Doctor Strange: Marvel Studios Filming in Europe Next Year.
With director Scott Derrickson having been announced months ago (with sources saying that he's likely been tied to the project since as early as January), and Joaquin Phoenix rumored for the lead role as well as being reported to have purchased a handful of Doctor Strange comics in person recently, it only seems fitting that the next part of the process would be to begin planning out locations and the film schedule.
According to new reports, Marvel Studios will begin production in May 2015 for the July 16th, 2016 release date, which while the date is not confirmed, connecting the dots between what Studio President Kevin Feige has revealed has lead us to believe so. May 2015 will be a very busy month for Marvel Studios, as Avengers: Age of Ultron and Marvel's Daredevil will be getting their premieres, which one can only expect to have massive repercussions throughout the combined cinematic universe. Earlier this year, Feige stated:
So Strange is very, very important, not just because its an amazing character study, and a journey of a man whos gone from this very arrogant surgeon to somebody who is quite zen and literally keeps all of reality together on a daily basis, but it also is going to open up a whole other side of storytelling for our movies. So were about to hire a writer to redo a draft, and we think well be casting probably in the next month or two, and announcing an actor, and then we get into production in the spring of next year.
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