Doctor Strange Will Have a "Different Flavour" to Other Marvel Films

With Captain America: Civil War now in theaters, attention is turning to the next movie on the Marvel roster--Doctor Strange. The fantasy adventure is released in November, and co-star Mads Mikkelsen has been speaking about what fans can expect from the film.

In an interview with Yahoo! Movies, the Hannibal star explained that while Doctor Strange would certainly stand apart from many of Marvel's other films, it wouldn't push the surreal aspects of the story quite as far as the comics it is based on.

"If you look at the comic books, [they] are quite different [to other Marvel stories]," he said. "I think that the film will be different from the other [Marvel] films that we've seen, but not as different as the books are, because that was basically the '60s and '70s. It was more like an acid trip.

"We've taken that fascination of the time into something we can relate to today. So you still have the energy, you still have the colours, you still have the madness, but you also have something you can identify with. I think that was a necessity--if not, you would just make a crazy film.

"But you still have it there--you have all the action, all the good ingredients you get in a Marvel film, but it will have a different flavour, that's for sure."

Mikkelsen also revealed that his currently-unnamed character wouldn't be a traditional superhero villain. "He's not a villain in that way--he's a man who believes in something else than the hero," he said. "That doesn't mean that he doesn't want to make the planet look wonderful or he wants to save the world as well, but he has a different way of doing it. He is the antagonist, of course, but he's not necessarily wrong."

Doctor Strange stars Benedict Cumberbatch as mystical sorcerer Stephen Strange, with Tilda Swinton as Strange's mentor, the Ancient One. It also features Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams, and is directed by Sinister's Scott Derrickson.

The first trailer was released in April--check it out here. The film hits theaters on November 4, 2016.