After creeping out audiences with films like Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose , director Scott Derrickson aims to blow their minds with the trippy Doctor Strange , the new effect-filled Marvel superhero story. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as an arrogant surgeon who is embittered by a car accident that leaves his hands mangled, the movie sends his titular character eastward on a journey of discovery, where he becomes embroiled in a spell-casting war between the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and a rogue pupil Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen). Derrickson recently sat down with Vulture to discuss how he kept all those spells straight, how willing he was to make Strange seem like a dick, and how far he had to go to simply win the directing job. I appreciate that this movie is not just an origin story for Doctor Strange's powers, but his entire look. He adds bits and pieces to it so gradually — the goatee, the cloak, the jewelry — that is isn't until he ends up in a prosaic New York hospital that you're like, "Oh my God, he looks like an insane person." I was wondering, by the end of the film, whether Strange has made… Read full this story
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