{"id":34954,"date":"2014-10-15T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=34954"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:20:55","slug":"doctor-strange-shortlist-expands-to-include-gyllenhaal-isaac-mcconaughey-and-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/15\/doctor-strange-shortlist-expands-to-include-gyllenhaal-isaac-mcconaughey-and-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"DOCTOR STRANGE Shortlist Expands To Include Gyllenhaal, Isaac, McConaughey And McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doc-strange-candidates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/doc-strange-candidates.jpg\" alt=\"doc strange candidates\" width=\"550\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>I will say this, I do like pretty much all the names that have been thrown out for D<strong>octor Strange<\/strong>. This latest batch is no different.<\/p>\n<p>It all starts out with <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150414030008\/http:\/\/badassdigest.com\/2014\/10\/14\/that-crazy-old-wizard-ewan-mcgregor-is-in-the-running-for-doctor-strange\/\">Badass Digest<\/a> claiming from sources that Marvel is now considering Ewan McGregor for the lead role. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150117234804\/http:\/\/www.comicbookmovie.com:80\/fansites\/MarvelFreshman\/news\/?a=109286\">ComicBookMovie<\/a> chimes in to say that not only McGregor has been added to the short list that features the aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/03\/scott-derrickson-dr-strange\/\">Jared Leto<\/a> (who they say is actively campaigning for the role) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/01\/ethan-hawke-is-the-latest-name-on-the-doctor-strange-casting-carousel\/\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> (who has expressed interest), but also is joined by Jake Gyllenhaal, Matthew McConaughey and Oscar Isaac to fill out the list.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an issue with anyone on this list, as I have seen all of them\u00a0 do some good work in the past. I will say that McConaughey, who has completed a career renaissance that began with <strong>Magic Mike <\/strong>and culminated in an Oscar win and the lead in the highly anticipated <strong>Interstellar<\/strong>, might be apple-pie-in-the-sky-high-hopes for Marvel at this point. I think his latest career boost has lifted him out of their price range.<\/p>\n<p>However, if I had to pick a favorite, it would be McGregor. He&#8217;s my favorite actor on the list, I loved his work in a lot of films and would bring a lot to the role. And he is still within their budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">It&#8217;s the longest shortlist in Hollywood!<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/15\/doctor-strange-shortlist-expands-to-include-gyllenhaal-isaac-mcconaughey-and-mcgregor\/\" title=\"DOCTOR STRANGE Shortlist Expands To Include Gyllenhaal, Isaac, McConaughey And McGregor\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[1535,2185,235,564,7480],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-doctor-strange","9":"tag-ewan-mcgregor","10":"tag-jake-gyllenhaal","11":"tag-marvel-studios","12":"tag-matthew-mcconaghey"},"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\/34954","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=34954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34954"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=34954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}