10 Things You Need To Know About Doctor Strange

Now that we have seen the trailer, here are 10 things you need to know about Marvel’s Doctor Strange before the film arrives later this year.

Christian Bone

Published: Apr 14, 2016 11:40 am

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10) His Origin Story

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All but the final shot of the trailer shows us Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange before he becomes the fully-formed Sorcerer Supreme of the comics. Going by that, then, it seems the film will indeed be an origin story for the character. And, if you can’t wait until November to find out what that is, here’s how it goes in the source material.

Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange is a brilliant – yet vain and arrogant – neurosurgeon. However, his career and life are ruined when his hands are badly injured in a car accident, leaving him unable to perform surgery. Utterly despondent and without purpose, Strange spends all his time and wealth on finding a way to put his life back on track.

He eventually finds it when he meets a mysterious hermit in Tibet…..

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Christian Bone

Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'