![]() In the many multiversal possibilities for what this film could have been, one version of the script presumably centered on a mentor relationship between Doctor Stephen Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch) and America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a burgeoning teen superhero whose multiverse-hopping powers kick the story into action. The plotting is clunky, the exposition is non-stop and the rules of magic seem to change with each scene, as the film introduces one new Big Magic Term after another. Indeed, Raimi himself - who helped kick off the modern superhero trend with his Tobey Maguire-led "Spider-Man" movies back in the aughts - was brought onboard fairly last minute after original director Scott Derrickson left the project due to "creative differences." And "Multiverse of Madness" feels very much like a movie that was assembled on the fly, Frankensteined together from multiple contradictory drafts based on shifting MCU release dates and possible future needs of an ever-mutating franchise. That’s perhaps not a surprise given that screenwriter/"Loki'" scribe Michael Waldron was reportedly still rewriting the script as Raimi was filming. Stephen Strange in Marvel Studios' DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS.
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