{"id":12598,"date":"2020-04-14T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=12598"},"modified":"2020-04-16T02:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:08:03","slug":"sam-raimi-confirms-it-hes-directing-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/sam-raimi-confirms-it-hes-directing-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi Confirms It: He’s Directing ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I was bummed to learn that Scott Derrickson would be stepping down from director duties on the Doctor Strange<\/em> sequel<\/a>. Then a month later, I was pumped at the reports that Sam Raimi might be taking over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But with everything going on in the world, that’s the last we heard about the project until now. Coming Soon<\/a> spoke with Raimi about his upcoming horror anthology series for Quibi and for the first time, Raimi confirmed he is indeed directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The confirmation came up during a discussion about the rumors where it was pointed out that years ago, Raimi had snuck a Doctor Strange reference into Spider-Man 2<\/em>. In the scene where J. Jonah Jameson and his assistant editor, Ted, are kicking around potential names to call Dr. Otto Octavius, “Doctor Strange” is one of the names Ted suggests.\u00a0“That’s pretty good,” says Jameson, “but it’s taken.”<\/p>\n