{"id":7343,"date":"2014-10-15T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:36:39","slug":"ewan-mcgregor-others-eyed-marvels-doctor-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/ewan-mcgregor-others-eyed-marvels-doctor-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Ewan McGregor and Others Eyed for Doctor Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Studios is reportedly considering <strong>Ewan McGregor<\/strong> to play the title role in Doctor Strange. According to Variety, McGregor is just one of six actors in the mix for the role of Doctor Strange with the other five being Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Episode VII&#8217;s Oscar Isaac, and past rumored contenders Ethan Hawke and Oscar winner Jared Leto.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Derrickson of <em>Sinister<\/em> is directing the film with a script 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>No official release date has been set for the film, production schedule suggests that <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> will land in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Ewan McGregor will make a good Doctor Strange? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-character.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-character.png\" alt=\"Ewan McGregor\" width=\"716\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-character.png 716w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doctor-strange-character-244x300.png 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Studios is reportedly considering Ewan McGregor to play the title role in Doctor Strange. According to Variety, McGregor is just one of six actors in the mix for the role of Doctor Strange with the other five being Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Episode VII&#8217;s Oscar Isaac, and past rumored contenders Ethan Hawke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[388,558],"tags":[855,3145,1157,122],"yst_prominent_words":[6293,11097,12286,12282,6413,12284,12285,12283,7480,11099,6121,8658,8641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343"}],"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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68931,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/68931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}