HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 28, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) — “Hannibal” star Mads Mikkelsen will once again be the bad guy. He’s been cast in Marvel’s new superhero movie, “Doctor Strange,” which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the Sorcerer Supreme. In the comic books Dr. Strange is the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Marvel Studios president and “Doctor Strange” producer Kevin Feige explained, “We will take audiences through sort of a guide to the multiverse, other dimensions, and there are amazing things out there — wonders that are going to be hopefully visually extremely interesting and unique to this movie.”
He continued, “But there are also very scary things in these other dimensions.” According to Feige, is the job of sorcerers like Strange and the Ancient One, played by Tilda Swinton, to protect humanity from such “scary things.”
”So, where does Mikkelsen’s antagonist fit in, exactly? “Mads’ character is a sorcerer who breaks off into his own sect,” said the Marvel Studios boss. “[He] believes that the ‘Ancient One’ is just protecting her own power base and that the world may be better off if we were to allow some of these other things through.”
EW also reports, although Broussard and Feige are happy to talk about the nature of Mikkelsen’s role, they are not, at present, revealing the actual name of his character. “I’ve seen lots of names thrown around,” says Broussard. “No one has quite picked the name that we’ve chosen for him. It would be fun to conceal that, if we can.”
