WandaVision, Feige had teased that the events of the show would lead “directly” into the Doctor Strange sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. That plan fell apart when director Scott Derrickson abruptly departed the MCU to direct The Black Phone, cowritten with his Doctor Strange screenwriter, C. Robert Cargill, saying that he was leaving to protect his own mental health. “He wanted to do one movie, and Marvel wanted to do another movie,” Cargill said. “So he sat there and said, ‘Well, shit, I’ve got this great script [The Black Phone] that I wrote with Cargill.’ ”
