The Latest Doctor Strange Rumor Has Marvel Looking At Ewan McGregor

Can they make magic happen this time?

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Oct 14, 2014 07:18 pm

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Once more unto the breach!

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I’m hoping we’ll have a definitive announcement from Marvel Entertainment by the end of this month as to who will be playing Doctor Strange but until then…rumor time!

At the beginning of this month, it was Ethan Hawke’s name attached to the lead role of the film set to be released July 8, 2016. Now, Badass Digest says it’s Ewan McGregor’s turn.

Yesterday a new source contacted me and said that Ewan McGregor had been prepping for the role – doing the usual research actors do when looking at taking on an adaptation or existing character. I contacted one of my usual sources and asked if this was true, and I was told “They’re looking at him.”

Perhaps this is to apologize for not letting him be in Star Wars: Episode VII?

(via /Film)

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."