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Your short list for The 11th Doctor

Well, as I said here, I'd quite like Richard Coyle from Coupling. I think he'd be a marvelously impish and slightly less sane Doctor, which would make a nice change from both Eccleston and Tennant, and he's got the range to play a lot of depth in the character. I'd love Eddie Izzard in "serious actor" mode, but I doubt whether they could get him. And I'd love Bill Nighy, but that (along with David Warner) seems destined never to happen (at least on video - the David Warner "Unbound" audio is great).
 
Thought so. Didn't watch much of Robin Hood but he did seem to be more interesting than the drip playing Robin...will be interesting to see if he can do more than a pantomime villain :)
 
Rickman are especially excellent ideas.
Alan Rickman would have been the Doctor in the Leonard Nimoy directed film of the early '90s. Pierce Brosnan is usually mentioned in connection with the film, but it doesn't appear that he was seriously considered.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Colin Salmon yet.
I thought Rickman was being looked at for the Master (or was he called Mandrake or something in that script?) for that film - still, the Tom Baker and K9 cameo might have been fun.
 
James Nesbitt

Eddie Izzard (he can do wacky and deadly serious, trust me)

Jarvis Cocker (well, that's the Tenth Doctor really)

Stephen Fry

Hugh Laurie (never gonna happen)

Steve Coogan

Adrian Edmondson
 
Hugh Laurie (never gonna happen)

Found this online...

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:lol: :techman:

Adrian Edmondson

You know...given I can't see Vyvyan as The Doctor, I also haven't seen him in anything else ever. So, does he have that kind of range? Is there something I should watch to get a better sense of his abilities as The Doc? I ask because the idea is so bizarre to me that it might work...
 
I definitely think he can carry it. He can do serious acting, it's just that we rarely ever see it. He did a docudrama about the Chernobyl disaster in which his performance was pretty well received:

Surviving Disaster merged drama with documentary and a Bernard Hill voice-over. It covered the Chernobyl reactor explosion with Adrian Edmondson putting in a remarkable performance as Dr Valeri Legasov, the man leading the investigation into Chernobyl who hanged himself on the second anniversary of the explosion.

And he's been in Holby City.
 
Is that available on Netflix? I don't even know if they have Netflix in the UK. What's the name of the documentary? I'll search for it.

And what's "Holby City"? A theater group?
 
^

Holby City is a spin off from Casualty. Think ER but British, with barely a 100th of the budget and shot on video. :lol:

The docudrama was called Surviving Disaster but I'm not sure if it ever even got a dvd release.
 
Thought so. Didn't watch much of Robin Hood but he did seem to be more interesting than the drip playing Robin...will be interesting to see if he can do more than a pantomime villain :)

he was good in Vicar of Dib as well, showed some good comedic skill...
 
Ive been with EMH for Eddie Izzard for a while now.


Now, if John Simm hadnt already played The Master, i would love hi as The Doctor, his performance in a shit story was great, just a shame i doubt hell be cast as The Doctor.


Bill Nighy would be sooo coool with a hint of sarcasm and a bit of moodyness.
I like the idea of James Callis though, thats a good one.
I also would like to see Rufus Sewell though, he'd just nail it.
 
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