Doctor Strange Writer Coming Back for the Sequel

Scott Derrickson is coming back to direct the Doctor Strange sequel, and it looks like we're going to have someone familiar working on the script as well.

Accpording to That Hashtag Show, original Doctor Strange screenwriter C. Robert Cargill will be coming back to pen the sequel. Cargill has also worked with Derrickson in Sinister, and he did have this to say about Doctor Strange 2 last year (via Flickering Myth):

"Nightmare will be the villain. 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. 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."

Though Doctor Strange was a very visually dazzling movie, it did get a lot of criticism for basically being IronMan with magic. Hopefully Cargill and Derrickson are able to bring something entirely new with this sequel. I sure am hoping to see a more memorable Mordo than the one we got in the last film.

The writer I actually wanted to see come back was Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community) who was said to have been hired by Marvel to add a little humor to the film. While I thought the jokes in Strange were a bit underwhelming, I would have wanted to see some of that Rick and Morty multiverse craziness in a sequel. Then again, maybe Harmon couldn't work on this film seeing as he has to work on Rick and Morty 4.

A release date for Doctor Strange 2 has not been officially announced.

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