David (Harry Potter) Yates to direct Doctor Who The Movie!

[Pseudo]

Actually, didn't Russell come to America to work with Trantor? Or was that just for Torchwood S4?

Last year his agency CV stated that he was working on a script for a Doctor Who movie. The credit quickly disappeared once it was noticed. So, I'd say that Russell wrote a script to shop around to get interest in the project. Now that Yates is on board he obviously wants to develop his own script.

If RTD did write a script for a BBC Worldwide Doctor Who movie, you can be assured that he didn't do it on spec (writers don't work on spec in Hollywood) Whatever he was paid will be applied to the development costs of Yates' film. (This is why Superman Returns had an astronomical budget; the film absorbed the costs of a decade's worth of false starts.) Assuming a treatment and first draft, RTD would have been paid between (roughly) 50k and 90k for a script that won't be used.

I'm not suggesting that he wrote it on spec. I'm suggesting that it was written for Tranter and BBC Worldwide with the sole purpose of using it to give prospective production partners some idea of what would be possible with adapting the format in to a movie.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Last year his agency CV stated that he was working on a script for a Doctor Who movie. The credit quickly disappeared once it was noticed. So, I'd say that Russell wrote a script to shop around to get interest in the project. Now that Yates is on board he obviously wants to develop his own script.

If RTD did write a script for a BBC Worldwide Doctor Who movie, you can be assured that he didn't do it on spec (writers don't work on spec in Hollywood) Whatever he was paid will be applied to the development costs of Yates' film. (This is why Superman Returns had an astronomical budget; the film absorbed the costs of a decade's worth of false starts.) Assuming a treatment and first draft, RTD would have been paid between (roughly) 50k and 90k for a script that won't be used.

I'm not suggesting that he wrote it on spec. I'm suggesting that it was written for Tranter and BBC Worldwide with the sole purpose of using it to give prospective production partners some idea of what would be possible with adapting the format in to a movie.

I didn't mean to imply that you suggested that RTD wrote it on spec. Instead, I was pointing out that if RTD wrote a script, he would have been paid for it, which means there is a production office in LA that's incurring costs.

Since people doubt that there's anything more than a director saying that he's developing a film, I thought it's important to note that, no, given the way the Hollywood game works there's money being spent -- and that's not insignificant.

Movies that don't get made still count toward the production budget, after all, and if the BBC wants a movie made on a budget, they're not going to want too many false starts.

 

[CaptainMatt]

So who thinks Daleks should be in the film? I think Daleks should be in it.

 

[Psion]

I understand the Cyberleader was quoted in Variety as having an assured presence in the Doctor Who movie.

Personally, I think he was just boasting.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Are you trying to be funny?

 

[Psion]

I never try.

 

[CaptainMatt]

If the Cybermen are in the movie, please let them be the original series Cybermen and not the ones from the new series, which all seem to hail from Pete Tyler's alternate Earth.

 

[Starkers]

Cybermen, Daleks, even Weeping Angels, any existing monster used in a future film would likely undergo a significant redesign, take the Borg between TNG and First Contact.

 

[The Wormhole]

If the Cybermen are in the movie, please let them be the original series Cybermen and not the ones from the new series, which all seem to hail from Pete Tyler's alternate Earth.

The Cybermen seen in A Good Man Goes to War and Closing Time are in fact from our reality. They just resemble Pete Tyler's Cybermen though without the Cybus Indsutries logo on their chest.

 

[23skidoo]

The Cybermen seen in A Good Man Goes to War and Closing Time are in fact from our reality. They just resemble Pete Tyler's Cybermen though without the Cybus Indsutries logo on their chest.

Also possibly the Cyberman in The Pandorica Opens, too. It either means they assimilated some Cybus Cybermen or they'd always developed that way and just parallelled the other guys. Remember except for a head we haven't properly seen a Cyberman since 1988.

So who thinks Daleks should be in the film? I think Daleks should be in it.

If it's a remake, it's almost guaranteed. When the 1996 movie was in pre-production they toyed with having a new Dalek with spider-like legs running about. Yeah, just as well we only heard their voices.

But I mean, if they're going to scrap a half-century of franchise history, why shouldn't they change the show's iconic monsters, too?

Alex

 

[The Wormhole]

The Cybermen seen in A Good Man Goes to War and Closing Time are in fact from our reality. They just resemble Pete Tyler's Cybermen though without the Cybus Indsutries logo on their chest.

Also possibly the Cyberman in The Pandorica Opens, too. It either means they assimilated some Cybus Cybermen or they'd always developed that way and just parallelled the other guys. Remember except for a head we haven't properly seen a Cyberman since 1988.

I assume the Cybermen from The Pandorica Opens were from Pete Tyler's world. They had the Cybus logo on their chests and were concerned about the threat posed to other universes.

 

[Butters]

The Cybermen seen in A Good Man Goes to War and Closing Time are in fact from our reality. They just resemble Pete Tyler's Cybermen though without the Cybus Indsutries logo on their chest.

Also possibly the Cyberman in The Pandorica Opens, too. It either means they assimilated some Cybus Cybermen or they'd always developed that way and just parallelled the other guys. Remember except for a head we haven't properly seen a Cyberman since 1988.

I assume the Cybermen from The Pandorica Opens were from Pete Tyler's world. They had the Cybus logo on their chests and were considered about the threat posed to other universes.

There is nothing on screen to suggest that the cybermen encountered by Doc 11 were not of Cybus origin.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The Cybermen we saw in series six were not Cybus Industries models, they were our realities as indicated by The Wormhole.

I suspect that this movie actually happens and isn't just talk, that we would get some kind of redesigned Dalek specific to the film or Cybermen. Or maybe even the Master. Who knows. It's really too early to discuss this type of thing IMO.

 

[Saul]

If there is one film then you can expect 3 films and if that is the case they'd probably save the Daleks for the sequel.

 

[Lonemagpie]

There is nothing on screen to suggest that the cybermen encountered by Doc 11 were not of Cybus origin.

Apart from the massive big spaceships they came in, and the fact that they'd been hanging around Stonehenge for about a couple of thousand years before Cybus existed?

 

[captcalhoun]

they fell out of the rift and have been hanging around ever since.

 

[Saul]

Just had a wild thought. What about Cumberbatch as the Movie Doctor? He has hinted at wanting to play the role yet seems like he wouldn't want to do a series. With his movie career taking off this might be the way to see him to do the role.

 

[captcalhoun]

he said he's not interested in having his face plastered across lunch-boxes, not that he doesn't want to do a TV series. it's the merchandising not the length of the role.

 

[Psion]

he said he's not interested in having his face plastered across lunch-boxes, not that he doesn't want to do a TV series. it's the merchandising not the length of the role.

And then he signed up to play

Spoiler: ssshhhh!

Khan

on Star Trek.

 

[captcalhoun]

i call BS on that.