With her head shaved, she collapses all known genetic boundaries, looking more like one of those things that abducted Christopher Walken in Communion. Tilda Swinton, of course, is none of these things. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong. The film was directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with Jon Spaihts and C. Stephen’s mentor is the Ancient One, a figure imagined by Ditko as not only conspicuously old, but bearded, male and Asian. Doctor Strange: Directed by Scott Derrickson. Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 14th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Getting wind of a secret treatment in Nepal, he flies there, bedraggled and desperate, and a magician called Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor, all sage suspicion) admits him to the elite temple where this re-education can begin. No one’s conventional science has been able to help he’s driven away his best friend and erstwhile lover (Rachel McAdams) with brutal rage. When we’re brought back to earth, it’s with an almighty bump. But while Doctor Sleep is mostly worth seeing, it crosses a line when it depicts the villains ruthless violence toward kids the screaming of skilled young actor Jacob Tremblay will cause most viewers blood to run cold. The vortex into which he’s pulled, as the film’s second act begins, is something like the Star Gate sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey, albeit with every last yottabyte of 2016 effects wizardry flung at it. Even the movies long runtime tends to add depth rather than make it feel bloated.