Following his work on the acclaimed Disney Plus series Loki, Michael Waldron's next MCU foray will be Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, for which he thanks his time writing on Rick and Morty as prep.
In an interview with Slash Film, Waldron revealed he was tasked with tying together not just the MCU films and Disney Plus series, but also the various other universes including Spider-Man and X-Men. Finding a writer experienced with the multiverse and the intricacies of trans-dimensional travel is no easy task.
But Waldron thanks his experience writing for ‘Rick and Morty’ as a test course for writing Multiverse of Madness.
"It was the perfect training ground. Because every week in that show, we take a big sci-fi concept that frankly, you could probably write a movie about, you could write some kind of high concept spec about at least, and we basically blow it apart in the first five minutes of the show.
"Really, you've got to explain it to the audience quickly and then shift it to the background so they can get swept up in the adventure, in the rest of what's just a 22-minute episode. And so 'Rick and Morty' trained me in how to introduce these big sci-fi concepts in ways that were digestible, palatable to the audience, and without getting them bogged down in the boring details."
Before serving as executive producer and head writer of Loki, Waldron had worked on the Adult Swim series, Rick and Morty for years. In an interview with Bleeding Cool, it was revealed that Dan Harmon chose Waldron to be the series showrunner of Rick and Morty season 5 before Waldron ultimately accepted to take on Loki.
Waldron had come on board of the project after the original director of Doctor Strange, Scott Derrickson, had officially left the project and was replaced by director Sam Raimi. The collaborative minds of both Waldron and Raimi spent months salvaging and reshooting Multiverse of Madness.
"... When COVID came down and delayed us several months, it gave Sam and me the opportunity to say, 'all right, well, now we have the time. If we wanted to start over from scratch, what would our version of the movie be?' And Marvel was fortunately very supportive of that," Waldron reveals. "And he and I set to work and kind of created our own thing."
Delays caused by the pandemic were a blessing as the two had been given more time to execute their vision. Waldron accredits his adaptive skills working in TV as preparing him for the crunch.
Christian Angeles is a Freelance Writer for IGN.
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