David (Harry Potter) Yates to direct Doctor Who The Movie!
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Oy. Well, we'll see if it makes it to the screen.
Having the Director of the third highest grossing film of all-time on board will help a bit, I think.
Ralph Fiennes for the Doctor anyone?
aaah, aaah, aaah, BULLSHITCHOO!
Be very interesting how they tie it into Doctor Who chronology.
Would they keep Matt Smith as the Doctor? Bring in a twelth Doctor to then go into the TV series? Have a Doctor for the movie and kill him off, to immediately have another new one for the TV series? Would it work to make him, say, the 55th Doctor and completely bypass the TV continuity (by the time you got to the death of the 54th Doctor no-one would mind jumping straight to the 56th!).
dJE
Would they keep Matt Smith as the Doctor? Bring in a twelth Doctor to then go into the TV series? Have a Doctor for the movie and kill him off, to immediately have another new one for the TV series? Would it work to make him, say, the 55th Doctor and completely bypass the TV continuity (by the time you got to the death of the 54th Doctor no-one would mind jumping straight to the 56th!).
dJE
Read the story. It's going to be completely seperate from the TV series.
Ah, so it's "Dr. Who" Doctor Who.
I'd be down to watch that. As long as they don't re-re-redo the Daleks for the first outing. There are tons of other monsters the new series hasn't touched yet that could be awesome as a villain.
Mark
I'd be down to watch that. As long as they don't re-re-redo the Daleks for the first outing. There are tons of other monsters the new series hasn't touched yet that could be awesome as a villain.
Mark
IMO, it's cool that they're going the approach of the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies by having it be it's own separate thing from the TV series.
Hopefully, that'll be the only thing it has in common with the Cushing movies.
Wonder if they'll go back to the days of the First Doctor and Susan.
Wonder if they'll go back to the days of the First Doctor and Susan.
BLAH!!! I am SO freakin' sick of origin stories... Do they really think anyone who sees this movie is going to go in without at least the faintest idea of who the Doctor is and what his blue box does?
And yes, I'm only assuming this will be an origin story, but it seems like EVERYONE is doing them these days... The only way I see this working for me, personally, if it's the done in a way that tells the tale of the Doctor before he and Susan settle down in London. But I know this is outside of current continuity, so I'll just go back to my corner and sulk...
And yes, I'm only assuming this will be an origin story, but it seems like EVERYONE is doing them these days... The only way I see this working for me, personally, if it's the done in a way that tells the tale of the Doctor before he and Susan settle down in London. But I know this is outside of current continuity, so I'll just go back to my corner and sulk...
If this ever happens, repeat if, I wonder who could play the lead? He really has to be from the UK or pass for British. There are only a handful of actors with sufficient box-office clout to do so. Hugh Grant gets to be the Doctor at last? Sean Bean, in the vein of Nine? Clive Owen?
Or will they get an American - ie Johnny Depp - to do an English accent?
As regards it being separate from main continuity, I think that's fair enough. It will make it easier for casual - ie American - viewers to get into and if it's a complete disaster, fans of the tv show don't have to get too worked up about it.
Or will they get an American - ie Johnny Depp - to do an English accent?
As regards it being separate from main continuity, I think that's fair enough. It will make it easier for casual - ie American - viewers to get into and if it's a complete disaster, fans of the tv show don't have to get too worked up about it.
No! Emma Watson! She'd be an awesome Doctor.
No, really. She would.
Other choices...
Hugh Grant.
Ken Branagh.
Ralph Fiennes.
Ioan Gruffudd.
Michael Sheen.
^ Any of those work for me. Ditto the usual suspects - Nighy, the other Grant (Richard E). Or what about Liam Neeson?
I don't like the idea of "starting from scratch". Unless the BBC plans to cancel the series, I don't really see this taking off if it's a reimagining. They got away with the Peter Cushing films because, frankly, DW was only 2 years old at the time. There's a reason why all those storylines profiled in Lofficier's book "The Nth Doctor" never got made.
The only way this will work is if the TV series makes it definitive that the 13 life limit not longer applies, and therefore the Yates film involves the 53rd Doctor or something.
Or, of course, the film features either the Matt Smith Doctor or whoever gets chosen to play Twelve. I know the story says they won't be doing that, but frankly I don't see this movie happening if they don't. I certainly am not interested, especially since I got a sense of "we can do it better" in that story which has pushed my nose slightly out of joint.
Alex
The only way this will work is if the TV series makes it definitive that the 13 life limit not longer applies, and therefore the Yates film involves the 53rd Doctor or something.
Or, of course, the film features either the Matt Smith Doctor or whoever gets chosen to play Twelve. I know the story says they won't be doing that, but frankly I don't see this movie happening if they don't. I certainly am not interested, especially since I got a sense of "we can do it better" in that story which has pushed my nose slightly out of joint.
Alex
Nighy or Neeson - Yes.
If they decide to skew younger, what about Benedict Cumberbatch?
If they go with older, maybe Michael Gambon.
One thing that's for certain is outrage from fans who will boycott the movie by only seeing it two or three times on its initial release.
If they decide to skew younger, what about Benedict Cumberbatch?
If they go with older, maybe Michael Gambon.
One thing that's for certain is outrage from fans who will boycott the movie by only seeing it two or three times on its initial release.
@23Skiddoo^ I'm just looking at it as an alt-universe take on DW. You can have a Batman or Spider-man movie which is separate from the comics and reaches a wider interest but provokes interest in the comics and hopefully makes them sell more. Try to think of a DW movie as just being another adaptation of a classic franchise but in a different medium.
At the end of the day, if this movie gets made, it doesn't mean that someone will go round and wipe out all of the tv series from existence.
At the end of the day, if this movie gets made, it doesn't mean that someone will go round and wipe out all of the tv series from existence.
