“I loved Doctor Strange as a kid, but he was always after Spider-Man and Batman for me, he was probably at number five for me of great comic book characters,” Raimi said. He finally confirmed his involvement with the movie Tuesday while promoting his anthology horror series 50 States of Fright on Quibi. (He'll be credited as an executive producer.) A little while later, The Evil Dead and Spider-Man director Sam Raimi's name started circling around the project. It appears that Derrickson and Marvel were at conflict over the tone of Multiverse of Madness, culminating in Derrickson's exit from the film in early 2020.

In a twist, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige backtracked that idea in December, telling New York Film Academy students at a Q&A, 'I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a horror film, but it is, as Scott Derrickson, our director, has pitched it, it’ll be a big MCU film with scary sequences in it.' (It was previously scheduled for May 2021, but the pandemic forced Marvel Studios to reshuffle its movie slate.) The film will be a sequel to Doctor Strange, which introduced Benedict Cumberbatch to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the mystic superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.ĭoctor Strange director Scott Derrickson, who first broke into Hollywood making scary movies like The Exorcism of Emily Rose, was set to return as the director for Multiverse of Madness, a movie touted by Derrickson to be one of the first horror films in the Marvel franchise. On Tuesday, Raimi confirmed to the press that he's directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, an upcoming Marvel movie slated to be released in theaters on November 5, 2021. Marvel couldn't have done better, and one scene in 2004's Spider-Man 2 reveals exactly why. But if there is a light at the other end of the tunnel, it's the fact that we're getting a sequel to the 2016 Marvel movie Doctor Strange with none other than Sam Raimi in the director's chair.

The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe remains in flux as the novel coronavirus pandemic keeps the movie business from doing, well, any business at all.

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