Dr. Strange Days: Is the Sorcerer Supreme First For Marvel / Disney Films?

Though his last shot at breaking into Hollywood was in the form of an animated direct-to-video DVD, recent rumors suggest that Dr. Strange, Marvel's Sorcerer Supreme, could have a more auspicious live-action debut as the first character to have a film released under the new Marvel / Disney banner.

Co-created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the Dr. Strange movie rights have been shuffled from studio to studio, and attached to a number of writers and directors including, at one point, Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro. However, the world's most renowned supernatural neurosurgeon returned to Marvel's control as part of Disney's multi-billion dollar acquisition.

Now Deadline | New York is reporting that Marvel has hired the writers of the Conan relaunch, Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, to pen the script, but no director has been named as of yet.