'Doctor Strange' news: Kevin Feige confirms it as an origins movie

(Marvel)Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Doctor Strange.

Finally, more details on the characters and plot of 'Doctor Strange' have been confirmed.

'Doctor Strange' had been confirmed as a film as early as 2013 but no concrete details have come out to date, save for the cast, the writer, and the director. This week, though, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige sat down with IGN and dished out details on the movie, especifically regarding Rachel McAdam's character.

Before delving into the character profiles, though, Feige made it clear that the upcoming film, based on the superhero of the same name, will be an origins movie, despite what people say about getting "origins movie fatigue." He pointed out that people are not bored of origin stories in general, but only of those "they've seen before" or "are overly familiar." The Benedict Cumberbatch starrer will definitely be neither of those.

"Doctor Strange has one of the best, most classic, most unique origin stories of any hero we have, so why wouldn't we do that? That was sort of always the plan. How you tell that origin, perhaps there are ways to twist it or play with that, but for the most part, it's a gift when the comics have something with such clarity of story and of character. That doesn't always happen in the comics, and when it does, you use it," Feige told the publication.

The Marvel Studios president further said that viewers will be introduced into Stephen Strange's world by Strange himself, but that Rachel McAdams' character will also, at some point, be the viewers' eyes. He adds that McAdams will have "a very, very big part" and will "[represent] a certain point of view of the worlds that we experience in that movie."

Aside from Cumberbatch and McAdams, the film has also cast Tilda Swinton as the classic Doctor Strange character, the Ancient One. Chiwetel Ejiofor will also appear on the film as Strange's adversary, Baron Mordo.

'Doctor Strange' is slated for release to theaters on Nov. 4, 2016.

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