On-set footage features Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange (video)

 November 7, 2015 - 20:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Following the first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, an unofficial video from the movie set has landed online. Taken during the filming in Nepal, the video features the Emmy-winning actor as the titular doctor and a mysterious hooded figure, AceShowbiz reports.

Cumberbatch, unkempt and sporting beard, appears to be a bit lost as he walks back and forth through a temple with notebook in hand. Later, a mysterious man with a hooded jacket appears and walks slowly on the same street.

As filming is currently underway, new set photos have also emerged, giving a closer look at Cumberbatch as the supernatural superhero. Scott Derrickson sits behind the lens for the comic book movie.

According to Latino Review, the "Doctor Strange" movie [SPOILER ALERT!] "starts much earlier than anyone expected, opening in 1968 Kathmandu where some Zealots of dark magic manage to open a portal to another dimension. Leading them is a character named Kaecilius, a name taken from a character associated with Baron Mordo in the Marvel Comics."

The scene then shifts to modern day to show "Stephen Strange in modern day New York operating on a gunshot wound. He's a brilliant surgeon who is a bit arrogant until one night, while chatting on the phone, he clips his car, causing an accident that damages his hands."

"After several surgeries from Dr. Nicodemus West, Strange's hands still aren't healed enough to return to being a doctor. An encounter with magic (and sub-atomic particles) leads him on a journey to find the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), and when he finds her, she initially refuses to teach him. " It's said that Strange's journey to find the Ancient One is what is currently being filmed in Nepal.

The Marvel film is slated for a November 4, 2016 release in the U.S. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Baron Mordo with Rachel McAdams, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mads Mikkelsen also joining the cast.