10 Weirdest Moments In The Early Days Of Marvel Movies
6. Dr Strange Goes To Hell, Meets Cats
Part of the delay in Marvel getting certain characters to the screen has been waiting to get back the rights to do so. For a long time, with comics sales floundering, they used to just sell off the rights to make movies to just about anyone. Which is why, when Benedict Cumberbatch finally makes his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it won't be the first movie starring Doctor Stephen Strange. Instead that dubious honour goes to the 1978 Dr Strange television film, which was created as a pilot for a proposed TV series, with Stan Lee himself serving as a consultant. The eponymous Sorcerer Supreme was played by Peter Hooten, a television veteran who popped up in episodes of The Waltons, as well as the original Inglorious Bastards. Hopefully the new Doctor Strange movie will have a bigger effects budget, magical fire fights between Strange and his various mystical villains surely making for some brilliant set pieces. Comparatively, the cheapo seventies movie's biggest scene of conflict is a baddie possessing a cat to break into a wizard's house, only to be repelled by a magic barrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHq54p8Czgg Maybe avoid this one.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
