{"id":71212,"date":"2015-01-23T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=71212"},"modified":"2015-01-23T14:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:03:36","slug":"doctor-strange-lines-up-an-oscar-nominee-for-the-ancient-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-strange-lines-up-an-oscar-nominee-for-the-ancient-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Strange lines up another Oscar nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chiwetel-ejiofor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71214\" alt=\"chiwetel-ejiofor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chiwetel-ejiofor.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chiwetel-ejiofor.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chiwetel-ejiofor-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chiwetel-ejiofor-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a>Scott Derrickson&#8217;s <strong><em>Doctor Strange<\/em><\/strong> is approaching production and the casting rumours are heating up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/chiwetel-ejiofor-circling-role-in-marvels-doctor-strange\/\">The Wrap<\/a> reports that 12 Years A Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor is close to signing on to join Benedict Cumberbatch in an unknown, although they&#8217;re suggesting that he&#8217;ll play The Ancient One rather than the villain Baron Mordo.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-strange-has-cumberbatchs-mentor-been-cast\/\">previously reported<\/a> that Marvel was looking at Ken Watanabe, Bill Nighy and Morgan Freeman for the role of The Ancient One, but there is no mention of those three in The Wrap&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>Ejiofor is incredibly busy, with <strong><em>The Martian<\/em><\/strong> currently filming, <strong><em>Z For Zachariah<\/em> <\/strong>premiering at Sundance, and <strong><em>The Secret In Their Eyes<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Triple Nine<\/em><\/strong> also on the way. However, The Wrap says that he&#8217;s been turning down roles that would clash with Doctor Strange&#8217;s shooting schedule.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Doctor Strange<\/em>\u00a0is in cinemas\u00a04 November 2016.\u00a0<strong><strong><strong><strong>For more on the comics that have inspired the movie, pick up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/bookazines\/100-all-time-greatest-comics.html\">our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another British Oscar nominee is circling Scott Derrickson&#8217;s Doctor Strange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":71213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4298,2867],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Doctor-Strange.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}