more crazy stuff from the Sun

[wamdue]

We have ways of making Who talk

THE new Doctor Who is set to battle NAZIS — at the Natural History Museum.

The episode, inspired by classic movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark, is lined up for Matt Smith’s first series as the Timelord next year.


The Doctor will be stranded in the London museum and forced to fight a strikeforce of Hitler’s stormtroopers, not to mention rampaging monsters.


Who boss Russell T Davies said there would be an “Indiana Jones-type chamber hidden beneath the floor with sliding stone doors and stuff”.


He also plans to borrow the idea of a lost Ark.



The plot was also inspired by comic Ricky Gervais' hit movie Night At The Museum. Ricky played a doctor at a museum where the exhibits come to life.

The special Who episode is being written by League Of Gentleman star Mark Gatiss.


He is also set to write a second storyline for the series. That will feature the Timelord meeting a TV star from the 1950s, who appeared in a Doctor Who-style show called Nightshade.


The Doctor comes face to face with Professor Nightshade as monsters the prof used to do battle with on TV come to life.
The episode is based on a Doctor Who book Mark wrote in 1992 called Nightshade.

this article lost all creditability when it mentioned RTDs

 

[Brendan Moody]

The details about the Gatiss World War II script are drawn from RTD's book The Writer's Tale; it was developed for series four but replaced by "The Fires of Pompeii." Maybe it'll turn up in series five, but I doubt it.

The rumor about an adaptation of Nightshade comes from the same source as a bunch of other absurd series five rumors that never came to anything.

And, of course, no one other than the showrunner is going to be doing two stories in a single series.

So yeah, more evidence that the Sun will print anything it can find to catch the attention of Who fans.

 

[wamdue]

not that I am against a Nightshade type episode (ive looked it up) the question is with "The Journal of Impossible Things" now being a book in the Whoverse, would they really need to use Nightshade?

 

[Winterwind]

I think it lost all credibility when it referred to the Doctor as a "Timelord" and not "Time Lord".

But it is indeed more crazy stuff from the Sun.

 

[Cky]

Ricky Gervais' movie? He has a cameo.

 

[diankra]

Ricky Gervais' movie? He has a cameo.

The Sun is a British tabloid. Therefore anyone British is the star, however small their actual part (for instance, the first season of Smallville starred Kelly Brook) - unless, of course, said actor is currently on the knock-em-down list, in which case the story is how their attempt to make it in Hollywood has flopped, and they can't get anything more than a cameo...

 

[Cky]

I know, I'm British. The only time I see The Sun is when I'm at the hairdressers, I read the sport pages because they are better than the Daily mail.

 

[wamdue]

I sometimes read the sun at work, dont know who brings it in however, I dont BUY any paper, read some online, or if there is one in a cafe ill read that, but I dont buy one

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

..To say nothing of teh fact that the story references Davies as the source. Isn't he ratehr far from the new series production at this point? And if he knew details of Moffat's first season, why would he go blabbing it around? That's the showrunner's job, and for next year that ain't him.

Mark

 

[wamdue]

im sure RTDs will provide some fun quotes, when he has seen S5 & the 11th Doctor, but until then anything he says about S5 is 99% bullshit.

That said im sure Moffatt is going to talk to RTDs about his plans at some points, if only to ask for advise.

 

[StCoop]

..To say nothing of teh fact that the story references Davies as the source.

It's literally them just copying the details about Gatiss' unused S4 script out of "The Writer's Tale".

 

[Stevil2001]

That said im sure Moffatt is going to talk to RTDs about his plans at some points, if only to ask for advise.

I doubt it. RTD said they had a meeting planned, but he ended up not really saying anything. The Moff knows how to run a television show, he knows how to write Doctor Who. Anything he needs to know that he doesn't already, he's not going to figure it out if RTD shot him an e-mail.

 

[Brendan Moody]

Plus RTD has said that he doesn't want to know too much about Moffat's plans; he wants to be a Doctor Who viewer again, tuning on a Saturday like everyone else. I'm sure he's heard bits and pieces, but not much more.

 

[Stevil2001]

Heck, he didn't want to know about Moffat's plans when he was in charge!

 

[wamdue]

well we know David Tennant has seen some of what Moffatt has done for Matt Smith, so if RTD wanted to see whats been done, im sure he could

 

[Allyn Gibson]

well we know David Tennant has seen some of what Moffatt has done for Matt Smith, so if RTD wanted to see whats been done, im sure he could

How do we know this? I know that Tennant has said that Smith will do a fine job as the Doctor, but I haven't seen Tennant comment on what Smith's scripts will look like.

Now, it's probable that Tennant has some idea of what Moffat wants to do; he said that he had a meeting with Moffat and was sorely tempted to stay for another season. So Tennant probably knows, in a vague way, what the outline of the fifth season's arc looks like. But I doubt he'd have intimate details about the scripts Smith will be seeing.

 

[wamdue]

well we know David Tennant has seen some of what Moffatt has done for Matt Smith, so if RTD wanted to see whats been done, im sure he could

How do we know this? I know that Tennant has said that Smith will do a fine job as the Doctor, but I haven't seen Tennant comment on what Smith's scripts will look like.

he said it on Doctor Who Confidential, he said that he had seen some of the scripts and was jealous of Matt Smith.

thats how I recall it anyways.

 

[diankra]

In any tabloid news story on Doctor (and a lot else) there will be the bit which might be genuine exclusive leaked news, and the stuff that is waffled up to fill the word count (and justify a picture) by a writer who may know the series, or who may have got volunteered to write because the Who expert has the day off.
In other words, obvious errors don't mean that there's nothing in it; there might be a morsel of truth sandwiched by waffle. Equally, it could just mean they had a slow news day and an empty space, and looked online for anything that could fill it.

 

[FlyingLemons]

The tabloids are lazy these days - in order to get the drop on upcoming Doctor Who storylines, the journos register on Outpost Gallifrey and just spend their time pressing F5 until a juicy looking thread is created where someone has spotted the series being filmed, or a "source" has just said something like the Rani is going to come back from the dead to restore Gallifrey, played by some chick off Hollyoaks.

This is then reworded and checked for spelling errors and then slapped into tomorrow's edition as an "exclusive", only to get proven wrong when the real episode that was discussed proved the OP was full of shit. This sounds like that's what's happened again in this case.

 

[wamdue]

The tabloids are lazy these days - in order to get the drop on upcoming Doctor Who storylines, the journos register on Outpost Gallifrey and just spend their time pressing F5 until a juicy looking thread is created where someone has spotted the series being filmed, or a "source" has just said something like the Rani is going to come back from the dead to restore Gallifrey, played by some chick off Hollyoaks.

they really should not be allowed to get away with that.