10 Greatest Marvel Movies Never Made

Alongside Neil Gaiman, Wes Craven is another that has previously tried to produce a Doctor Strange movie with no success, though fans can still imagine what a spectacle it would have been.

Before Benedict Cumberbatch and Scott Derrickson came along, the character was a relative unknown with multiple cinematic versions stuck in developmental hell before being ultimately canned. One such version being worked on in the early 1990s was to be written and directed by none other than the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director.

Typically, when you think of Marvel movies these days, a director like Wes Craven couldn't be further from the family-friendly fun. However, there were elements of horror in the Multiverse of Madness, directed by another legend of the genre in Sam Raimi, and Scott Derrickson is generally known for his horror movies over anything else. Who's to say that Wes Craven at the helm of a Doctor Strange movie wouldn't have worked?

Details are scarce on the project itself, but you can guarantee this would have been unlike any other comic book movie ever. The potential for Doctor Strange to go into the weird and wonderful was disappointingly far from fully realised in his second solo MCU outing, but the potentially dark and twisted world would no doubt have been explored as much as possible had this script ever made it to screens.