Marvel’s Doctor Strange screenwriter drops a Cthulhu-based hint!

January 22, 2015

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Jon Spaihts, the screenwriter for Marvel’s upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch-led Doctor Strange movie, just made a fairly interesting – and potentially Easter Egg-crammed – Tweet.

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— Jon Spaihts (@jonspaihts) January 22, 2015

The Tweet contains an excerpt from the unfinished H.P. Lovecraft novel Azathoth, as well as all manner of trinkets and goodies, and – wait – could that be the Eye of Agamotto?

Thoughts? Could Spaihts be hinting at a potential Cthulhu-esque involvement in Doctor Strange’s future?

The writer of this piece was: Craig Neilson (aka Ceej)

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TAGS: Azathoth, Benedict CUmberbatch, Cthulhu, Doctor Strange, H.P. Lovecraft, Jon Spaihts, Twitter

6 responses to “Marvel’s Doctor Strange screenwriter drops a Cthulhu-based hint!”

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chaelamity

January 24, 2015 at 2:43 pm

It sounds more like a reference to Nightmare rather than being used to denote any type of Lovecraft themed involvement.

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Zhimbo

January 23, 2015 at 3:48 pm

Apparently “Cthulhu” is what people say now when they mean “Lovecraft”, ‘cuz there’s nothing “Cthulhu-based” about this.

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1. Big Comic Page Editorial Team.
  
  January 24, 2015 at 12:11 am
  
  Well, Azathoth is a Cthulhu Mythos Old God. But I guess it comes down to whether you agree with the term ‘Cthulhu Mythos’, or prefer ‘Lovercaft Mythos’. Either way, to say there’s nothing Cthulhu-based isn’t necessarily true, and is more an question of semantics.
  
  Still exciting, though :)
  
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  1. Zhimbo
    
    January 24, 2015 at 3:57 pm
    
    The complete text of the unpublished story fragment “Azatoth” (not a poem, by the way) can be found here, if one really wants to look for clues. My guess? I suspect it’s just a nice nod to “weird fiction” that also conveniently features the word “strange”.
    
    http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/az.aspx
    
    It may have been an early trial run for “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”, which takes place in Lovecraft’s Dreamlands, which seems consistent with chaelamity’s comment re:Nightmare.
Silviu Udrea

January 22, 2015 at 10:11 pm

I can’t wait till it will be available to us :)

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