After Bob Gales draft fell through, the Doctor Strange film rights bounced around from studio to studio for many years. At one point Wes Craven was attached to write and direct a Doctor Strange film in the early '90s. In the hands of the man who first brought genre fanatics Freddy Krueger and Nightmare On Elm Street, who knows what kind of sorcerer cinema fans could have ended up with. Eventually, superhero screenwriter supreme, David S. Goyer ended up taking over Cravens role, after the script had hot-potatoed away from Craven and into the hands of half of Hollywood. Goyer ultimately dropped out of the project around 2002, with Guilermo del Toro and Neil Gaiman later touted as a potential director/writer duo. It took until 2010 for that to fizzle out as well, before Kevin Feige took control and pulled together the totally different Doctor Strange team who are currently working on the film adaptation you'll be seeing in theaters sooner rather than later.
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