The following exerpt is from the interview with
Kotaku.com...
"With Dr. Strange, Marvel had some very special requests," he said. "They wanted him to do this this and this. It was very specific what they wanted him to do."
Nitsuma said that Marvel has never been that specific in the past.
"Dr. Strange had the most specific requests they ever made," he said. "It was just unreal; what moves he had; what sort of hand gestures. Very specific."
He said the comic publisher even sent along illustrations showing exact hand positions for Dr. Strange to use in the game.
"There were some bits and pieces we couldn't do," Niitsuma said. "There were some moves we had to counter-offer [with] something else and satisfy their needs for specific things in different ways."
Marvel even over-ruled some of the things Capcom wanted to change. For instance, Marvel requests that Dr. Strange float when he moves around the screen in the fighting game. But Niitsuma and his team said that too many of Marvel's characters were already floating. Eventually, Marvel got their way.
I asked Niitsuma if the close watch on how Dr. Strange looked and moved in the game might be tied to the rumored movie that's in the works. He declined to comment.
Whether the lack of a response was from not having a legitimate answer or a matter of a Marvel/Capcom confidentiality agreement, I'm interested to see what is possibly expanded upon this (if anything) in the months to come being that it's just speculation at this point. We shall see.