Welcome to the multiverse: Doctor Strange is now part of Spider-Man 3

Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) joins the cast of Tom Holland’s next Spider-Man movie, which basically confirms how Electro (Jamie Foxx) will show up.

Earlier this week, we learned that Jamie Foxx would be appearing alongside Tom Holland in the upcoming Spider-Man 3, and the kicker was that he’d be playing his character from 2014’s
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: the villain Electro. “But wait,” we told ourselves. “That makes no sense. Those two movies happened in different worlds. Even the guys playing Spider-Man were different. It cannot be borne!”

Well, now we know where Sony and Marvel are taking this. According to The Hollywood Reporter, not only with Spider-Man 3 feature Jamie Foxx’s Electro, but it will also include Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, who will take over the mentor role for Peter Parker previously filled by Tony Stark (who’s dead) and Nick Fury (who’s somewhere out in space).

What does this tell us? Well, Doctor Strange’s whole thing is parallel universes. He’s even getting his own sequel movie called Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness coming out in 2022. And the Spider-Man movies set up the idea of parallel realities in 2019’s Far From Home, when the villain Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) claimed to be from one. Sure, he was lying, but everyone believed it, which shows it’s something that could happen.

We don’t know the specifics yet, but I think this pretty much confirms that Doctor Strange and Spider-Man will be dimension-hopping in Spider-Man 3. At one point, I fully expect them to visit a reality where Spider-Man is played by Andrew Garfield and he’s fighting against Jamie Foxx’s Electro. Or maybe Electro will break into their reality; you get the idea.

Spider-Man 3, which has yet to get its own subtitle with the word “home” somewhere in there, is due to come out on December 17, 2021, although with all the delays going on recently it’s hard to know if that will hold.

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