Did the fans just totally make up the Tom Cruise thing? And we tried to be true to what kind of characters were represented in the Illuminati in the comics.įans were totally right about Patrick Stewart appearing as an alternate Professor X, but totally wrong about Tom Cruise - who had once been slated to star as Iron Man years before Robert Downey Jr. It became, “All right, if you’re putting together an Illuminati, who would actually need to be in it?” You’d have people with certain power sets. It was just a moving target of who’s available and who’s right. But the lineup is close to, I think, who was originally in my first draft, which was: “Okay, I know it can’t actually be this.” And then it ended up being close to that. The final lineup in that group is beyond my wildest dreams of who we could get - and then dispatch. What factors were involved in figuring out who would be in the Illuminati? And if you’ve got the Book of the Damned whispering in your ear long enough that your kids are out there and you could go get ’em, maybe that can push you to do some terrible things.
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Then she gets the Darkhold at the end of the series and learns that there is a real version of her children out there. But it’s also revealed to her that the family she’s built is not real. She does make the heroic choice to let go of all those people. You know, she’s doing bad stuff throughout WandaVision. You’d have to have a antagonist throughout the entirety of most of the film. She wouldn’t be the protagonist, and she wouldn’t really be the antagonist. But I feel like in that case, you would have had a watered-down version of Wanda going bad because it’s still Dr.
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The question just became, when would it happen? Certainly, there was a version of this movie where Wanda was part of the ensemble that ended, I guess, with her turning bad, and then she could have been an antagonist of another movie. It was always where Wanda was headed in the MCU, even as I inherited the movie. Well, first off, it’s true to who the comics’ version of the character is and what she does in the comics. What was your thinking behind having Wanda Maximoff become a full-in villain in this movie, especially since it’s a bit of a change in course from WandaVision? I mean, you know, people were feeling something at the movies. It’s been awesome being in the theater hearing the cheers, then the gasps and the groans. I hope you were truly terrified of the Scarlet Witch. Then you are really scared of the Xenomorphs for the rest of that movie, and that’s what I wanted to accomplish with Wanda. I just love how Aliens goes to great lengths to tell you how badass the space Marines are - and then they just get slaughtered. Because just tonally this movie is a thriller and a chase. I was watching Aliens a lot as I was writing. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules' And so I wrote it in.įlashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album I had no idea: Would I be able to use these characters? Would this even be possible? But I knew with Sam that if we did it this way, it would be amazing. It felt like we’re at the point where I need to find the madness in the multiverse here. The idea for that was not in my outline I was writing the first draft and I guess I felt like, as I put it, the movie needed to get drunk. That’s probably my favorite sequence in the movie.
My favorite part of this movie was when you introduce the alternate-Earth heroes of the Illuminati - and then promptly have Wanda slaughter them, which freaked out some fans.
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(Again: this interview is full of spoilers click away if you haven’t yet seen Dr. The writer also discussed some of the film’s more controversial moments, and much more. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, before MCU followers started speculating online that Tom Cruise would appear in the film as an alternate-world version of Iron Man, Waldron had the very same idea. As screenwriter Michael Waldron ( Loki, Rick and Morty) reveals in our in-depth, spoiler-heavy interview about the making of Dr. Sometimes fans and creators actually manage to think alike.