What would mean that?
David (Harry Potter) Yates to direct Doctor Who The Movie!
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What would mean that?
I assume he means if they make a movie with the existing cast and team it would mean they would have to halt production on Doctor Who itself. Though this isn't necessarily true.
Partially right. There was a time war in the BBC Books Eighth Doctor line, but RTD had nothing to do with it. RTD did write a novel for Virgin's New Adventures line, but it had nothing to do with a time war and was very Earth-centred and seemed more like a storyline Torchwood would have done than Doctor Who.
Read the plot description for yourself here.
If there was a film produced by the television show production team and starring the television Doctor it would undoubtedly mean a break in the production of the show, since it's effectively in production all year round and filming for nine months a year.
Personally, I think Moffat's just pissed off that a movie being under serious development over the next couple of years might distract attention from his plans for the fiftieth anniversary.
As I said it wouldn't necessarily be true. I mean it's undoubtedly going to have a different director (David Yates) from the usual team, and directors on movies over see much more in films than on TV shows. It would have other producers (Jane Tranter and the BBC Worldwide lot) and 6-12 weeks of filming would give them a lot of time to do principle photography with Matt Smith, and that causes no disruption whatsoever to the TV series.
Leaving aside the fact that Matt Smith won't be the Doctor three years from now; you're asking whoever it is who gets the job after him to essentially work for 21 months (9+3+9) without a break.
I'm not asking anyone to do anything, I don't give a shit about the film, or how it plays out in the continuation of the series. I'm just saying you don't necessarily have to disrupt the making of the show to make a film as well and have it with the same cast and mostly the same crew. The X-Files did it.
By reducing the number of episodes in Season 5 to cover the shooting time and paying its stars far far more than the BBC can to make it worth their while.
So that doesn't equal putting the show on hold for years. But as I said, I don't really give a shit either way.
Given that Private Eye has reported that the BBC higher-ups consider Moffat a "problem," I have no difficulty believing that Moffat would go off-message.
Except that the BBC Charter would prohibit a direct continuity link between a free television series and a paid-admission movie.
And even if the BBC Charter did allow that, why would Worldwide make a film with a necessarily limited audience because of its continuity links?
^It prohibits making it something you have to see in order to understand what's going on in the series. Wouldn't prohibit if they did it in continuity but it was just stand alone.
This is of course assuming that Private Eye are actually right about the higher ups considering Moffat a problem. And even if he is, one suspsects the higher ups consider that an acceptable tradeoff considering he delivers critically and commercially succesful products (Who, Sherlock, Coupling etc etc)
Yeah, there have been stand along straight to DVD Eastenders 'films' before now after all.
Moffat, really, appears to be trying to get himself fired, by going against his bosses...
They wouldn't do that...would they?
they would, but I don't think Yates or Moffat would, and both of them have issued direct statements...
Didn't Yates directly say the Doctor would be played by a different actor then the TV Series (Or wouldn't be played by the Current TV Actor?)? (I'm asking, because I think he did, but, that may be me misremembering or poorly interpretting).
I suppose, if the time the release of the film, to be shortly after the TV Regeneration into the next Doctor, the could film the Movie with the next Doctor in a stand alone story, and hold the movie back until the TV show catches up. That would likely be the least interferring with the Television Production.
