Very, very, similar. The first time I watched Venture Bros, I spent the whole time thinking, “Why is Doctor Strange on the show?” The only real difference is that Orpheus is a bit more exaggerated in his mannerisms and theatrics… but only a little bit.
Or by way of analogy: Doctor Orpheus is more similar to Doctor Strange than Team Venture is to Johnny Quest.
(FWIW, I expect movie Strange will be a little toned down since MCU characters tend to be more realistic and low-key than their comic book counterparts.)
You left out one option, which I think is the most likely: he’s already active as the Sorceror Supreme during Winter Soldier, and the Dr. Strange movie will either flashback to his origin, or just skip it altogether.
Scuttlebut is that Mikkelsen is possibly playing Magus (with the Church of Truth), although they’re really Guardians/Adam Warlock cosmic villains - maybe a tie-in for the 2nd GotG film or the Infinity War stuff?
There are pics of him in Nepal with a homeless guy beard, so we’re getting an origin story.
Unfortunately there also appear to be pics of him in costume with blood on his face, so there may be some punching in this movie too, which is uncharacteristic of Doctor Strange.
IIRC, in the current series, normal food nauseates him (apparently due to the changes wrought on his body by long-term use of magic). Eating weird / hideous stuff is either (a) what tastes good to him, or (b) provides what he needs to keep going (the book shows that he is essentially on constant duty, fighting off mystic threats to our dimension).
Wow, what a letdown going from that superlatively plotted, written and drawn original by Ditko and Lee to the horrible Straczynski version that follows! I do hope the movie will be worthy of this great great character. (Anybody remember the film version starring John Mills? It was truly dire.)
Well, sure, but it’s not coincidence. Stan Lee presumably picked the character’s name because it sounds like a mystical super-hero. If he’d been “Dr. Greenblatt,” then he probably wouldn’t be out there under his real name.
I vaguely remembered watching is as a kid, and not long ago, I found it on YouTube and watched it again. If you are in a forgiving mood, it is kind of fun. Of all of Marvel’s attempts at live-action superhero films in the 1970s, it is the least bad.
Bear in mind, it is a low-budget TV movie, in an era of primitive special effects. Given their budget constraints, I am inclined to be forgiving of their attempt to bring to life one of Ditko’s weird otherworlds. They also made a conscious effort to NOT make Wong a stereotype.
Yes, I’m aware of that. I should have made clear that I meant ‘going from’ as in the linked strip. The original is followed immediately on the next page by the Straczynski version. It’s jarring reading the one and then straight after the other.
I assumed they were doing a Dr. Strange movie because he has some connection to those magic stones that Thantos (I think that’s the guy) wants to collect. Like we got Guardians of the Galaxy because it introduced the power stone things and Thantos.
I’m also assuming Captain Marvel has something to do with the stones.
So am I right? What connection does Dr. Strange have to the other characters already filmed in the Marvelverse?
