{"id":37671,"date":"2016-01-21T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=37671"},"modified":"2018-12-05T00:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:05:39","slug":"benedict-wong-doctor-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/21\/benedict-wong-doctor-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Wong Cast In DOCTOR STRANGE As&#8230; Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/benedict-wong.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/benedict-wong.jpg\" alt=\"benedict-wong\" width=\"678\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although it has been in production for several weeks now, outside of Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, we don&#8217;t know the character names of anyone in the cast of Marvel Studios&#8217; <strong>Doctor Strange<\/strong>. But today we can add one more name to that shortlist of known characters with the announcement from Marvel that Benedict Wong has been cast as Doctor Strange&#8217;s right-hand man and aide, Wong.<\/p>\n<p>Wong, the actor, was most recently seen this past fall as Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Bruce Ng in Ridley Scott&#8217;s <strong>The Martian<\/strong>. Wong, the character, comes from a long family line who has pledged to help the various good sorcerers who protect Earth from extradimensional threats as both menservants and bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, we will soon be given character names for Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams and more sometime before <strong>Doctor Strange<\/strong> hits theaters on November 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wong-doctor-strange.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wong-doctor-strange.jpg\" alt=\"wong-doctor-strange\" width=\"678\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wong-doctor-strange.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wong-doctor-strange-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wong-doctor-strange-675x398.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The MARTIAN co-star joins the latest Marvel Studios film already in production.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/21\/benedict-wong-doctor-strange\/\" title=\"Benedict Wong Cast In DOCTOR STRANGE As&#8230; Wong\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[84],"tags":[8091,1535],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-benedict-wong","8":"tag-doctor-strange"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37671"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=37671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}