Depp is talented and popular. What would he want with Doctor Who?
Yeah, this rumor sounds off-kilter. Depp would agree to a movie that isn't based on a high-profile property if it were something he happened to be a fan of - like
Dark Shadows - but I've never heard that he's a fan of
Doctor Who.
Russell Davies is sniffing after the big Hollywood money but he needs to understand that
Doctor Who will never have the broad global cultural appeal that is required for a "Hollywood blockbuster." It's really just too culturally specific to ever be another
Star Trek or
Iron Man or
Avatar.
All the carping about the idea of a non-British actor playing the Doctor proves that. Actors are paid to act. What does their nationality have to do with anything? Only if the property is so narrowly defined that it can't be stretched into global blockbuster proportions, or even close. It should just stay small, and as it is. Everything doesn't have to be a big Hollywood blockbuster.