It became, “All right, if you’re putting together an Illuminati, who would actually need to be in it?” You’d have people with certain power sets. It was just a moving target of who’s available and who’s right. But the lineup is close to, I think, who was originally in my first draft, which was: “Okay, I know it can’t actually be this.” And then it ended up being close to that. “The final lineup in that group is beyond my wildest dreams of who we could get - and then dispatch. I just don’t think it was ever an option, because of availability.”Īccording to Waldron, the final lineup of the Illuminati was very close to what he had written in the script, which is something he never imagined he would get away with: He then said that, as far as he knows, no one ever reached out to Tom Cruise, who was shooting Mission: Impossible 7 while Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was in production: As it was being talked about online, I was like, Yeah, that’d be cool!”
That was definitive proof that the conversation at some point happened inside the Marvel Studios headquarters, though the writer did confirm that the idea came to him after seeing online speculation: I mean, there’s no cut footage of Tom Cruise! But I love Tom Cruise, and I said to Kevin at one point, I was like, ‘Could we get Tom Cruise’s Iron Man?’ I remember reading about that in Ain’t It Cool News back in the day, that Tom Cruise was going to be Iron Man.” The writer was directly asked the question about fans speculating online on Cruise’s appearance in the movie, and he replied: That was a long-running theory online leading up to the release of the Doctor Strange sequel, though a couple of weeks before the release it had already been debunked by multiple Marvel scoopers.
WARNING: This story contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, screenwriter Michael Waldron has confirmed that he did pitch to Kevin Feige the idea of having Tom Cruise as an Iron Man variant in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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