From the excellent Supervillain comes this discovery of an unproduced Dr. Strange script from the 1980′s.

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Alex Cox, the guy who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and wrote and directed Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, and Walker. He sat down with Stan Lee and hammered out a Dr. Strange story that includes Strange, Wong, Dormammu, Baron Mordo, and the Ancient One – then proceeded to write a script which went as far out as possible without changing or distorting those elements. Weirdly it presupposes both The Invisibles vol. 2 and the modern superhero film. It’s literally a film that could not be made in the time period it was written in, and the best part is the only thing that stopped it was corporate infighting. It’s really forward looking for what you can do with a superhero film – it’s not an origin story, it’s not about how the hero inspires anyone, or about revenge, or about superpowers even. All the baggage thats accepted in any superhero comic related film in the 30 years between Superman and Iron Man isn’t here. Hell, even Robocop – the best superhero movie ever – is an origin story. Cox dug Robocop quite a lot it seems – or he dug Dark Knight Returns – because there are echoes of it all through this Dr. Strange.

(Link via Aaron)

You can read the entire script for free at the author’s homepage.

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Posted by KirkUltra7 on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 8:10 pm.