Tuesday, June 22, 2010

'Doctor Strange' Next For Marvel

Marvel Studios is lining up Marvel's Sorcerer Supreme 'Dr. Strange' for trip to the big screen, the studio has hired screenwriters Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to write the script for the film.

The duo wrote the upcoming Conan, video game adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and a draft of Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens.

Dr. Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme of the Marvel universe; he has unparalleled mastery of the mystic arts, which he uses to defend his reality from otherworldly threats; his primary magical patrons are a group of entities known as "the Vishanti." The Vishanti are a trinity of godly beings comprised of Agamotto, Hoggoth, and Oshtur.