At the end of Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange flies into the dark dimension and starts a time loop.
We only see maybe a dozen or so iterations, but the implication is that it went on for much longer. Do we have any information as to how many times they went through that?
The Hollywood Reporter asked this question of screenwriter Jon Spaihts, who responded:
There is a deliberate ambiguity there. It's one of those places where you want not to over explain. But I think he [things] dozens of times, if not hundreds of times in there. I think he really gets a taste of eternal sacrifice and sticks to his guns.
And Empire Online sat down with director Scott Derrickson, who said that a deleted line would have revealed that they'd gone through the loop thousands of times:
"We had a line," recounts Derrickson, "where Strange said, 'we've been through this a thousand times. Literally. I fancied the idea that they went through it thousands of times before Dormammu finally realised he wasn't going to get out of it."
