Disney and Marvel Studios have officially released the first look of Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange sequel. First attached to the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the teaser introduced returning star Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as returning villain Mordo. The trailer also offers a glimpse of the debut of Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, best known as a member of the Young Avengers in Marvel’s comics.
Checkout the trailer below:
The footage teases that Multiverse of Madness will deal directly with the fallout from the spells Doctor Strange cast in Spider-Man: No Way Home, particularly the one that tampered with space and time, having an impact on the multiverse. We see Strange enlist the help of Wanda Maximoff, AKA Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), who’s hiding out somewhere remote after the events of WandaVision. Meanwhile, it also shows a first look at the return of Mordo, who left the Masters of the Mystic Arts at the end of the first film, and confirms an appearance of Evil Strange aka Strange Supreme, seemingly the same character introduced in Marvel’s What If…? animated series. There’s also a green alien throwing a bus in New York – quite enough to be dealing with for one movie.
There are also glimpses of Rachel McAdams’ Christine in a wedding dress, an injured Wong, and America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), who’s making her MCU debut in this movie. Based on the brief glimpses of her in the teaser, it looks like she might be playing in integral role in helping Strange bounce through different realities as he tries to clean up the mess he made by tampering with the stability of space-time in his solo film by overusing the Time Stone, Avengers: Infinity War when he got snapped, and No Way Home when his spell when haywire.
Marvel also dropped a poster that gives us a glimpse at Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, whose presence (and actions in WandaVision) loom large in the clip. Checkout the poster below:
Sam Raimi replaces Scott Derrickson in the director’s chair for the sequel, while Loki screenwriter Michael Waldron helped pen the script.
The film has undergone “significant” reshoots, according to The Hollywood Reporter, lasting six weeks, six days a week, in Los Angeles and will include both “additional photography” and “reshoots.”
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is set to hit theaters on May 6.
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