Doctor Strange 2 Release Date, Cast, Rumors And News

Prior to Derrickson’s departure, and due to Marvel’s silence following it, fans presumed that the director and his original co-writer C. Robert Cargill did, at some point, have some substantial influence on the script for the sequel, but Cargill has now revealed that this is simply not true. Neither he nor Derrickson “had the opportunity” to work on it at all.

Since it keeps coming up in news stories, it's worth noting that Scott and I never had the opportunity to write a draft of MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS, so whatever they are working with now isn't derivative of our work.I am of course very excited to see where they take Stephen next.

— C. Robert Cargill (@Massawyrm) February 8, 2020

Doctor Strange 2 Villain

Before he stepped off the project, ex-director Derrickson made no secret of the villain he’d like to see emerge in Doctor Strange 2. “I really like the character of Nightmare and the concept [of] the Nightmare Realm” he told IGN. “That’s early – that’s like the first Strange tale. I think that’s in the introductory episode of Doctor Strange, and I always loved that.”

Certainly we’ll get another encounter with Dormammu, as well, right?

Doctor Strange 2 Characters

Original screenwriter Jon Spaihts first hinted we might finally get to meet Clea on the screen in Doctor Strange 2. There’s a catch, though. 

“She’s a tricky character to interpret because her uncle is a kind of fire-headed omnipotent god and she’s kind of a hot babe who studies magic,” Mr. Spaihts told CBR. “That’s a tricky relationship to bring out of a comic book and on to a movie screen. But she’s a really compelling character as a foil, a love interest, a colleague of Doctor Strange’s, and she always carries with her that width of mystery as to whether she is human, and how human, and what that means for his relationship to her. So we might find a way to introduce her to the story.”

Well, that kind of explains why we didn’t see her already. We have our own list of characters we’d like to see show up in the sequel, as well, but regardless, Clea is overdue for her closeup.

Other rumored character inclusions include Jericho Drumm, Brother Voodoo!