{"id":6655,"date":"2014-10-06T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:12:07","slug":"marvel-ends-talks-with-joaquin-phoenix-on-doctor-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/marvel-ends-talks-with-joaquin-phoenix-on-doctor-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Ends Talks With Joaquin Phoenix on Doctor Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Marvelite fans of Joaquin Phoenix! The Oscar nominee is <em>not<\/em> going to play Doctor Strange, after all.<\/p>\n<p>To many fans&#8217; dismay, <a title=\"Marvel\" href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=vccdv\">Marvel<\/a> Studios has reportedly stopped talks with <strong>Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong> about playing the title role in <a title=\"Doctor Strange\" href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=hv6xyn\"><strong>Doctor Strange<\/strong><\/a>. These rumors began circulating during San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He never had a deal, but Marvel is already getting into it with other actors to play that superhero in a free standing film,&#8221; according to <a title=\"Deadline\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2014\/10\/joaquin-phoenix-doctor-strange-talks-end-marvel-844910\/\">Deadline<\/a>. &#8220;Don\u2019t believe these talks that Boyhood\u2018s Ethan Hawke has made a deal to play the character; I\u2019m told reliably that that is speculation run wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6708\" style=\"margin: 15px 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-wrap.png\" alt=\"Doctor Strange\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-wrap.png 398w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-wrap-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/>According to reports, Joaquin was uncomfortable with the level of contractual commitment demanded by Marvel. He was also disturbed by the nature of how effects-heavy movies are made (think the Batsuit. Ouch.), and chose not to partake.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s no word yet on who Marvel will pick to play the Sorcerer Supreme yet, we can guess that their wish list includes Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jared Leto.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Derrickson of Sinister is directing Doctor Strange from a script most recently written by Jon Spaihts. Earlier drafts of the script had been written by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Strange was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Strange made his first appearance in 1963\u2019s \u201cStrange Tales\u201d #110, which follows the adventures of Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon who loses precision in his hands following a car accident. He becomes the \u2018Master of the Mystic Arts\u2019 while attempting to regain his former skills.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us who you think should play Doctor Strange in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Marvelite fans of Joaquin Phoenix! The Oscar nominee is not going to play Doctor Strange, after all. To many fans&#8217; dismay, Marvel Studios has reportedly stopped talks with Joaquin Phoenix about playing the title role in Doctor Strange. These rumors began circulating during San Diego Comic-Con. &#8220;He never had a deal, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[1087,855,3145,112,1085,122],"yst_prominent_words":[11834,8155,6293,11097,6023,11833,11831,6073,7405,7666,11832,11830,11099,6121,8641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68957,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/68957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}