8 Superhero Films That Nearly Had Completely Different Directors
3. Doctor Strange - Guillermo Del Toro
Doctor Strange is another superhero who received a solid but not particularly inspired transition to the screen. Whilst Scott Derrickson's 2016 creation was rich with visual artistry, it was slight on, well, strangeness, missing some of the alluring mysticism of the source material.
It stands to reason, then, that legendary fantasists Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro (with their track records of strange, dark and magical creations) might have better suited the franchise.
And this isn't completely fanciful, as the writer and director pitched their own version of Doctor Strange in 2007, dreamt up on the set of Hellboy. It sounds like their pitch was perhaps a little too odd for Marvel's tastes; Del Toro was drawn to the comic's depiction of the occult and didn't want Strange wearing a suit.
Although the studio did ultimately decline, it's not hard to imagine a director of Del Toro's clout being gifted the franchise. One can only dream...