Doctor Strange 2 Casting To Pay Off THAT MCU Fan Theory?

Bruce Campbell might just be appearing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness...

by Ewan Paterson

If you're a Marvel fan - or perhaps more specifically a Sam Raimi Spider-Man fan - you may have been following WandaVision along and lamenting how everyone is saying "Mephisto this" and "Mephisto that", but not "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness this" or "Bruce Campbell that". (It's a thought I'm sure many of you have been having.)

Well, lament that no longer, because it looks as though frequent Raimi collaborator Bruce Campbell could be set for an appearance in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel, which will place Benedict Cumberbatch's Sorcerer Supreme and Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch in the MCU's first horror oriented effort directed by Raimi.

In a tweet posted by the actor last Saturday, Campbell said that "it was a blast, working in a certain city, with a certain director on a certain movie with a certain actor". The tweet also included a rather lovely image of the London skyline at dusk, which is interesting because that's the same city where principal photography has begun on Raimi's Doctor Strange sequel.

Given Campbell's connection to Raimi (the pair have collaborated on no less than twelve films together and are also close friends), it puts the theory that he is involved in the next Doctor Strange film in good stead. But what role could he possibly be playing, and is there a chance Raimi could use the opportunity to finally resolve some unfinished business with his ill-fated fourth Spider-Man film?

Right now, the possibilities are somewhat limitless. We know the next phase of the MCU is going to have a heavy focus on the multiverse (pending the conclusion of WandaVision and on the slow trickle of information surrounding Spider-Man: No Way Home), and that opens up all sorts of opportunities for Raimi to use Campbell in Doctor Strange.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.