WandaVision: Original Role of Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange Revealed

SAY NO TO DOCTOR STRANGE

In an interview with Rolling Stone, via Movie Web, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige commented on the absence of Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange the WandaVision Disney+ series. In fact, Feige confirmed that a deal was even finalized between Cumberbatch and Marvel to appear in the season's final episode. 

Feige shared a clear reason why Cumberbatch's Stephen Strange never made the cut. 

"Some people might say,'Oh, it would've been so cool to Doctor Strange. But it would have taken away from Wanda. We didn't want the end of the show to be commoditized to go to the next movie - here's the white guy, 'Let me show you how power works."

The Marvel producer went on to reveal that the commercials which appeared in Episodes 1-3 and 5-7 were originally intended to be subtle messages sent to Wanda by Stephen Strange, who would've been attempting to get through to the Scarlet Witch from the outside of her sitcom reality madness.

Feige also shared that the revision of WandaVision's finale without Doctor Strange also meant a rewrite of parts of Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness, which will see Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda in a leading role. The rewrites of Doctor Strange 2 were described by Feige as "[a] wonderful combination of very dedicated coordination, and chaos. Chaos magic."

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