Doctor Strange - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[ivan]

When Kaecilius and his zealots are dragged to the Dark Dimension at the film's climax they are transformed. Their new form is dark and mottled, with light bursting from where their eyes once were, making them resemble the Mindless Ones, the creatures that populate Dormammu's Dark Dimension in the original comics.

[nora]

First Marvel Studios movie to feature the new Marvel Studios logo/fanfare composed by Michael Giacchino at the start of the film. Michael Giacchino also scored the film. Previous Marvel Studios films featured the original logo that can also be seen in other Marvel movies such as the X-Men series. This logo was sometimes accompanied by the fanfare composed by Brian Tyler, which was first heard in Thor: The Dark World (2013).

[janice]

Near the start of the movie when there is a wide shot of the Manhattan skyline, Tony Stark's Avengers building can be seen.

[kenzi]

Patrick Dempsey publicly expressed an interest in playing Stephen Strange.

[jim]

Doctor Strange's creators, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, based his appearance on Hollywood actor Vincent Price. The character even bears the middle name of Vincent.

[bernard]

When Dr. Strange is getting ready to attend his speaking engagement at the beginning of the movie, he selects a watch from many he owns. The watch is stored (amongst many) is an automatic watch winding case, which moves the watches so that they remain wound. The power reserve of the watch he selected (a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Perpetual) is 38 hours without motion.

[jessica]

One of the relics in the New York Sanctum is a white mask with an ankh next to it. This is a reference to the Moon Knight, a superhero who was empowered (and sometimes possessed) by the Egyptian moon god Khonshu and wielded a stick shaped like an ankh.

[kenneth]

Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) is trapped by a relic called the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak. In the comics, the Crimson Bands were a spell Dr Strange uses.

[janice]

Tilda Swinton's children were crew members on the film. Her daughter worked in the costume department and her son in the art department designing planets.

[oscar]

The scene where Stephen trains his broken hands by writing his name over and over comes from J. Michael Straczynski's "Dr Strange" comic.

[tamara]

Kaecilius was named after the word "caecilian," a rare snake-like amphibian.