I think I'd rather see Hayley Atwell as a companion not Emma Watson.
David (Harry Potter) Yates to direct Doctor Who The Movie!
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I think I'd rather see Hayley Atwell as a companion not Emma Watson.
Question time: How can you make a Doctor Who Movie and not make it feel like a two-hour special episode of the TV Series...When Doctor Who is so off the wall you can do anything in a TV episode? (Including tell the story of Doctor Who fans who unite to form an ELO tribute band?)
Have a young Hartnall-Doc story? Could happen mid-season next year; have it be a Matt Smith lite episode.
Origin Story? Could happen next season. Just start with Amy being like, "So, I think it's time you told me about things from the beginning."
Dalek-fest? The Dalek festival at the end of season four was pretty awesome, but if you throw even more millions of dollars at the production I suppose you could make an even grander one.
Have a young Hartnall-Doc story? Could happen mid-season next year; have it be a Matt Smith lite episode.
Origin Story? Could happen next season. Just start with Amy being like, "So, I think it's time you told me about things from the beginning."
Dalek-fest? The Dalek festival at the end of season four was pretty awesome, but if you throw even more millions of dollars at the production I suppose you could make an even grander one.
That's basically what I'm expecting. A big budget Dalek fest, perhaps even a modernization of the Cushing movies. Hell, the hero could very well be a human named "Dr. Who."
I would envision something really budget-breaking, with tons of locations-- like The Chase but good or The Key to Time but shorter. Show of all times, spaces, and genres in the course of 120 minutes.
^^An adaptation of Daleks Master Plan then? You got a history-spanning epic with Lots of Daleks. Cha-ching at the box office.
Two things:
1) Spectacle. Bigger budget means more effects, and better effects. Not only that, but the style of cinematography is totally different for a film than for a TV show (films are shown on screens that expand everything up to gigantic size, while TV programs are shown on relatively small screens in the corner of your living room) so it's going to have a different sort of look anyway.
2) Length and structure. Let's say the movie is a bit over two hours -- that's the length of three episodes. Now, the TV show has done three-parter stories before (S3 11/12/13, S6 5/6/7) but they've always been quite disjointed affairs with each episode being mostly self-contained. A movie, however, would be one single continuous indivisible story told from beginning to end in one single sitting.
I guess they figure it's an opening for them -- if they bring out the movie while they're in-between Doctors on the show, then the general sentiment will be "Oh, we get two new Doctors instead of one" rather than "What?? No Matt Smith?! Blasphemy!!"
I would have to agree in general, but I have to ask: Is there a fan theory that makes the Cushing Dr Who movies fit into the series?
^^^
It happened in another reality with its own version of the Doctor.
It happened in another reality with its own version of the Doctor.
Cushing's character is an aged 10B, the David Tennant clone.
What will happen in a Doctor Who movie
1. Origin story. Hollywood loves these because it makes the proles feel special getting into the ground floor of a new franchise.
2. Hot young actor as the Doctor. Honestly with David Tennant and Matt Smith we shouldn't be surprised. Whether he's British or not depends on who's available during casting.
3. No new Doctor Who on TV. I think Hollywood has learned from the disaster that was Star Trek not to have a movie and a TV show at the same time. Three years. Hmm that's the length of Smith's run. I suspect maybe a 6 month break between the TV show and the movie.
Some might ask why the BBC would do this. It's free money Duh?! If the movie succeeds the BBC doesn't have to waste it's own money making Doctor Who. If it doesn't, they'll probably just reboot the series early and hire a new production staff. Win Win for the Beeb.
4. What the fans want doesn't matter. If Star Trek proved one thing, movie makers refuse to listen to fans as a point of pride. Yates made it clear, the movie isn't going to be part of the TV continuity. Which pretty much means the TV continuity is now official dead (except for BF but they only have the license for 5 years).
1. Origin story. Hollywood loves these because it makes the proles feel special getting into the ground floor of a new franchise.
2. Hot young actor as the Doctor. Honestly with David Tennant and Matt Smith we shouldn't be surprised. Whether he's British or not depends on who's available during casting.
3. No new Doctor Who on TV. I think Hollywood has learned from the disaster that was Star Trek not to have a movie and a TV show at the same time. Three years. Hmm that's the length of Smith's run. I suspect maybe a 6 month break between the TV show and the movie.
Some might ask why the BBC would do this. It's free money Duh?! If the movie succeeds the BBC doesn't have to waste it's own money making Doctor Who. If it doesn't, they'll probably just reboot the series early and hire a new production staff. Win Win for the Beeb.
4. What the fans want doesn't matter. If Star Trek proved one thing, movie makers refuse to listen to fans as a point of pride. Yates made it clear, the movie isn't going to be part of the TV continuity. Which pretty much means the TV continuity is now official dead (except for BF but they only have the license for 5 years).
But...the BBC doesn't waste money making Doctor Who. It's one of the best selling to Foreign Market (Which is growing) shows they have, and they get to air something so many viewers want, which is also part of their charter, something for Everyone and Something Everyone wants.
Hey, thats my pet theory!!!!!
No. The Cushing movies, with their fire-extinguisher Daleks and consoleless T.A.R.D.I.S. invented by a human namby-pamby named Who, never f***ing happened. 
Yeah, ok, maybe I was thrilled to unexpectedly see an ACTUAL DOCTOR WHO MOVIE on TV in the mid 1980s, but what of it?
Yeah, ok, maybe I was thrilled to unexpectedly see an ACTUAL DOCTOR WHO MOVIE on TV in the mid 1980s, but what of it?
Wow, I'm sorry she did that to you, but, I don't think Yates will.
IMHO, of course.
Here's a fun speculative list of potential actors who could play the lead.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...ld-lead-a-david-yates-helmed-doctor-who-movie
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...ld-lead-a-david-yates-helmed-doctor-who-movie
I'm surprised the article didnt mention that Andrew Garfields already been in Doctor Who.
Maybe Robert Carlyle will get another chance to play the Doctor.
