Sam Raimi reveals he didn't think a DoctorStrange movie would be made. '[Doctor Strange] was like a second or third tier character for Marvel. Obviously, their big popular names were Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Captain America, Thor.'
Sam Raimi reveals he never thought a Doctor Strange movie would be made given the character's lack of name popularity at Marvel Studios. After making his name in the horror genre, Raimi would try his hand at the comic book world by creating his own hero with 1990's Darkman after failing to secure the rights to both The Shadow and Batman.
Raimi is returning to the comic book world with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Phase Four's dive into alternate reality storytelling.
"[Doctor Strange] was like a second or third tier character for Marvel. Obviously, their big popular names were Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Captain America, Thor. And because none of those other movies were being made, I actually never imagined they would make a Doctor Strange movie. Just seemed far from possible."
As Raimi notes, many of the characters the MCU has helped popularize were considered low-tier prior to their interconnected adventures, Doctor Strange being one of them. Marvel Studios started tapping a variety of writers to help develop their lesser-known properties as both the first Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk proved to be successes, with some including Black Panther, Cable, Iron Fist and Vision.
While Raimi may have never thought a Doctor Strange movie would be made, it didn't keep him from sneaking a reference to the character in Spider-Man 2 as J.K. Simmons' J. Jonah Jameson and Ted Raimi's Ted Hoffman tried to come up with a name for Otto Octavius, initially posing Doctor Strange before remembering it's taken.
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