‘Doctor Strange 2’ Scribe Michael Waldron On “Emotional” ‘Loki’ Season 2, New ‘Star Wars’ Pic, & Kang The Conqueror’s Whereabouts

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Warning: The following podcast has major spoilers about Disney/Marvel’s  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, in particular its epilogue.If you’re working in the new multiverse phase of the Marvel Cinematic universe, it’s indeed a juggling act and balancing it all has been screenwriter Michael Waldron.You can listen to our mind-blowing conversation with Waldron below:He cut his teeth in the MCU with the Disney+/Marvel series, Loki, which set the stage for the galaxy wars which are bound to erupt under the new bad guy Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) before tackling Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.However, there was another movie that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had to connect to, and that was Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home which also featured Benedict Cumberbatch’s magic maestro.

Waldron was already buds with No Way Home scribes Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers from their Community days together. “I used to get them coffee when I was a PA,” says Waldron.Waldron kept in contact with the duo during the writing of Doctor Strange 2 to make sure that they weren’t stepping on each other’s toes.“But when the release dates got swapped, that’s when it got tricky,” says Waldron.“I spent the bulk of this movie thinking we’d be coming out before No Way Home and that we were going to be blowing the lid on the multiverse.

When that shift in release dates happened, it was like the audience is going to be acclimated,” says the Emmy winning scribe of Rick and Morty, “Dr.

Strange is going to have had experience with the multiverse and that has a knock-down effect on everything.”In regards to Kang the Conqueror being MIA from Doctor Strange 2, Waldron says “to me it felt like we had the biggest