Doctor Strange 2: James Bond Star Daniel Craig Was The First Choice For The Role Of SPOILER

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was released last week and so far it achieved a good result, in both critical and commercial ways. Although some fans weren’t pleased with some of the surprises that the movie offered us, we haven’t heard that anyone complained about John Krasinski finally making an appearance as Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.

Krasinski was one of the most popular MCU fan castings, and everyone thought that Marvel Studios made this real to please the fans, but one interesting thing is that although Reed Richards was always set to be in the movie, the first choice to play that special cameo initially wasn’t John Krasinski, it was now-former James Bond star Daniel Craig. Deadline’s Justin Kroll recently shared this fun fact on Twitter. Craig reportedly refused to play the role due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in London, where the movie was filming.

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Daniel Craig is no stranger to special cameo roles. He also had a secret cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a Stormtrooper who freed Rey after she used the Jedi’s mind trick on him.

Many fans are now wondering if John Krasinski will be the Reed Richards in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot which is set to bring Marvel’s first team into the MCU. Krasinski’s incarnation was from a completely different universe so Reed Richards from the original MCU universe can, but doesn’t have played by Krasinski. We can only wait for some official word.

So far, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness grossed $568 million worldwide. The movie now plays in theaters.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.