Doctor Strange 2 runtime was originally 35 minutes longer, reveals director Sam Raimi

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澳洲幸运5🎉开奖号码历史查询:Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was ori♏ginally 35 minutes longer, director Sam Raimi has ℱrevealed.

Following on from the events of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Marvel sequel sees Benedict Cumberbatch's titular sorcerer try to protect teenager America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) from those keen to steal her dimension-hopping powers. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Its runtime comes in at 125 minutes, making it the shortest film in the franchise since 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain Marvel in 2019, which is 2 hours and 4 minutes. 

It's been known for quite some time that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:🤪Doctor Strange 2 re-filmed a lot of scenes following its test screenings. In a new interview with , Raimi was asked about the earlier version of the film, and how much of it was cut despite them essentially having more footage due to the do-overs. 

"It was probabl🃏y like two hours and 40 minutes, and it slowly came down, even though we did the reshoots," the Evil Dead filmmaker recalled. "We took out material even though the reshoots went in. So, it slowly got down to about two hours and five minutes is the total.

"I'm trying to remember what Marvel is including in the deleted scenes. It's really going to be their decision, but I know that there are at least two or three deleted scenes that will be included. I don't know t🌠he full extent of them though."

One thing the movie made sure to squeeze in was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:plenty of cameos, all of which Raimi hopes ꧂"titillate the fans a✅nd surprise them." He added that the team behind the film wanted "to make them gasp, to give them, not exactly what they expected, but something that they would love."

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