Benedict Cumberbatch Teases Doctor Strange's Return to MCU Next Year

After Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that Benedict Cumberbatch is not done with the role of Doctor Strange. Now the actor is teasing his return to the MCU in a new movie next year.

Cumberbatch recently said while being a guest in the JW3 Speaker Series: “There are some Marvel capers in the making next year.” Marvel Studios has not announced a new Doctor Strange movie, so chances are whatever he’s doing will be for another Marvel movie that’s going into development.

Some of the Marvel films that he could appear in include Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, Blade, Deadpool 3, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Fantastic Four. These are movies coming out in 2024 and 2025.

Strange’s next adventure was teased at the end of Multiverse of Madness in a post-credit scene in which Charlize Theron shows up as a character named Clea and tells Doctor Strange that “he caused an incursion and we’re going to fix it.” When Clea asks Strange if he’s afraid, he says, “Not in the least.”

Multiverse of Madness writer Michael Waldron previously teased Strange’s future in the MCU in an interview, saying: “We knew that we wanted to introduce Clea. She’s Strange’s great love in the comics and it was felt to me like Strange wasn’t at the point at the start of our movie where he was ready to meet the love of his life. It felt like we had to close the loop with he and Christine Palmer. And so after she gives him her wisdom to not be afraid of loving someone, then it felt like we were right to tease what could be eventually with he and Clea.”

I like the Doctor Strange character, and I’m curious to see what’s in store for him in the future of the MCU. What would you like to see from Doctor Strange as his story arc continues to play out?