It's been a few months since we've had a superhero dominating the weekly Box Office, and while the summer superhero season is just around the corner, you can get a temporary Marvel fix when Doctor Strange arrives on home video this month. Scott Derrickson introduced the MCU to the realm of magic with his Marvel debut, and the Blu-ray features promise to take us behind the scenes of the creative process.

Doctor Strange drops first on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere, February 14th, and then on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital SD and On Demand on February 28th,. The physical media options are packed with over 80-minutes of bonus materials, including five behind-the-scenes featurettes, outtakes, audio commentary, and Part 2 of Taika Waititi's delightful Marvel mockumentary, Team Thor, and five deleted scenes.

EW has debuted one of those scenes, featuring Mads Mikkelsen's villainous Kaecillius, and it's not too hard to see why it ended up on the cutting room floor. It's not bad, and a it looks good, but it's ultimately just not necessary. Check it out for yourself below.

Speaking with the outlet, Derrickson offered some insight into why he chose to ditch the five scenes you'll see on the Blu-ray, explaining he didn't want any unnecesarry action to take away from Strange's journey.

“I really liked those scenes and I think everyone did a good job on them...[But] they weren’t hard to cut. We tested the movie with and without them. It wasn’t just about the audience’s reaction, it was really how the movie felt. Pauline Kael used to always talk about the director needing to know where the audience wants to be, and at that point of the movie, the audience didn’t want to be jumping around, they wanted to stay with Strange, who’s on this very interesting, very personal, and very dramatic journey. The intrusion of those scenes was breaking up the soul of the movie in a way that just wasn’t necessary. We didn’t need it. When we removed them, we found that we lost very little, and we gained more power in the major arc of the character. So, it was a pretty easy choice in the end.”

Doctor Strange stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, and Rachel McAdams. Strange is expected to pop up next in Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok.

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