AnMCUfan’s glimpse at the filming locations behind the Illuminati headquarters shows whatDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' Earth-838 looks like in real life. After the events ofWandaVision,Scarlet Witch’s MCU journeytook a dark turn thanks to the Darkhold, which corrupted Wanda Maximoff’s mind and led her tothe MCU’s Earth-838 timelinein search of her children. Meanwhile, the Illuminati ignored Doctor Strange’s pleads and underestimated Wanda’s power. Due to the Illuminati’s neglicence,Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessfeatured some of the most brutal deaths in the MCU so far.
On his popular Instagram accountstepphingthroughfilm, photographer Thomas Duke shares a few images of the real-life location where Wanda’s murder of the Earth-838 Illuminati took place, holding frames of the scene to compare it with the movie’s fictional setting.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' Illuminati HQ scenes were shot in the British Museum in London. Marvel used CGI to add a new room with a glass entrance, as well as a few statues. Check out the images below:
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Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness' Filming Locations Show How Movies Are Made
The real-life location used forDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' alternate-universe Illuminati headquarters shows how easy it is to create sci-fi worlds.With enough creativity and a few subtle enhancements, a location as well-known as the British Museum can look like a superhero team’s center of operations. The British Museum’s architecture fits the Illuminati’s elegant, ultra-clean aesthetics, and it contrasts with the bloodbath caused by the Scarlet Witch.
Elizabeth Olsen hadn’t met John Krasinski when filming her Illuminati scenes
In his Instagram post’s description, Thomas Duke mentions"these actors never actually filming together?!".Indeed,Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesswas filmed in 2020 and 2021, through the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the Illuminati’s actors had to film their parts separately, which is part of why they seem unfazed when each of their colleagues die. According to the actor herself,Elizabeth Olsen hadn’t met John Krasinski when filming her Illuminati scenes, and she didn’t even know if Marvel had cast Krasinski as Mister Fantastic yet at that point.
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Marvel Movies Look Very Different From The Final Product Behind The Scenes
It’s common to hear how Marvel movies use and overuse green screens and CGI. However, there’s more to superhero movies and shows than the cast wearing motion-capture suits on an empty green set. There are countless variables at play when creating projects as big asDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. A quickly rotating group of Illuminati candidates, inevitable rewrites and reshoots, and unforeseen delays caused theDoctor Strangesequel to find creative ways to shoot its Earth-838 scenes. Yet, Scarlet Witch’s Illuminati massacre looks seamless on screen.
