villains pose. Baron Mordo became a one-dimensional mystical baddie like those seen in numerous lame sword and sorcery films.
Bob Gale
Another big problem in the latter part of Dr. Strange is the way-too-late-to care re-introduction of Liana into the script. In what is the script's most exciting sequence (a variation of which I truly hope makes it into the final film some day), Strange's astral form returns to Liana's place and discovers that his body has been kidnapped by a pair of Mordo's goons. (The goons talk about wanting to get home in time to watch Dynasty!) Liana has set him up and now Strange's astral self must race across the Big Apple in order to find his body.
If a body is separated from the astral self for more than an hour then both will cease to exist. Strange's desperate search would make for a very cool special effects sequence that also packs a dramatic whallop. Needless to say, Strange recovers his human form and dispatches the goons while Liana realizes the error of her ways and now aids the hero. It's simply way too late by this point to try and inject a romantic subplot into the narrative without it feeling forced. (Please note there was no Clea in this draft.)
For the most part, Bob Gale's Dr. Strange was an entertaining interpretation of the Marvel character. Except for its lackluster third act, this was a good attempt at realizing Dr. Strange as a feature film (and much better than that 1978 TV pilot). Gale succeeded in taking one of Marvel's most potentially ludicrous film characters and making one suspend their disbelief. – STAX
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Wonder where one could get their hands on a copy of this?
http://www.docstrange.com/dsssmuseum/screenplay.asp
http://www.docstrange.com/dsssmuseum/screenplay.asp
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He's done "normal" movies though as well such as Donnie Brasco and Blow. If the script is good, he will do it it no matter how quirky the character.
But even then, I think it could be a strange (no pun intended) enough movie to get his interest as well.
oded fehr would make a great doc strange. Heck, he would've probably been a better choice for Iron Man.
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Hmm one of my suggestions was mentioned by Stax and the other is getting some votes as well. 
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Johnny Depp, Pierce Brosnan, Jim Caviezel, Billy Crudup for young Dr. Strange. Tom Selleck for older Dr. Strange.
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He's Kraven the Hunter.
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Actors do bulk up for roles. Toby did for Spider-Man.
Christian Bale did for Batman Begins.
I can't see why he couldn't either. Daniel Day-Lewis was my original pick for Kraven but Oded Fehr deserves it now more than ever.
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