Kevin Feige, who is the president of Marvel Studios, has said that the sequel of Doctor Strange, is not a horror film but only has scary sequences in it, as reported by The Indian Express.
He spoke at the New York Film Academy where he unveiled about the film titled Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, saying: “Multiverse of Madness is the greatest title we’ve ever come up with, by the way, which is one thing that’s exciting about it. I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a horror film, but it’ll be a big MCU film with scary sequences in it.”
Further adding: “I mean, there are horrifying sequences in Raiders [of the Lost Ark] that I as a little kid would [cover my eyes] when their faces melted. Or Temple of Doom, of course, or Gremlins, or Poltergeist. These are the movies that invented the PG-13 rating, by the way. They were PG and then they were like, ‘We need another [rating].’ But that’s fun. It’s fun to be scared in that way, and not a horrific, torturous way, but a way that is legitimately scary — because Scott Derrickson is quite good at that — but scary in the service of an exhilarating emotion.”
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will have Benedict Cumberbatch’s returning to play the title role, along with Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch. Directed by Scott Derrickson, the film is slated to release on May 7, 2021.