{"id":37379,"date":"2014-10-28T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=37379"},"modified":"2014-10-28T08:51:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:51:04","slug":"cumberbatch-in-talks-for-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/10\/cumberbatch-in-talks-for-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberbatch In Talks For Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37382\" alt=\"CumberbatchStrange102814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CumberbatchStrange102814.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>&#8216; <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> is back in negotiations for the role of <em>Doctor Strange<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Cumberbatch was an early choice for the role, but his work schedule got in the way and <em>Marve<\/em>l reached out to other actors, including <strong>Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Talks with Phoenix went nowhere and with <em>Marvel<\/em> shooting <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> later than they had originally planned, the role became an option again for Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by<strong> Scott Derrickson<\/strong> and written by <strong>Jon Spaihts<\/strong>, <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> &#8220;centers on a former neurosurgeon who serves as the Sorcerer Supreme \u2014 the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The character first made his appearance in the Marvel Universe over fifty years ago, in the pages of <em>Strange Tales No. 110<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Doctor Strange<\/em> will be released July 8, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek into Darkness&#8216; Benedict Cumberbatch is back in negotiations for the role of Doctor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3928,7313],"class_list":["post-37379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-cumberbatch","tag-doctor-strange"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37385,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379\/revisions\/37385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}