Most would agree that superhero movie trailers tend to give away a little too much these days, and the teasers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness were no different.
Though the trailers/TV spots didn't spoil all of the sequel's surprises (far from it), they did reveal that Sir Patrick Stewart would appear as Professor Charles Xavier. They also made it abundantly clear that the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) would serve as the villain of the piece, and strongly hinted at several other plot points.
It can be easy to forget that a production's creative team usually has very little say about how a film is marketed, and Kevin Feige did not seem best pleased when asked what his favorite moment from the trailers was during last night's red carpet premiere.
"There’s been too much in the trailers, I don’t want to talk about anything else," said the Marvel Studios boss. "But I will say, Sam has made this movie to be experienced on as big a screen as possible, and it’s even the first one in a long time that 3D was really taken into account, too, because the first Doctor Strange film I think was out best film ever in 3D, and this one now will be right alongside that."
One could argue that promotional material should try to get prospective audiences as hyped as possible, but it's not as if fans are going to skip the latest MCU movie no matter how unrevealing the trailers are.
Of course, the trailers are far from the biggest issue, as plot leaks have become commonplace over the past few years, and a full breakdown of Doctor Strange 2 has been online for months.
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