Nine years since his most recent film and 15 since his last in the superhero genre, Marvel's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" marks director Sam Raimi's reentry into moviemaking.
The filmmaker, who helped establish the genre with the original Tobey Maguire-led "Spider-Man" trilogy in the early aughts, said returning to the format for Marvel Studios (which launched in 2008 with "Iron Man") was drastically different than his time working on the Sony pictures between 2002 and 2007.
"It's very exciting to see how Marvel has streamlined their operation," he said. "It's a wonderful place to work. There was nothing like that to help you as a filmmaker when productions were all one-offs, before there was a company that simply saw to the integrity of the characters."
