One of the films I’m most excited about in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Phase 4 is director Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. This movie is said to have huge ramifications on the MCU, and it’s been said that it will crack open the multiverse. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige previously said:
“The multiverse is the next step in the evolution of the MCU and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is going to crack it open in ways that will have repercussions for a Disney+ series before it that’s not WandaVision and for movies after it in a big fun way.”
The movie is also going to tie in with both the WandaVision and Loki TV shows that are coming to Disney+, and we’ve heard that there will be horror elements in the film. But while speaking as a guest at the New York Film Academy, Feige recently clarified that it will not be a horror movie, but “it’ll be a big MCU film with scary sequences in it.” He goes on to explain that kind of horror we can expect from the film:
“Multiverse of Madness is the greatest title we’ve ever come up with, by the way, which is one thing that’s exciting about it. I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a horror film, but … it’ll be a big MCU film with scary sequences in it.
“I mean, there are horrifying sequences in Raiders that I as a little kid would [cover my eyes] when their faces melted. Or Temple of Doom, of course, or Gremlins, or Poltergeist. These are the movies that invented the PG-13 rating, by the way. They were PG and then they were like, ‘We need another [rating].’ But that’s fun. It’s fun to be scared in that way, and not a horrific, torturous way, but a way that is legitimately scary — because Scott Derrickson is quite good at that — but scary in the service of an exhilarating emotion.”
Sounds good to me! I’m very much looking forward to seeing what horror elements will be featured in the film and how those scary things end up being incorporated into the story.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hits theaters on May 7, 2021.