A while ago a rumor surfaced that Patrick Dempsey was being looked at to star in an adaptation of Marvel's Dr Strange. Although that rumor seems to have been premature, it did reach Dempsey who is now showing great interest in the role and is actively perusing it. He tells Geoff Boucher all about it..
“I’ve been lobbying for [it]. There’s a whole bunch of people [among the 'Grey's' crew] who are into comics and Marvel, too, on the set and they’re like, ‘Doctor Strange, that’s the one you should do.’ It would be fantastic. It’d be a great TV show, especially for HBO or something like that... HBO you’re at 13 and I think that’s much better. It’s just so hard to sustain the quality after three years if you’re doing 24, 25 episodes a year.
Dempsey also reveals that Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige is aware of his desire to play the character..
"He knows what’s going on. There was stuff going on. At Comic-Con they were talking about me playing it and there was a rumor that I’d been cast. I mean, it’s something that’s kind of out there and, you know, I’ve been looking at that. It would be a fun one to do. Hopefully, doing something like ‘Transformers’ is about to show myself in an action situation where I’m not mister-weepy-doctor guy, you know, not McDreamy.
Although we know of Feige and co's desire to get a Dr Strange movie out there, we haven't heard anything official on the project since Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer were hired to pen a script last year. If Dempsey is indeed in with a shot, do you guys think he would make a good Dr Strange?
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