It was quite surprising when it was announced that Scott Derrickson would not return to direct the second Doctor Strange film. Derrickson had directed the first Benedict Cumberbatch-led MCU movie, but he won’t be directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Instead, Sam Raimi will take the helm for the second Doctor Strange outing.
But, why did Derrickson leave the director’s chair? C. Robert Cargill co-wrote the script for the first Doctor Strange film and in a recent interview, he expanded on why Derrickson wasn’t returning to direct:
“It was creative differences. [Scott Derrickson] wanted to do one movie, and Marvel wanted to do another movie. So he sat there and said, ‘Well s***, I’ve got this great script that I wrote with Cargill, and I’m really proud of.’ We were actually going to go out to other directors for The Black Phone.”
Cargill continued:
“Scott called me up and said, ‘Dude, I have to make this movie. It’s gotta be my movie, I have to do this. Do you mind waiting until after I’m done with [Doctor Strange 2], and he really wanted to bring me onto Strange as well. But in the event that it didn’t happen, he was like, ‘Do you mind waiting?’ And I was like, ‘You know what, if you feel this passionately about it, no. I’ll wait a couple years to make this movie.'”
“Scott’s like, ‘Well, I can make this movie that I’m compromising what I wanted to do on, or I could make The Black Phone,'” Cargill explained. “It was, as he said publically, it was a hard choice to leave Strange behind; but it made it easier that he had a movie that he was looking forward to. And then the experience was just so great that we’re just are so proud and happy with what we made.”
What do you think about Derrickson’s decision to depart from making Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?
Source: IGN
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