Hey folks, Harry here... Not quite caught up on sleep, but out of that Post-BNAT Coma, I have risen to pass on the rather spectacular news that burst forth from Butt-Numb-A-Thon 17. This year, my friend C Robert Cargill could not attend due to some kind of mysterious shennanigans that he has been embroiled across the pond in London, and had to bow out. BNAT is a huge thing for him, he throws ambient parties around the event, deemed it "GEEK CHRISTMAS" - but although he couldn't attend, he had to leave an impression. So this is what went down.
The video began with DOCTOR STRANGE director Scott Derrickson announcing that he was on the set of DOCTOR STRANGE (Below find a photo Scott posted on his FACEBOOK today with his producers - they're in the exact spot that his greeting began) and he walks over to Benedict Cumberbatch... and then this Cheshire Cat looking mother comes walking out clutching a bound copy of the script to DOCTOR STRANGE - and it is, of course, AICN's own Massawyrm, aka C Robert Cargill... who then reveals that the top secret thing he's abandoned all of us for is WRITING DOCTOR STRANGE for Marvel and his long time creative partner Scott Derrickson.
Let your mind boggle over that one.
THEN - Scott asks Benedict to do Cargill auditioning to BE DOCTOR STRANGE... - then in a separate video - Ben as Scott calls him or Benny Cumbercrap as Benedict Cargill refers to the actor - just continues to riff on the idea of Cargill being DOCTOR STRANGE. COMEDY GOLD - and I wish I could share the video - simply because - Benedict deserves world wide acclaim for nailing Massawyrm in a way beyond anything I could have imagined. Crazy.
I have to say, Cumberbatch is a more convincing Cargill than Cargill. BNAT came unglued. I've known Cargill for a billion years in online time, and I know his mannerisms, tics and verbal habits like any of you would know a dear friend's... but if Cargill ever writes an autobiographical movie - Benedict would have to play the obviously more handsome and more charming version of him. Giggle. Benedict roasted Cargill better than any FRIAR'S CLUB Broadcast I've ever seen.
It was... hysterical - but more than that - another of AICN's own - one of us, google goggle, has had dreams come true.
That said, let's give it up to the man, and hope that we all don't have to roast him here when the film comes out next November! Massawyrm writing a Marvel film... The End is Nigh!
Keep it cool,
Harry
Here's what Cargill said on FACEBOOK:
