{"id":232534,"date":"2025-10-29T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232534\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:41:10","slug":"doctor-strange-2-writer-addresses-rumors-he-hadnt-seen-wandavision-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232534\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Strange 2 Writer Addresses Rumors He Hadn\u2019t Seen WandaVision &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/superherohype.com\/tag\/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/a>\u2018 writer has addressed claims from fans that he hadn\u2019t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/superherohype.com\/tag\/marvel-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marvel Studios<\/a>\u2018 WandaVision before writing the film.<\/p>\n<p>What did Doctor Strange 2\u2019s writer say? <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to fans during a recent Reddit AMA session, writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/michael-waldron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Michael Waldron<\/a> was asked what his inspiration for Wanda was in the sequel. Waldron\u2019s answer talked about the growth of both Strange and Wanda from their other stories, and he took a not-so-subtle jab at those who thinks he had not seen the Disney+ show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked continuing to explore Strange\u2019s need for control, especially in the wake of his experience in Infinity War\/Endgame,\u201d Waldron wrote. \u201cAnd this mirrored Wanda\u2019s own struggle with control following <a href=\"http:\/\/superherohype.com\/tag\/wandavision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WandaVision<\/a> (which, contrary to what the internet tells you, I was reading\/watching all the way through).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waldron\u2019s comments reference a long-held thought by many that the writer hadn\u2019t seen any of WandaVision ahead of writing the story to the 2022 movie. This was seemingly confirmed by star <a href=\"http:\/\/superherohype.com\/tag\/elizabeth-olsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Elizabeth Olsen<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfK0JmirhHU&amp;t=309s&amp;ab_channel=VanityFair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said in 2023<\/a> that the writer\u2019s \u201chad not seen\u201d the show due to it not being finished, where she also felt she had to act different to make sure Wanda\u2019s arc in Doctor Strange\u2019s sequel wasn\u2019t \u201crepetitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the beliefs, Waldron has seemingly put the issue to bed with his comments while also opening up a window into his creative process on the movie.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1ohdvh8\/comment\/nlw0y82\/?context=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reddit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u2018 writer has addressed claims from fans that he hadn\u2019t seen Marvel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6460,2589,39407,98604,65944,96,5396,6461,5228,89251,2839,3842,3513,56,54,55,84639],"class_list":["post-232534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-disney-plus","tag-doctor-strange","tag-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness","tag-elizabeth-olsen","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-michael-waldron","tag-movies","tag-streaming","tag-tv-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wandavision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}