Marvel's Doctor Strange Conjures Up a November 2016 Release Date We didn't get any confirmation that Benedict Cumberbatch would be playing the title role . The Master of the Mystic Arts set to make his big screen debut in just 2 years! Come November 2016, the good Doctor is in! Could #BenedictCumberbatch Be #DoctorStrange ? At a special presentation at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige announced Marvel's " Doctor Strange " would hit theaters November 4, 2016, marking the hero's big screen debut. Scott Derrickson will direct the film introducing the Master of the Mystic Arts to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "It takes a while to work on these movies before they're ready to come to you in theaters," said Feige. "Doctor Stephen Strange, brilliant neurosurgeon, bit of an arrogant fellow who gets in a car accident and ruins what he thinks are the tools of his trade: his hands. "In the