Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be scarier thanks to pandemic delays says writer Michael Waldron. Waldron has been promoting Loki on Disney+ but often is asked about his next Marvel project which is the Doctor Strange sequel. New director Sam Raimi and writer Waldron were brought on board when Scott Derrickson left for creative reasons.
Waldron recently chatted with the Friends From Work podcast. You can catch the full interview below. However here is what Waldron said regarding using the pandemic as a positive to refine the story into something a little scarier. He began by praising the mood Derrickson set with the first movie.
“Going into the horror world is] obviously something that Scott Derrickson, the director of the first movie, does so well…obviously that influence, you feel it in the first one. Even though it’s not a horror movie, there is like this sort of spookiness throughout it. It’s part of what makes that movie work so well.”
“The work Derrickson had done on the first one, the work that he and the previous writer on the second one, Jade Bartlett, they’ve done some work on the second one, and it’s like you just dive in.”
“In this case, COVID just gave me and Sam more time to make it our own thing,” Waldron added. “It’s cool, I’m glad that there was the chance to maybe push in a slightly scarier direction. Just because Sam does that so well.”
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Interesting as a lot of the rumors around Derrickson’s departure at the time were because he wanted to make it scarier than Marvel wanted. To be fair, since then we’ve heard that another big aspect of the decision was that Derrickson really wanted to work on another project, closer to his heart.
I’ve often wondered just how scary a Marvel movie could go and yet maintain that Pg-13 family feel. I guess we have seen a few examples over the years that push the envelope whilst remaining a family film. Gremlins comes to mind from my youth as a scary movie for kids you can watch with them.
After all, I doubt Marvel wants kids crying in the aisles if they push the envelope too far? I guess we shall just have to wait and see what Waldron and director Raimi have lined up for us.
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