David Yates, director of the last four Harry Potter films, is tackling a big screen adaptation of Doctor Who and has the BBC on board. It won’t be the current TV series approach or star, though.
But don’t count on seeing Smith, or the recently popular Doctor David Tennant, on the big screen. Yates told Variety that the show “Needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena,” and that they won’t be adapting the current series but starting “from scratch.”
Because the last Dr. Who movie worked so well?
To be fair, I thought Paul McGann would be a fantastic Doctor.
Why can’t we have Smith or Tennant or both!!
Yates told Variety that the show “Needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena,” and that they won’t be adapting the current series but starting “from scratch.”
I’m calling it now. Emo Sparkle-Doctor Who.
The rumor mill/fan campaigning for which actors are up for the role of a movie Doctor will be months of entertainent in and of itself.
Will Eric Roberts return as The Master?
Okay, I’m calling it now: Michael Fassbinder as The Doctor, Hayley Atwell as his companion.
Yes please.
After Doctor Who went off the air in the 80s, the rumors of Spielberg’s Doctor Who were enough to keep us going for years.
The previous rumors and never-launched attempts at big screen adaptations were evemt enough to fill an entire book, The Nth Doctor.
Christopher Walken as the Doctor, directed by Tim Burton.
Ian McShane as the Doctor, directed by David Lynch.
Alan Rickman as the Doctor, directed by Peter Jackson.
Oh, good God yes. That woman makes me swoon.
I actually agree that a movie can’t just be an episode of the TV show. It needs to be something else entirely. It could work really well, and Hollywood’s modern adaptation record isn’t even too bad, but I’m still skeptical.
I’m not sure how well an out of canon adaptation would work for a currently running TV show.
For Doctor Who it shouldn’t be too bad. It already has a fairly loosey goosey canon. There’s the TV show, the radio plays, the novels, the spinoff TV shows and novels, a great deal of retconning in the main canon inherent to a decades long show with multiple production teams and casts, not to mention the time travel premise. And by definition, we don’t know vast swathes of the Doctor’s life.
People who don’t know Doctor Who won’t care, people who do know Doctor Who will roll with it.
I just worry if it’s financially successful what kind of impact will it have on the show going forward.
High budgets are fine, but I insist that it have daleks who shoot steam.
That’s just silly. If Burton is directing then Johnny Depp is the Doctor and Helena Bonham Carter is his companion.
Then we need to find another director for Walken.