{"id":33918,"date":"2014-06-06T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33918"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:20:58","slug":"cumberbatch-hardy-being-considered-for-doctor-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/06\/cumberbatch-hardy-being-considered-for-doctor-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberbatch, Hardy Being Considered For DOCTOR STRANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cumberbarch-hardy-dr-strange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cumberbarch-hardy-dr-strange.jpg\" alt=\"cumberbarch hardy dr, strange\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cumberbarch-hardy-dr-strange.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cumberbarch-hardy-dr-strange-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>While <strong>Ant-Man <\/strong>flounders in the wake of losing its director, <strong>Doctor Strange <\/strong>is pressing full steam ahead, even though it hasn&#8217;t been officially announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>One had to expect that after Scott Derrickson was named director of the film, the casting rumors would stat coming fast and furious. And they have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2014\/06\/marvel-starts-doctor-strange-search-tom-hardy-benedict-cumberbatch-early-wish-listers\/\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Marvel has started a wish list of actors they&#8217;d like to play Stephen Strange and on the top of that list is Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>Now would be the time to mention that we at that &#8220;apple-pie-in-the-sky&#8221; period of casting rumors, where the actors named might actually be the ones Marvel wants, they might not actually be the actors Marvel gets.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, if Marvel does cast Cumberbatch as Strange, they can just take my money now. I&#8217;ll camp out in the theater and wait for the film to arrive. However, Cumberbatch has been mentioned before in geek cred properties and not signed on (namely <strong>Star Wars<\/strong>). So, I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy is an interesting choice. Most people might only know him as the barely-audible Bane in <strong>The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong>, but he is definitely a skilled actor. I wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing him in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">WANTED: Hunky British type, mid-to-late-30s&#8230;<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/06\/cumberbatch-hardy-being-considered-for-doctor-strange\/\" title=\"Cumberbatch, Hardy Being Considered For DOCTOR STRANGE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[3757,21,1535,289,3398],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-benedict-cumberbatch","10":"tag-casting","11":"tag-doctor-strange","12":"tag-marvel","13":"tag-tom-hardy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33918"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}