Q&A: Would Dr. Strange make for a good movie?

Question by Simply Ravishing: Would Dr. Strange make for a good movie?
I know they did an animated movie a couple years ago,but I have always wanted to see him on the big screen.They could almost take the character anywhere and with his fascination in dark arts and mystical realms.I don’t know who could play Dormammu or even Nightmare,but it would have to be good.Plus with all the Harry Potter wizardry and other movies making money in this kind genre.
I do not see why Dr. Strange would not be able to capture a lot of that market.
Even his back story on how he was a Doctor and losses it all because of a car wreck that left his hands in rough shape.

Best answer:

Answer by jplatt39
It made a lousy TV movie back in the seventies and I don’t think it would make a better one today. I was partly drawn into comics by Dr. Strange — the visual equivalent of Carnacki the Ghost Hunter, Morris Klaw, the Duc du Richelieu Dr. Taverner and the other great Occult Detectives, but though I love Polanski I found the Ninth Gate boring and every other, EVERY OTHER Occult Detective movie I’ve seen was FAR worse. Hollywood just doesn’t know how to handle the genre. And frankly, I even have problems with recent Marvel iterations of Dr. Strange. That animation IS an exception. I own it on DVD. But live action? I’m not hopeful. BBC did a nice adaptation of Carnacki starring Donald Pleasance back in ’71, but my list of good Occult Detective film and tv ENDS THERE (despite Roddenberry’s movie which looked like it did everything right but didn’t come off). Hellboy is an Occult Detective, but Del Toro made two of the ultimate geek films (the auction scene of the second one features a seven foot replica of the Venus of Willenndorff, and was released around the hundredth anniversary of its finding to name one Easter Egg).

Nobody can do a good Dr. Strange right now.

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