{"id":14841,"date":"2022-05-05T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1636449"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T08:28:09","slug":"how-doctor-strange-2-was-changed-by-spider-man-no-way-home","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/how-doctor-strange-2-was-changed-by-spider-man-no-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How Doctor Strange 2 was changed by Spider-Man: No Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Huw Fullerton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 05 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The last two Marvel movie releases have been a Spider-Man film starring Tobey Maguire, and a film directed by Sam Raimi \u2013 but somehow, these aren\u2019t the same film.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know! I thought of that, too,\u201d Raimi, now promoting his<\/em> new Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/a>, told RadioTimes.com<\/a> when we asked about this almost-Spider-Man (2002) reunion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss Tobey. It\u2019d be great to work with him again one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, despite this missed opportunity there\u2019s plenty of shared DNA between 2021\u2019s Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange 2.<\/p>\n

In the new movie, the events of No Way Home are referenced by Cumberbatch\u2019s Sorcerer Supreme \u2013 and behind-the-scenes, Raimi has revealed just how closely the two films were intertwined during production.<\/p>

\u201cOn that film, I had inside knowledge,\u201d Raimi said. \u201cMarvel executives pulled me aside, and said, \u2018Sam, here\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThey explained to me the plot. I laughed my head off when I heard it. It was just so outrageous. And it worked just as much as everyone hoped it would \u2013 even more so.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that wasn\u2019t the end of the interaction. While Doctor Strange 2 was originally supposed to take place before No Way Home \u2013 with the multiverse plot elements an after-effect of what happened in the Benedict Cumberbatch movie, rather than the other way around \u2013 the release order was shifted.<\/p>\n

This, plus on-the-fly changes to No Way Home during shooting, meant last-minute changes to Multiverse of Madness as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cMyself, producer Richie Palmer and Michael Waldron, our writer, had to stay in constant touch with the Spider-Man team, because we had to know the latest updates on how their script was changing,\u201d Raimi told us.<\/p>\n

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Benedict Wong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen and Sam Raimi attend the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness photocall in in London.<\/span><\/figcaption> (Photo by David M. Benett\/Dave Benett\/WireImage)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cYou know, while we were shooting, they were shooting. But they were making changes. And we had to call them and say, \u2018Does Doctor Strange remember anything of the multiverse? Or does he not remember the multiverse?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to really keep tabs so that we carried a nice through-line forward from the last film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raimi also revealed details of other reshoots to the film, which required some clever cast juggling due to conflicting schedules.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the reshoots we did were having to do with actors\u2019 availability,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to shoot many scenes with one actor when actually there were three or four actors in the finished scene. So the real actor and three stand-ins, one time. And then the second actor, with three different stand-ins, another time. Etcetera.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then we would composite these pieces together. That primarily was the subject of our reshoots.<\/p>