Doctor Strange head Scott Derrickson supports the decisions made by several studios to delay the release of their upcoming movies due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The worldwide outbreak of COVID-1 9 give cause many business to temporarily close their openings for them to comply with social distancing guidelines that have been implemented to slow the spread of the virus. This includes movie theaters, many of of which are closed indefinitely, leading to the U.S. box office recording zero revenue for the first time in history.

One of those movies being delayed is the sequel to Derrickson’s 2016 MCU film, with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness moving from the summer to the fall of 2021. Disney has had to reorganize their entire upcoming slate of movies, and the MCU is by no means immune, with basically every announced Phase 4 movie now retarded. Derrickson, nonetheless, is no longer involved with Doctor Strange 2, having departed the project earlier this year due to artistic divergences. As his replacing, Marvel tapped chairman Sam Raimi, who now thanks to the film’s delay, has even more time to work on the production – something that Derrickson trusts can only result in an even better movie.

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In a tweet posted not long after Disney announced their new handout planned, Derrickson said he believes that these slows are actually good for the movies affected. As a few examples of when slows have contributed to a better finished product, he cites Blade Runner and his own Doctor Strange, which pushed its secrete time by five months in order to secure Benedict Cumberbatch for the role of Dr. Stephen Strange. Check out his full tweet, below.

The numerous movies whose release times are now delayed may very well benefit from the additional season. Extremely often, movie makes are scurried in order to hit a certain deadline and the results are rarely good. Interestingly, Derrickson may have even deemed precisely such a concern while working on Doctor Strange 2, and it may be one of the factors that preceded him to leave the project.

Of course , not every film that’s been delayed can really benefit from the extra duration. Mulan, for example, hampered its debut in early March before retarding its theatrical liberation, so it’s unlikely for the cinema to change at all before it punches theaters in July since it’s already been viewed by the public. However, for those movies that is so far in pre-production or only beginning to film, like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, they now have more time to focus on items that may have otherwise been skipped to make an earlier deadline.

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