It seems somebody's finally listening to the complaints about movie origin stories: "Marvel's 'Doctor Strange' Movie May Not Bother With the Sorcerer Supreme's Origin"
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I think that's a great idea. Origins are overdone, and not many are that great to begin with.
I agree, they tend to take up the first 3rd of the movie.
Maybe they'll start him already a wizard and show some flashbacks to his past? This is sort of like the comic book character. We saw three of his adventures before Stan said "we forgot to give his origin!" The next Fantastic Four film might want to follow FF#1 and show them in action first then explain how they got that way. Made them look like they'd been around for awhile and we just hadn't seen them before.
Ron M. said:
The next Fantastic Four film might want to follow FF#1 and show them in action first then explain how they got that way. Made them look like they'd been around for awhile and we just hadn't seen them before.
I gather Doctor Strange will be from Marvel Studios. The FF movie will be from Fox, so they might still try to do the origin. I hope not. As an example, the first Star Wars movie gave us text to read (superimposed over an enormous starship) and then dumped us into the middle of the conflict (and the movie did OK).
The James Bond series went for FORTY YEARS before we saw his origin.
Did we need to see his origin?
An origin can be good if you can see the character grow into the roll, I thought Batman Begins was good in that, but bad if it limits the movie to the three act structure of origin/establish heroic persona/face villain (who might have had an origin in the same movie) for a grand climax fight. That sort of structure is starting to wear thin for me.
Ron M. said:
I guess it depends on if you liked the movie or not. I loved it.
Since I wasted my time and money on Amazing Spider-man. I am, for the most part, going to avoid superhero origins at the theater.
Doctor Strange's origin could be a movie in and of itself. Showing Doc before his accident, his decline after it, his quest for the Ancient One (I nominate George Takei!), his rivalry with Baron Mordo (I nominate Sean Bean) and his epiphany about his life seems like a complete film to me.
Odd the original movie picked John Mills for the Ancient One. Was Keye Luke asking for too much money? Or had the studio promised Mills a part and didn't care where they put him? The actor playing Strange had an echo when he spoke so his voice was probably dubbed.
For Strange we need somebody flamboyant and larger than life like Vincent Price was. The guy playing him in The House on Haunted Hill remake vaguely looked like him, but he's probably a lot older than they want (63 according to wikipedia, which also says he was the voice of Tomar-Re in Green Lantern, so at least he's done some comic book work.) Sean Bean's the right age but I think Mordo should be a more heavyset fellow, He always seemed kind of fat to me.
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