Ever since Stephen Strange accidentally unleashed the Multiverse in NWH, Marvel fans knew a full-blown multiversal war in the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness would be no joke.
With the Doctor Strange sequel less than two months away, new stills and covers for Empire Magazine have teased the film’s grandiosity yet again.
The new images tease an uncertain future for Strange as he’s seen in handcuffs, presumably having to appear in front of MCU’s Illuminati.
The background suggests that this is where we’d get to meet Patrick Stewart’s Professor X for the first time in the MCU – based on THAT voice that shook everyone when the trailer dropped.
However, one of the images also shows that Benedict Cumberbatch’s sorcerer isn’t the only one in custody/confinement, and in another transparent cell next to him is newcomer America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez).
It seems like this lab-like room where the two heroes are held might possibly be in one of the alternate universes as fans on Twitter spotted that it was the same room that featured Christine Palmer and Wanda’s variants from the trailer.
In the Empire interview, Cumberbatch promised a big and ambitious movie. The actor added that the film will see Strange change as a person with “a lot of reckoning and self-discovery” and have a really shocking ending with “unexpected conclusions.”
It’s going to be an absolute riot. And if it brings off the level of ambition it’s got, we’re going to have a success on the level of Spidey. There you go, I’ll put my flag in the sand.
As for the magazine’s May issue cover, one of the posters sneaked in a T-Rex falling through a portal, hinting at Savage Land, which was also teased in a sequence from the trailer that saw Strange and Chavez pass through a tropical prehistoric portal.
Yet dinosaurs are the last thing our heroes will need to worry about.
Producer Richie Palmer told D23 Magazine about how the film will embrace its “madness” and the kind of strange variants Stephen will have to encounter along the way (via CB).
Maybe Stephen meets a few of these guys and wonders, “Oh, am I capable of what that person’s capable of? Are they capable of what I’m capable of?” And that can be maddening. Seeing other versions of yourself make decisions that you would not make can, for better or worse, be maddening- whether that’s for Doctor Strange, for Wanda, or for any of our characters… Sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones that dwell within us. And with the Multiverse, maybe some versions of us are more monstrous than others.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness arrives in theatres on May 6, 2022.
About Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the sequel to the 2016 movie Doctor Strange. The film is directed by Sam Raimi with a screenplay by Jade Bartlett and Michael Waldron.
It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Xochitl Gomez.
The sequel revolves around the dangerous consequences of Doctor Strange opening the multiverse.
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