La fe que le tengo a esta película mueve montañas. #DoctorStrange pic.twitter.com/snfBk1jY9o
— Ra’s Al Ghul. (@iharvcore) November 8, 2015
Last Friday, we got our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange and the character’s Merkin of Lies. Benedict has been in Nepal for more than a week filming Doctor Strange, and now we have our first big look at Chiwetel Ejiofor in character. Chiwetel is playing Strange’s friend-turned-enemy, although I think they’re just BFFs in these scenes in Nepal. Benedict and Chiwetel are pretty friendly in real life too – they’ve worked together, they’re friends, they might even hang out a little in real life. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Benedict went to Marvel and was like, “I’d really like Chiwetel in this role.” Not that Chiwetel couldn’t get the role on his own – he totally could. But I’m guessing that Benedict wanted to work with him again too.
Meanwhile, did you know/remember that Benedict set up his own production company a few years ago? It’s true. He set up SunnyMarch with some friends and the only thing SunnyMarch has ever produced is a film short called Little Favour in 2013. That’s Benedict’s sole producer credit. Not surprisingly, SunnyMarch is losing money hand over fist.
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch’s acting skills have made him the toast of Hollywood, but he might be advised to give up any grander ambitions. The Old Harrovian set up a production company with three friends to make TV shows and films, but newly published accounts disclose it made losses of £177,000 in the past year.
The firm, SunnyMarch, has assets of just £21,000. It appears to have produced just one short film — starring Cumberbatch — which relied on funding of £86,240 from members of the public who gave through a fundraising website. At the company’s launch two years ago, Cumberbatch declared: ‘We’re at an exciting juncture… we have scripts in development and books that we are looking to option.’
[From The Daily Mail]
My guess is that this production company was just a small vanity thing that Benedict decided to do several years ago, and then he either lost interest or simply got too busy to really focus on it. Benedict has been legitimately busy the past three years (except for a weird lull last year when Bendy was going out to the opening of envelope), and his focus at this point in his career seems to be solely as an actor. Which isn’t the worst thing. Many, many actors have these little production companies and very few of them actually make any money, so on that, Benedict is pretty average. The only thing that bugs me is that they crowdsourced for their company and it seems like Benedict just made sure his mates cut themselves some nice paychecks and left it at that.
PS… As foretold, Benedict was in England today to receive his CBE. He brought Sophie Hunter! You can see some photos here.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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