dr. strangers original director scott
derrickson reacts to the Sam Raimi news
for dr. strange in the multiverse of
madness let's just say it's been a bumpy
ride so far when it was announced last
month that the sequel had lost original
Doctor Strange director scott derrickson
over creative differences many in the
Marvel community were upset and dismayed
by this news they were riding high on
the promise from last year's San Diego
Comic Con where derrickson revealed that
dr. strange too would be the marvel
cinematic universes first scary film and
many were giddy with excitement over
this prospect because after nearly two
dozen films after 10 years there's been
a growing criticism amongst fans that
Marvel Studios has been producing movies
that are a bit too similar and feel too
alike in tone to one another so this
fresh prospect of seeing a actual horror
film happened within the Marvel Universe
had fans genuinely pumped so when
derrickson announced he was leaving the
project as director even though he's
remaining on as executive producer fears
began to surface that Marvel would back
off of its claim that the multiverse of
madness would be a true horror film but
those fears worse waged this week when
Variety reported that horror and
superhero film icon Sam Raimi was in
talks to take over as director for
Doctor Strange - and it's no hyperbole
to say that it's hard to find any Marvel
fan who was not 100% down for this
prospect and I mean who can blame them
just look at the guys resume Sam Raimi
arguably kicked off the modern-day
version of superhero films with his
spider-man trilogy from 2002 to 2007
which is we all know start Tobey Maguire
as the titular spider-man your friendly
neighborhood spider-man
and while spider-man 3 had its fair
share of problems most would consider
spider-man 2 to be one of the best
superhero films of all time Pizza time
luckily fans aren't the only ones
excited by this news in fact former
Doctor Strange director scott derrickson
also weighed in with his thoughts about
this update in a tweet on thursday
derrickson said I've worked with Sam
Raimi one of the nicest people I've
known in the film business and as a
director a true living legend what a
great choice to take over Doctor Strange
now let's break down this tweet piece by
piece to see what it really means if you
look at the part of I'm just kidding
it's really obvious that derrickson
feels the same way about the possibility
of Raimi helming this sequel that we all
do
look derrickson is still an executive
producer on multiverse of madness and
stands to make a lot of money if the
film does well so he's not gonna say
anything bad about it but if he actually
had misgivings he probably would have
just stayed silent about this whole
thing he didn't have to tweet that he
wanted to so what can we expect from Sam
Raimi if he is indeed taking up this
mantle as the film's new director well
first of all reportedly Sam Raimi is a
massive Doctor Strange fan he even put a
Doctor Strange easter egg in spider-man
2 Doctor Strange
that's pretty good but it's taken and
fans who were afraid of Marvel dialing
back the horror and the multiverse of
madness are breathing a sigh of relief
because Sam Raimi as we mentioned is a
horror icon both as a director and a
producer with notable films like The
Evil Dead trilogy and drag me to hell
under his belt and anyone who doubts his
superhero bona fides only need look to
spider-man 1 and 2 and that dance scene
in spider-man 3 that was that was a fun
moment in time a big on this but what
does Sam Raimi think about all of this
well he hasn't actually commented on
this particular development yet but in a
2015 interview with the week he said
this about directing another spider-man
film that fits within the MCU as a whole
I think they're so complete now Marvel
they probably don't need me anymore but
if they needed me I'd love to it's great
to be wanted all-in-all Raimi seems like
the safest and frankly the best choice
for both Marvel and for fans of Doctor
Strange he's talented he has a personal
connection to the comic book source
material and he already has the blessing
of dr. Strange's former Stewart but
we'll just have to wait and see if or
when Marvel confirms Raimi as the
director for Doctor Strange of the
multiverse of madness in the days and
weeks ahead but in the meantime tell me
what do you folks think do you want to
see Sam Raimi take over Doctor Strange
in the multiverse of madness what's your
favorite Sam Raimi film and what's your
favorite quote from his spider-man
trilogy and why is it Pizza time Pizza
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