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[jamestyler]

Financially the movie makes sense - Doctor Who is popular, Tennant is popular. Add that together, make a movie and make some pennies. Whether it's a big screen thing or a straight to DVD release you know you'll make money.

But yeah.. agreed that it's not essential. If it turns out it's going ahead and not a mistake or an idea still being thrown around or whatever, I don't know whether to look forward to it or not.

Already my heads thinking one Doctor, a million Daleks and an American sidekick with an amazing rack. Actually.. the last part might be alright...

 

[wamdue]

Why not throw in all of the still living Doctors and Matt Smith? They could write in an explanation for the older ones looking so bad -- like the Doctor has been poisoned and is aging backwards. But if there was any occasion that could warrant/handle a multi-Doctor story of those proportions I figure it'd be a movie.

hang on a minute, just a damm cotton picking minute, thats fanwank, you cant have a movie based on fanwank, did we learn nothing from Star Trek?

 

[Mr Awe]

This could work! That is, if just wasn't a mistake on the website. I don't think it would detract from Smith either. I do worry about RTD with an even larger budget!

Mr Awe

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

Oh, I know it's fan-wanky, but that's about the only way I could see RTD making a bigger spectacle-story than "The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End." Unless he like used honest story-telling devices about the Doctor, time travel, and being human stuff.

Also, I'm a little surprised at all of the requests for an American companion; you've got to respect the ladies of your own country a little more. In the state's the British accent is considered sexy so all you really need is a sufficiently hot British girl showing lots of skin...unless it's more of that exotic = hot thing. In which case I humbly request she still use Brit terminology 'cause it makes me giggle.

(I used two winking smilies today -- I must be extra cheeky or something.)

 

[captcalhoun]

i think the 'American companion' is more a reaction to 'oh, it's going to be all Hollywod, so he needs a US companion' school of thought than dissing British talent.

 

[wamdue]

i think the 'American companion' is more a reaction to 'oh, it's going to be all Hollywod, so he needs a US companion' school of thought than dissing British talent.

that was my thinking to

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

 

[StCoop]

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

It's always fun coming onto the Internet; the only place where RTD apparently isn't responsible not just for one of the most successful British TV series in years but also for writing ALL of the most popular and successful episodes of said series.

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Anyway, coming in to work this morning I remembered a bit of news that cropped up a couple of months back and which was so strange and out of left field that it didn't get much attention at the time. It was that Stephen Hopkins* would be directing Doctor Who. which didn't make a lot of sense when applied to the TV series but a film on the other hand...


* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394280/

 

[Starkers]

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

It's always fun coming onto the Internet; the only place where RTD apparently isn't responsible not just for one of the most successful British TV series in years but also for writing ALL of the most popular and successful episodes of said series.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394280/

ALL of the most popular and succesful episodes of the series? That'll explain all the HUGOs he has then, right? Oh no that's Moffat!

RTD has written some great episodes of Who (Midnight, Utopia), probably hasn't really written a complete stinker (aside from New Earth and Last of the Timelords) but has written a lot of episodes that were enjoyable but could of and should have been better.

Re American actresses as companions...personally I'd prefer a British or Austrailian actress and given RTD's connections I'd suggest the following are at least possible...

Kate Winslet (fantastic would love to see her in Who)
Rose Byrne (ditto)
Catherine Zeta Jones (I'd be ok with this at least)

 

[StCoop]

ALL of the most popular and succesful episodes of the series? That'll explain all the HUGOs he has then, right? Oh no that's Moffat!

Who gives a shit about Hugos? How many of the 11 million people who watched "Journey's End" (for example) have ever heard of the Hugos?

By every objective measuring standard; Ratings, Audience Share, Chart Position and Audience Appreciation Index figures Davies episodes of DW are the most popular and successful. The fact that a handful of people on the Internet might not agree doesn't change this realitly.

 

[Starkers]

ALL of the most popular and succesful episodes of the series? That'll explain all the HUGOs he has then, right? Oh no that's Moffat!

Who gives a shit about Hugos? How many of the 11 million people who watched "Journey's End" (for example) have ever heard of the Hugos?

By every objective measuring standard; Ratings, Audience Share, Chart Position and Audience Appreciation Index figures Davies episodes of DW are the most popular and successful. The fact that a handful of people on the Internet might not agree doesn't change this realitly.

If you can provide a link to these facts that clearly shows every single episode that RTD wrote scored higher than every single episode he didn't then I'll happily concede the point...

 

[jamestyler]

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

RTD crashed twitter for a few hours by tweeting himself. I don't know how the BBC can allow him near a computer long enough to write a decent script after that. It's risky putting him at the helm of a bigger budget part of their beloved Who.

