{"id":8234,"date":"2014-10-27T21:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2014-10-28T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:23:41","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-doctor-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/benedict-cumberbatch-doctor-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bennedict-cumberbatch-to-play-doctor-strange.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bennedict-cumberbatch-to-play-doctor-strange.jpg\" alt=\"Benedict Cumberbatch\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bennedict-cumberbatch-to-play-doctor-strange.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bennedict-cumberbatch-to-play-doctor-strange-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bennedict-cumberbatch-to-play-doctor-strange-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, <a href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=r7fmh1\">Sherlock<\/a>&#8216;s <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> is officially <a href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=p2cy3f\">Marvel<\/a>&#8216;s Doctor Strange!<\/p>\n<p>According to Deadline, Cumberbatch is taking the lead role in Marvel Studios&#8217; Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who made his first appearance in 1963&#8217;s <em>Strange Tales<\/em> #110. It follows the adventures of Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon who loses precision in his hands following a terrible car accident. His quest to regain his former skills sets him on the path to become the &#8220;Master of the Mystic Arts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While there is no official release date as of yet, the time table for production would lead us to believe that <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> will land on the July 8, 2016 release date that Marvel bookmarked for a theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Doctor-Strange-Comic-Book-Cover.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Doctor-Strange-Comic-Book-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"benedict cumberbatch\" width=\"630\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Doctor-Strange-Comic-Book-Cover.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Doctor-Strange-Comic-Book-Cover-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, Sherlock&#8216;s Benedict Cumberbatch is officially Marvel&#8216;s Doctor Strange! According to Deadline, Cumberbatch is taking the lead role in Marvel Studios&#8217; Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who made his first appearance in 1963&#8217;s Strange Tales #110. It follows the adventures of Stephen Strange, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":8251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[966,855,3145,112,122],"yst_prominent_words":[9002,12910,8147,6293,11097,12911,6073,7932,8220,6121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234"}],"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=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}