{"id":76224,"date":"2015-05-28T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=76224"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:58:02","slug":"doctor-strange-casting-gender-swaps-the-ancient-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-strange-casting-gender-swaps-the-ancient-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Strange casting gender-swaps The Ancient One"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76226\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tilda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76226\" alt=\"Tilda Swinton as Eve in Only Lovers Left Alive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tilda.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tilda.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tilda-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tilda-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tilda Swinton as Eve in Only Lovers Left Alive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a fair bit of speculation about which (male) actor would play the Ancient One in Scott Derrickson&#8217;s <strong><em>Doctor Strange<\/em><\/strong>, it looks like Marvel are looking in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/tilda-swinton-talks-join-benedict-798348\">THR<\/a> reports that the magnificent Tilda Swinton is in talks to play the &#8220;Tibetan mystic known as the Ancient One, who is training pupils to be the next sorcerer supreme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We obviously applaud the casting of Tilda Swinton in anything, although the whitewashing of a Tibetan character is regrettable. Also, wouldn&#8217;t it have been absolutely brilliant if Swinton had played the Sorcerer Supreme? Imagine that!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Doctor Strange<\/em><\/strong> stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and starts filming in the UK in November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/only.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76227\" alt=\"only\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/only.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Doctor Strange<\/em> is released 26 September 2016 in the UK. Keep up with the latest comic-book movie news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favourite stars to play a gender-swapped whitewashed Doctor Strange mentor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":76225,"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":[2867],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/The-Ancient-One-Doctor-Strange.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76224"}],"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=76224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}