 

[Starkers]

How'd he crash Twitter?

 

[Jim Steele]

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

It's always fun coming onto the Internet; the only place where RTD apparently isn't responsible not just for one of the most successful British TV series in years

I agree completely, and often mention this fact when I whinge about an episode of his. The man has, overall, done a fantastic job - but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop viewing his stuff objectively.

but also for writing ALL of the most popular and successful episodes of said series.

Got links? I find this difficult to believe. The very fact that he didn't write Blink immediately disproves your assertion from where I'm standing.

(well... supplant the word "most" for "ALL" and I'd have to agree)

 

[Bob The Skutter]

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

RTD crashed twitter for a few hours by tweeting himself. I don't know how the BBC can allow him near a computer long enough to write a decent script after that. It's risky putting him at the helm of a bigger budget part of their beloved Who.

Next you'll be telling us he was responsible for the google "traffic jam" the other day by googling google.

 

[StCoop]

If you can provide a link to these facts that clearly shows every single episode that RTD wrote scored higher than every single episode he didn't then I'll happily concede the point...

That's not what I said. I said all of the most popular episodes of the series have all been written by him. And you'll be amazed to discover I don't walk around with the complete list on me at all times. You're free to look the figures up for yourself and prove me wrong though.

Let me start you off. Here's the Chart Positions list.

Top 5 New Series episodes - RTD (Only Moffat entry down the bottom.)

And here's the S4 Ratings/AI breakdown.

Most watched episodes - RTD
Highest AI - RTD

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Re American actresses as companions...

The question is what the BBC's goals are. Are they planning just a one-off film? Or are they hoping to launch a film franchise? If it's a one-off film, they're probably not expecting a great return in the States, so they might feel free to match the unknown Tennant with any actress. If they want a film franchise, they need to match the unknown Tennant with a "name" actress for the audience draw. That may also mean going American.

(Look, we know who David Tennant is. But the average filmgoer in Bumpkins, Idaho isn't going to know David Tennant from David Ortiz. Hence, my qualification of "unknown" before his name.)

Anne Hathaway, suggested above in the thread, would be interesting. I don't know if she would be interested in the film, but she might work.

Hell, this could even work as Lindsay Lohan's image rehab project. (I kid! I kid!)

personally I'd prefer a British or Austrailian actress and given RTD's connections I'd suggest the following are at least possible...

Kate Winslet (fantastic would love to see her in Who)
Rose Byrne (ditto)
Catherine Zeta Jones (I'd be ok with this at least)

Rachel Weisz. I don't know if she would do it now, but at one point in her career she would have. She is a fan. And she would be awesome.

 

[wamdue]

actually im not sure RTDs should be making the movie, I fear he just does not have it in him.

It's always fun coming onto the Internet; the only place where RTD apparently isn't responsible not just for one of the most successful British TV series in years but also for writing ALL of the most popular and successful episodes of said series.

it is true he has done that, but I Planet of the Dead was kinda bland, and there wasnt that much new about it, im just worried he might write a movie we have already seen on TV.

 

[Timby]

StCoop, you're making a fallacious argument by suggesting that because Davies' episodes are the most popular, that means they're the best. Monsters vs. Aliens is currently the highest-grossing movie of 2009 in the United States, but that doesn't mean it's better than The Soloist.

I've said it fifty times before on this board: Yes, Russell T. Davies is responsible for reviving a classic TV series, and doing so in a wonderful fashion. The quality of what we've seen since 2005 is, by and large, light-years beyond what we would have gotten had the 1996 telemovie led to a new series. But that doesn't absolve Davies from being criticized for his many, many examples of awful writing.

 

[Jim Steele]

StCoop, you're making a fallacious argument by suggesting that because Davies' episodes are the most popular, that means they're the best. Monsters vs. Aliens is currently the highest-grossing movie of 2009 in the United States, but that doesn't mean it's better than The Soloist.

I've said it fifty times before on this board: Yes, Russell T. Davies is responsible for reviving a classic TV series, and doing so in a wonderful fashion. The quality of what we've seen since 2005 is, by and large, light-years beyond what we would have gotten had the 1996 telemovie led to a new series. But that doesn't absolve Davies from being criticized for his many, many examples of awful writing.

Exactly. Ratings and AA indexes shouldn't mean jack shit to anyone, unless we're going to start holding Westlife in the same regard as The Beatles.

 

[Bacl]

Who gives a shit about Hugos? How many of the 11 million people who watched "Journey's End" (for example) have ever heard of the Hugos?

How many of the 40 million people who watch American Idol have ever heard of Doctor Who?