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Doctor Strange
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Rotten Tomatoes
7.5
IMDb / 10
7.4
TMDB · 23,620 votes
Film series · Doctor Strange · Part 1/2
DE release
27.10.2016
FSK
12+
Budget
180 Mio. $
Box office
676 Mio. $
The story
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Key characters
Trivia & background
- Casting Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One sparked a whitewashing debate that Marvel later publicly called a mistake.
🥚 Easter eggs & references
- On a shelf sits the Book of Cagliostro with its Time Stone references — magic quietly joining the stone hunt.
- Stan Lee reads Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception on the bus — fitting for the astral trip beside him.
- Strange's broken watch bears Christine's engraving — 'Time will tell how much I love you.'
📍 Filming locations
- Kathmandu is real: the team shot in Nepal's streets and temples before London and New York took over.
Gallery & videos
🎵 Music
Score: Michael Giacchino
📖 Comic sources
Strange Tales #110 (1963)
Ditko's psychedelic dimensions shape the look to this day.
Doctor Strange: The Oath (2006)
The film's tone and medical ethics.
Post-credit scenes · 2
1
Strange counsels Thor over self-refilling beer: 'So — Loki.'
→ Leads to: Thor: Ragnarok2
Mordo takes Pangborn's magic: 'Too many sorcerers.'
→ Leads to: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness🥸 Stan Lee cameo
Reads Aldous Huxley on the bus, laughing.
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