Director Scott Derrickson's Doctor Strange is only a few weeks out from release in North America (November 4, 2016). While declining to discuss exactly what's happening, ("
It would be a big giveaway for the movie"), Derrickson does describe the inspiration for the imagery. He told EW, "
It is the section of the movie that is most directly inspired by the ‘60s and ‘70s Doctor Strange comic book, specifically the Steve Ditko panels that were very psychedelic, and also a blacklight poster from 1971 that I have hanging above my desk at home. It’s also the banner on my Twitter feed. So those are the visual inspirations for that space and it is all taken directly from the Marvel comic universe."
In examining the image, it almost looks as if Strange has shrunken down to the Quantum Level, a dimension briefly seen at the end of 2015's Ant-Man. It is this dimension where the orignal Wasp is presumably still trapped. Is the big giveaway Derrickson mentions pertaining to a possible connection to Ant-Man & The Wasp, which will be released onJuly 20, 2018? Speaking at the Ant-Man junket back in 2015, Marvel President Kevin Feige previously had this to say about the Quantum Realm, "
If you look up the study of quantum mechanics, when you get down that small, as Hank Pym says, space time is meaningless, and there’s a lot of that stuff that applies to Doctor Strange. So this is sort of an appetizer for, ‘If you think this is weird…"
ABOUT DOCTOR STRANGE
Marvel’s Doctor Strange follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilizing a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel cinematic universe.
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