PREVIEW: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog), Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Benedict Wong (The Personal History of David Copperfield), Xochitl Gomez (Shadow Wolves), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), Patrick Stewart (Logan), Topo Wresniwiro (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil), Mark Anthony Brighton (Green Street), Julian Hilliard (Colour Out of Space), Jett Klyne (Skyscraper)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead), director; Michael Waldron (film debut), writer; Kevin Feige (Black Panther), producer; Danny Elfman (Spider-Man 2), composer; John Mathieson (Logan), cinematographer; Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker) and Tia Nolan (Friends with Benefits), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After casting a forbidden spell, former surgeon and mystic arts master Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) unwittingly opens up the multiverse, wherein a deadly adversary poses a strong threat to humanity. Teaming up with Wanda Maximoff (Olsen), Wong (Wong) and powerful teen America Chavez (Gomez), Strange journeys through the multiverse and discovers its many horrors…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The Marvel multiverse is well and truly opened, and waiting to be explored by none other than Doctor Strange in an all-encompassing epic that contains a lot of surprises which are destined to please long-time comic fans.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 5TH MAY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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