I don’t know what that bit I have highlighted means. But it concerns me. Deeply.




I hope they have learned the Torchwood Lesson. Never, ever let an American run the TARDIS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15730665

I misread that as "Bollywood" - an idea I think I prefer

If they have to make a Doctor Who film, then at least put it in the hands of someone who gets British SciFi. I would imagine a Bollywood Doctor Who would be entertaining and terrifying in equal measures.

Would it be too much for me to hope that the film is based on the time war?

I'm sure I've said this before but... they could get the seventh or eight doctor as the lead or... get the seventh doctor in at the start and either have him regenerate into the eight or maybe they could "change his face" maybe as some kind of undercover mission, which would allow a new actor to take over before regenerating into Ecclestone at the end of the film.

Just ideas off the top of my head, as discussed in the car this morning, with Mrs. V.

Whadda you guys think?

Firstly, Eccleston said he’d not return to his role as The Doctor. I doubt very much that we’d get a McGann/Eccleston Time War story. I would imagine that the plan would be to reboot from the start. An “origins” story. How you’d keep a film Doctor AND a TV series Doctor running in parallel is something that I don’t want to think about. I hope the TV series does not bow out in favour of the film.

Remember - this would be to introduce the character to a wider audience. Think “educating Americans”.

In reply to your points. I don't care what Ecclestone said... you wave a big enough cheque at the fella and he'll do it! lol
Do we really need to "educate the Americans? Doctor Who has been shown on BBC America for some time now, so they should be familiar with the show.

Question. If it is an "origins" type reboot how far back would it go?

Also, where's Mark when we need him!?

Familiar with the current incarnation. Yes, Doctor Who has a following stateside, but it’s not mainstream TV. It’s not, for sake of comparison, Star Trek. There will be a lot of people there who are bewildered by the back story and mythology. I can only hope that they find a writer who can handle it sympathetically for this task.



The Doctor stealing his TARDIS, kidnapping Susan and running from the Time Lords.

One idea I really like the idea of was to merge this story with Genisis of the Daleks. A bloody good story which really did make a dent in my personal universe. Tying the two tougher in an origins story would easily set up a trilogy. But I’m running away with myself.

The idea of a Hollywood film brings to mind the following bit of dialogue from one of the 1960s films:





Hiding from this in a Sarah Jane Smith Confined Space (TM).

I predict they wont
They will [LIFTED] it up quicker than a Greek economist.

The McGann/Eccleston time war thing is the only thing I actively WANT to see in a film. I'd also like to see more of McCoy's TARDIS, as it was beautiful.

However, I could be persuaded to part with money for an origin tale. Thing is, whichever way they slice it, they're gonna retcon something and completely [LIFTED] up the continuity. JJ nailed it with Trek, but he didn't need to respect an ongoing tv show. He also has a clue, unlike the vast majority of people who are likely to be involved in this.

It's probably gonna be another Wolverine. And because I'm me, I'm gonna have to pay money because I'm a fan, only to want to gouge my own eyes out with a spoon.

We may even find out what a TARDIS crash looks like as two Doctors from two realities collide.

This could get messy - as I said on Twitter.
The Star Wars universe is already messy enough, what with the official canon and then the unofficial one from the books, and I think that would be a good yardstick to go by with this.
Doctor Who, as it is, is already a big hit in the States on TV, so why mess with what already works?
I can understand them wanting to differentiate the film from the TV show so that it (the BBC) can keep both revenue streams going, but it would have to be very delicately done.
Ever since Christopher Eccleston ended his stint as The Doctor I've said that the only real film should first and foremost deal with the Time War, but if it intends to have the films and TV show concurrently then this wouldn't work, as it would take all the wind out of the longest plot arc that the TV show has.

Someone earlier mentioned the recent Star Trek reboot, and I'll take exception to that, because what they did was reinvent the films, which failed on almost all levels for me.
As a whiz-bang summer flick it was passable, but it has no soul. It's just another piece of Hollywood special effects heroic bravado, and I've no interest in seeing the second one at the pictures like I did the first.

This is the line the Who film producers will also have to tread, but I suspect they'll be looking at the Trek franchise with closer scrutiny than we (or I) like to think.
Think of it in the same way as The Doctor describes moments in time as being 'fixed'. Those fixed moments in time could also be applied to fixed moments in The Doctor's canon; certain things will have to be retained, all the rest can be jettisoned as desired.
Also, the new Trek film came out at a time when the TV show had been cancelled for four or five years. Okay, so this film isn't likely to hit our cinema screens for about four or five years, but at the moment the TV show shows no problems for continuing for that amount of time, so they could both be in the marketplace at the same time.
That'll be tough/clever/easy/disastrous to pull off.
If this film happens I hope it's something exceedingly super-fantastic, I really do.
I'd love to go to the pictures and watch it and come thinking that it was a totally awesome translation of the longest running science fiction TV show to the big screen. Nobody would be more happy than I would for that to happen.
It remains to be seen if that will actually happen though.

Don't screw it up, producers of the film.

Mark

An update:



However, and I find this bit a tad concerning:



http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/22533/ ... -shot-down
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.p ... issue=1302

You have to wonder what all this means - especially the bit about Moffat being “a problem”. Is he too much of a prima donna? Is his workload too great - there has been speculation that his work on Sherlock series 2 has caused the 2012 series of Doctor Who to be pushed back into the autumn. Rumours have started to circulate about a successor already - though I’m not sure if Moffat has finished with his Doctor’s long story arc yet.

All I'll say is that the last time the Americans went near Doctor Who (McGann) it didn't exactly turn out well so I can't say this fills me with great hope.

He's Irish is he not?

Yes, but his appearance as the doctor was in an American production in which the killed off Sylvester McCoy's doctor. It wasn't that great although I gather McGann's Doctor was rather more popular in audio episodes.