It's less
than a week away from the theatrical release of Marvel Studios' on May 6,
2022, and the marketing for the film is really revving up. In a new brand-new
featurette about Elizabeth Olsen's return as Wanda Maximoff in the upcoming
sequel to 2016's Doctor Strange. For Maximoff, who finally transformed
into the Scarlet Witch at the end of the Emmy Award-winning WandaVision in
2021, the movie will also serve as sequel for the Disney+ limited series.
Doctor
Strange 2 picks up after Spider-Man: No Way Home, which saw the former Sorcerer
Supreme crack open the multiverse. The director, Sam Raimi, told, "It’s a
really complex movie. It’s probably the most complex movie I’ve ever had
anything to do with. Not just dealing with one character, or even five
characters, but multiversal versions of those characters and each one has a
storyline." Released on April 29, 2022, a new featurette gave fans a
little more information about some multiversal versions of the fan favorite
character, the Scarlet Witch.
In the
featurette, Marvel Studios head boss Kevin Feige confirms that in addition
to different
versions of Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, there will be
different versions of the Scarlet Witch. In the clip, he says, "Part of
the Madness of the Multiverse is we get to see different realities. We see
different versions primarily of Doctor Strange, but we do see other versions of
Wanda Maximoff."
It's
possible that Wanda might have to confront a nightmare version of herself in
another reality where she chose to stay in Westview, New Jersey, like the one
she created in WandaVision. Promotional clips have already teased Billy
and Tommy Maximoff's return, although they
could exist in the other reality, House of M-style. Doctor
Strange isn't the only one who might confront a zombie version of
himself, a zombielike
Scarlet Witch may also cross over from What If...?, the standalone anthology
show on Disney+, and make an appearance in Doctor Strange 2.
Speaking
about Wanda getting to meet Wanda of other realities, Raimi says, "In the
Multiverse, there are alternate versions of everyone. It gives the characters a
unique opportunity to meet themselves, to recognize qualities that they may
have been blind to." About the joys of playing so many versions of herself,
in the featurette, Olsen adds, "I think WandaVision was this
journey of her, for the first time, taking her own life into her own hands, and
it was fun transitioning from her experience to this movie. It was fun just
looking at it from a different perspective."
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