Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Writer Reveals Alternate Ending

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had the potential to be one of the biggest Marvel movies ever made, but it didn’t deliver as much as the fans expected. Some fans liked it more, some liked it less, but still, there is a lot of stuff that might’ve been a part of this movie, but didn’t make the final cut, including the alternate ending.

Michael Waldron, who previously worked on the Disney+ series Loki, also served as the sole writer of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Even though he already revealed a lot of interesting stuff about the movie, he never talked about the alternate ending, until now. In the audio commentary of the movie’s digital release, Waldron revealed an alternate twisted-ending.

“Strange gets trapped in that [incursion] universe … and then [Sinister Strange] turns around, and the third eye opens.” — Michael Waldron (via ComicBook.com)

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Doctor Strange’s third eye was also a light motive of the movie’s ending, as well as its post-credit scene in which Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular character met Charlize Theron’s Clea.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness grossed $947 million worldwide, which is a solid result, but it’s interesting that it didn’t manage to reach a billion-dollar mark. Still, it is currently the second highest-grossing movie of the year, behind Top Gun: Maverick.

Directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rachel McAdams, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is now streaming on Disney+.

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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.