# Doctor Strange trailer out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072 "2016-04-13T09:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/1 "2016-04-13T09:46:51Z")
[Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwcSki7r9cQ&feature=youtu.be) Any thoughts? I know very little about the character, but it looks like Marvel mashing together \*Batman Begins, the Matrix \*and _Inception_, headed by Cumberbatch doing Hugh Laurie’s \*House \*accent. Looks cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/2 "2016-04-13T09:54:56Z")
I love it. It’s certainly something different from the usual superhero movie, and I think that’s great. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/3 "2016-04-13T11:17:53Z")
Looks great, though I definitely thought, “Oh, Marvel riffs on Christopher Nolan!” How meta. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/4 "2016-04-13T11:30:29Z")
That looks fun! And yeah, could he sound _more_ like Hugh Laurie in that voice over?? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/5 "2016-04-13T12:09:18Z")
He’s a Brit going for an American accent, he could be doing a lot worse than Hugh Laurie playing Dr. House. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/6 "2016-04-13T12:21:03Z")
I personally think it’s a terrible accent, but I thought the same with Hugh Laurie, yet America lapped it up without question (in fact with surprised praise when they realised) so clearly my opinion is irrelevant. The theory he seems to have adopted is, do what works. ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/7 "2016-04-13T12:29:57Z")
I certainly was not expecting a cue-ball Tilda Swinton. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/8 "2016-04-13T12:56:56Z")
Time and again I’m impressed how Marvel can juggle all these superhero franchises and make each one feel different that the others in tone and feel. _Dr. Strange_ doesn’t look like _Ant Man_ or _Captain America_ or _Guardians of the Galaxy_. I’m looking forward to this one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/9 "2016-04-13T13:16:20Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Time and again I’m impressed how Marvel can juggle all these superhero franchises and make each one feel different that the others in tone and feel. _Dr. Strange_ doesn’t look like _Ant Man_ I’m looking forward to this, but danged if you didn’t just make me picture a wisecracking Paul Rudd getting mystical instruction from the Ancient One – as played by Michael Peña, who heard all of this second-hand from some _fine_ fine, like _stupid_ fine chick who’s got mad connects with the peeps behind the curtains, y’know what I’m saying? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/10 "2016-04-13T13:17:29Z")
So, it is an origins story. I thought that Marvel wasn’t doing those anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/11 "2016-04-13T13:28:04Z")
I see no reason to object to an origins story _done well_. What I get annoyed about is when the “origin story” seems to be a formulaic requirement or done and re-done over and over. Doctor Strange is not as well known as, say, Captain America. I think a well done origin story might be a little necessary for a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/12 "2016-04-13T13:36:40Z")
Yeah, I don’t think it’s out of place to have an origin story for Doctor Strange. I’m a nerd but I know nothing about him whatsoever. Plus, this is the first Marvel film to rely heavy on mysticism/magic (I mean, Thor hand waved all magic away with “they’re so technologically advanced that it seems like magic”). Usually, I will concede, that origin stories aren’t necessary. We know how Superman came to the planet, Batman’s parents were killed, and Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/13 "2016-04-13T13:37:13Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > So, it is an origins story. I thought that Marvel wasn’t doing those anymore. > [@Broomstick](#): > > I see no reason to object to an origins story _done well_. What I get annoyed about is when the “origin story” seems to be a formulaic requirement or done and re-done over and over. > > Doctor Strange is not as well known as, say, Captain America. I think a well done origin story might be a little necessary for a lot of people. Yeah, there’s a difference between seeing Thomas and Martha Wayne and/or Uncle Ben being killed for the 1000th time, and showing how a relatively unknown character became who he is for the first time on screen ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/14 "2016-04-13T13:59:27Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m looking forward to this, but danged if you didn’t just make me picture a wisecracking Paul Rudd getting mystical instruction from the Ancient One – as played by Michael Peña, who heard all of this second-hand from some _fine_ fine, like _stupid_ fine chick who’s got mad connects with the peeps behind the curtains, y’know what I’m saying? damnit… get oughta my head. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/15 "2016-04-13T14:34:46Z")
Trailer is intriguing, although the _Matrix_ and _Inception_ bits are obvious. I read DS a little as a kid but remember very little about him, so I have no objection to a well-done origin story. Cumberpatch is good in just about anything, and this looks like a distinctly different role from Sherlock Holmes and Alan Turing. I’m sure I’ll see the movie unless the reviews are totally sucky. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/16 "2016-04-13T14:38:04Z")
So Rachel McAdams must be Night Nurse? And now I’m wondering how they’ll get Strange, Stark and her together in a future movie and make some obscure Holmes reference. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/17 "2016-04-13T14:58:00Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So Rachel McAdams must be Night Nurse? And now I’m wondering how they’ll get Strange, Stark and her together in a future movie and make some obscure Holmes reference. I thought Rosario Dawson had been established as Night Nurse? When I saw Rachel McAdams, my first thought was please don’t let her be Clea! Was that Chiwetel Ejifar in there also? Has Tilda Swinton ever spoken on being the androgynous go-to for every movie? I’m sure it pays the bills but it must suck sometimes. Of course, I haven’t seen every movie she’s ever done. Anyway… I am starting to look forward to this and I hope it does well. Especially if we can can Umar and Dormammu for part two. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/18 "2016-04-13T15:09:59Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I thought Rosario Dawson had been established as Night Nurse? I think people assumed she was, but Marvel never confirmed or denied. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/19 "2016-04-13T15:22:28Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I thought Rosario Dawson had been established as Night Nurse? Not really. The character was originally written as Night Nurse but the Daredevil showrunner said that “…the feature side had plans for her down the road.” So they called the character Claire Temple instead of Linda Carter (or the other names). Claire Temple was a doctor in Luke Cage. > **[Night Nurse (comics)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Nurse_(comics)#In_other_media)** > > Night Nurse is a comic-book series published by Marvel Comics in the early 1970s. Linda Carter, one of the series' three central characters, previously was the lead of an earlier Marvel series, Linda Carter, Student Nurse, published in 1961. Other central characters included Georgia Jenkins and Christine Palmer; both Linda Carter and Christine Palmer would later be explicitly incorporated into the larger 616 Marvel Universe comics. > Carter later adopted the name Night Nurse for herself, and in th... ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072/20 "2016-04-13T15:37:39Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Not really. The character was originally written as Night Nurse but the Daredevil showrunner said that “…the feature side had plans for her down the road.” So they called the character Claire Temple instead of Linda Carter (or the other names). Claire Temple was a doctor in Luke Cage. > > [Night Nurse (comics) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Nurse_(comics)#In_other_media) Ah. The only time I vaguely recall Night Nurse was Power Man and Iron Fist. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her with Dr. Strange. Which means nothing of course, since Strange had several series of his own as well as the Defenders. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-trailer-out/752072.md?page=2)