With Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War just around the corner, many fans have been thinking about what’s next for the Sorcerer Supreme.
It sounds like a Doctor Strange sequel is all but guaranteed. During a recent Q&A C. Robert Cargill, who wrote the first Doctor Strange film spoke about where he thinks the team at Marvel Studios want to go with Doctor Strange 2, he said:
“Marvel movies work in threes. They also work outside of their threes. Some of the better Marvel films have more than one villain in them. Me and Scott have not laid the groundwork for it but what I can say is that I have a feeling that whatever Nightmare is involved with, Baron Mordo, being somebody who considers himself the defender of natural law will have something to do with it.”
Baron Mordo was an ally of Stephen Strange in the first film, but after feeling he left and made his way to becoming the villain that most know from the world of Marvel Comics.
“For those of you who have ever read the comics, you know that Baron Mordo has a very particular arc, and that’s something we discussed with Chiwetel while working on the first movie. And part of the reason Chiwetel wanted to play Mordo was because he has a definitive ending as a character and it’s such a fascinating ending. And I do know that whether we’re attached or not, that Marvel plans on working towards that ending and fully realizing Mordo as more than just a cardboard cutout villain, but actually taking him to kind of Loki levels of awesomeness. That’s the goal with him.”
I must admit that Cargill does have some exciting ideas for the Doctor Strange sequel and it does sound like the team at Marvel Studios are looking to go in the direction the comics with Baron Mordo where the character soon joins forces with Dormammu, who was featured in the first film.
The supervillain which Cargill speaks of having in Doctor Strange 2 is Nightmare who is the ruler of the Dream Dimension. Nightmare has the ability to draw power from the psychic energies of the subconscious minds of dreamers in their sleep.
Doctor Strange 2 sounds exciting and it looks like Marvel Studios have a clear plan as to where they would like to go with the character.
Benedict Cumberbatch will next appear as Doctor Strange in Avengers: Infinity War.