DOCTOR STRANGE New Videos Play with Time Check out the new DOCTOR STRANGE trailers and spots! The film, directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister), stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Scott Adkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Benedict Wong. DOCTOR STRANGE will be released in theaters on November 4. After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.