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Martin Clunes as the 11th Doctor? (The Next Doctor spoiler)

Starkers

Starkers

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You really have to worry about some of the tabloids...http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/01/26/martin-clunes-said-no-to-doctor-who-115875-21073671/

Martin Clunes was poised to become the new Doctor Who – but it is claimed he pulled out in a row over cash.

The Men Behaving Badly star had signed up for the Christmas special with producers wanting to give him the full-time job this year. But four days before filming, the deal is said to have collapsed as terms could not be agreed.
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Clunes isn't a bad actor, but I seriously doubt he was up for the role of the Doctor.Of course this would be easier to believe if the Mirror got any facts right!!

In last month’s Christmas special, Tennant came face to face with a future version of himself – Morrissey – in an episode set in Victorian London in which they battled the Cybermen.
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Er no he didn't!

It would seem that, if there's any truth in this, it is that Clunes was approached to play Jackson Lake...but even that isn't certain.
 
Hillariously inaccurate.

I'd always been under the impression that the part had been written specifically for David M. anyway.

I do wonder if the one part of it that's correct is the "dropped out of a part in DW four days before shooting began" bit. Lee Evans was cast on Monday of last week after another well-known actor dropped out at the last minute. Could it have been Clunes?
 
Ah now that would seem to make a lot more sense. I could easily see Evans being hired to replace Clunes ahead of Morrissey being hired to repalce him.
 
The slightly more believable Tabloid story of the day is the one about Freema making another guest appearance. If they wanted to have a familiar face around for the regeneration period Martha makes the most sense as we know she doesn’t want to spend her life with the Doctor. She can leave pretty quickly and Moffat can then bring in his own companion.

How one feels about that possibility depends on how one feels about Ms Agyeman of course...
 
StCoop said:
The slightly more believable Tabloid story of the day is the one about Freema making another guest appearance. If they wanted to have a familiar face around for the regeneration period Martha makes the most sense as we know she doesn’t want to spend her life with the Doctor. She can leave pretty quickly and Moffat can then bring in his own companion.

How one feels about that possibility depends on how one feels about Ms Agyeman of course...
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Actually whilst I'm on record as not being a great fan of Martha, I actually think that would be a good idea. The notion of the Doctor regenerating with no one else around and with no crossover from one to the other seems wrong somehow.

If not Martha then how about Mickey? Whoever it is I'm guessing they'd feature in the last special and maybe the first ep (or maybe more??) of s5, with the Doc's proper new companion showing up in the first episode.
 
StCoop said:
I'd always been under the impression that the part had been written specifically for David M. anyway.
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It's been claimed for a while by people who were pretty well-informed about other early 2008 filming that Morrissey was a last-minute replacement for someone else. Doesn't mean they were right, of course, or that Clunes was the one he was replacing.
 
Starkers said:
Actually whilst I'm on record as not being a great fan of Martha, I actually think that would be a good idea. The notion of the Doctor regenerating with no one else around and with no crossover from one to the other seems wrong somehow.

If not Martha then how about Mickey? Whoever it is I'm guessing they'd feature in the last special and maybe the first ep (or maybe more??) of s5, with the Doc's proper new companion showing up in the first episode.
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I would love to see Rickey again. Or Jack maybe.
 
I actually don't think this is that crazy. They obviously get the facts wrong with the second bit, but it's been fairly well documented that Smith wasn't the first choice.
 
Tomalak said:
I actually don't think this is that crazy. They obviously get the facts wrong with the second bit, but it's been fairly well documented that Smith wasn't the first choice.
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It has? Where? (And I don't mean Tabloid speculation either.)
 
StCoop said:
Tomalak said:
I actually don't think this is that crazy. They obviously get the facts wrong with the second bit, but it's been fairly well documented that Smith wasn't the first choice.
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It has? Where? (And I don't mean Tabloid speculation either.)
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Agreed. I, too, would like to read the documentation. I thought Moffat was adamant about this guy being the first pick...
 
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StCoop said:
Tomalak said:
I actually don't think this is that crazy. They obviously get the facts wrong with the second bit, but it's been fairly well documented that Smith wasn't the first choice.
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It has? Where? (And I don't mean Tabloid speculation either.)
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Agreed. I, too, would like to read the documentation. I thought Moffat was adamant about this guy being the first pick...
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Yeah every indication suggests that Smith was first or second through the door and they pretty much knew right away that he was the one.
 
Ha, okay, "documented" was the wrong word, but I thought it was widely rumoured among fannish circles that an established actor (not Paterson Joseph) was asked first. Smith did seem to come out of nowhere, and I don't remember Eccleston or Tennant, for example, auditioning. I'd be surprised if Moffat didn't have someone in mind for the role, but had to go back to the drawing board.

That's not to say being second choice is a bad thing - I think only Colin Baker and Tennant were first choice of the first ten Doctors, and there's the Bujold/Mulgrew example. The impression I got was that this was more like asking Hugh Grant before Eccleston, with the assumption that he probably would turn it down, rather than Smith being some kind of emergency replacement after they were jilted by the first choice.

I wouldn't read too much into the Confidential interviews. Moffat's not exactly going to say "Of course, I wanted Richard Attenborough, but frankly Matt Smith is all we could get" is he?
 
Tomalak said:
Ha, okay, "documented" was the wrong word, but I thought it was widely rumoured among fannish circles that an established actor (not Paterson Joseph) was asked first.
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Rumors that fans start are hardly a reliable source.

Perhaps the magazine in question read these fan rumors on a bbs and wrote the article based on that. Actually...I think that's how we ended up in Iraq...
 
Tomalak said:
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That's not to say being second choice is a bad thing - I think only Colin Baker and Tennant were first choice of the first ten Doctors,
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Is this right does anyone know? I thought Davison was always JNT's first choice for one.
 
JNT approached Richard Griffiths for the fifth Doctor, but Griffiths wasn't up for it. He also considered Iain Cuthbertson before settling on Davison.

As Tomalak mentions, RTD approached Hugh Grant as a "worth a shot" outside chance. I believe there were other names considered as well.
 
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