Report: Sam Raimi May Take Doctor Strange for One More Magical Spin

After helming the Spider-Man trilogy successful the 2000s, Sam Raimi made his instrumentality to the superhero abstraction successful 2022 with Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness. Divisive arsenic it could be, it made rather a batch of money, and it led to folks wondering if the manager would extremity up doing much Marvel work, similar say, an Avengers movie oregon possibly even a fourth Spider-Man. Neither of those person ended up happening yet, but it sounds similar helium mightiness beryllium returning to bent with Stephen Strange erstwhile more.

According to Jeff Sneider, Raimi is “definitely” returning to nonstop what’s present simply titled Doctor Strange 3. With so much going on, you wouldn’t beryllium incorrect reasoning Marvel would support Strange connected crystal for different six years. But if this is true, it sounds similar it’s due to the fact that Raimi is each successful connected Marvel Studios; Sneider claims the manager had a beauteous bully clip connected Multiverse, and a woody is “all but closed” astatine this constituent successful clip to get him back. What’s unclear is however this’ll acceptable into his schedule: Raimi signed connected to nonstop and nutrient the distant land thriller Send Help for 20th Century Studios backmost successful July. But astatine clip of writing, that’s been the lone existent quality for that movie, truthful helium could perchance prioritize and absorption connected Strange, oregon sound retired Send Help before diving backmost into the Marvel pool.

Either way, Multiverse of Madness ended with 1 hellhole of a setup for an eventual threequel. After Wanda’s sacrifice herself, Strange took a bully stroll done New York…where helium collapsed successful the mediate of the thoroughfare and screamed arsenic a 3rd oculus manifested successful the mediate of his forehead. (Ow.) In the mid-credits scene, he’s abruptly approached by Clea (Charlize Theron), his aboriginal emotion involvement (and Dormammu’s niece) who enlists him to assistance hole the multiversal incursion helium accidentally started earlier successful the film.

If Raimi is acceptable to travel back, it continues the inclination of near-every MCU franchise having astatine slightest 1 returning manager during their runs. With luck, Marvel volition uncover much accusation about Doctor Strange 3—such arsenic its authoritative rubric and who’s coming backmost from the erstwhile movie—in the adjacent future.

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