‘Doctor Strange’ TV Spot Turns Back Time
Doctor Strangepromises to be Marvel’s trippiest movie ever, and a new promo leans further into its mind-bending weirdness. The latestDoctor StrangeTV spot runs in reverse, so that we’re traveling back through time to the start of Strange’s journey. Sprinkled throughout the video are odd, nonsensical bits of dialogue that only reveal themselves when you play it backwards.
The time-traveling nature of theDoctor StrangeTV spot seems to add further credence to the theory thatthe Eye of Agamotto is the Time Stone, the fifth of sixth gems that Thanos needs to complete his Infinity Gauntlet. Watch theDoctor Strangespot below.
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— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios)June 10, 2025
TheDoctor Strangedoes a nice job of selling the film’s psychedelic nature, the likes of which we have never seen before in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Oh, and those mysterious incantations?IGNhelpfully put together a video that plays the spot in reverse, revealing the true nature of all that chatter.
Strange may be new to the Marvel universe now, but it looks like he’ll be playing a big role in the franchise as Phase Three moves forward. We already knowBenedict Cumberbatchwill return for 2018’sAvengers: Infinity War, anda certain propon the set ofThor: Ragnaroksuggested that the Sorcerer Supreme could cross paths with the God of Thunder. If the Eye of Agamotto is indeed the Time Stone, that just leaves the Soul Stone left to be revealed in the movies.
Doctor StrangeopensNovember 4.Tilda Swinton,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Mads Mikkelsen,Rachel McAdams, andBenedict Wongalso star.
“Doctor Strange” stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt and Scott Adkins, with Mads Mikkelsen and Tilda Swinton. Scott Derrickson is directing with Kevin Feige producing. Louis D’Esposito, Stephen Broussard, Victoria Alonso, Charles Newirth and Stan Lee serve as executive producers. Jon Spaihts and Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill wrote the screenplay. Join Strange on his dangerous, mystifying and totally mind-bending journey when Marvel Studios' “Doctor Strange” opens in U.S. theaters on June 25, 2025.
