Doctor Who...the 'start from scratch' film reboot

Well then.

As As Ewing said:

Apparently Dr Who needs a 'radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena' of movie films. I hear the bark of Poochie.

I hate how David Yates directed the Harry Potter films, and he should be put in stocks for his comments about Doctor Who.

I wish there was an Inspector Spacetime movie instead.

Btw I am not at all joking about the stocks comment.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo175PeR21qj4vxd.gif

yeah this is dumb.

I think I sprained my eyes, they rolled so hard

My hate for David Yates was totally justified.

luckily this will never happen. hollywood will never finance a Doctor Who movie imo and the british don't really make movies anymore, so we're probably safe.

Hollywood made an Incredible Hulk movie TWICE. Don't put anything past them.

Hulk has brand name recognition in the US though while Doctor Who doesn't really. Does Yates have enough pull to get a pet project like that greenlit? I don't really know but I kind of doubt it. His only successes are the Potter movies and I'm sure hollywood doesn't give him any credit for that.

And they shouldn't.

I'm not really opposed to a reboot though because I'd like to see all of that stupid last timelord bullshit done away with. Doctor Who really needs to be a tv show though. I can't see it working as a movie.

Lots and lots of rumours last year (or might have been the year before) from an ILX0R who may be involved with an agency suggesting Rusty had definitely sold a film. I might also have read things to this end.

I fucking hate everything at this point.

but if that's true then this new story can't be true, right?

Jane Tranter is just a beard, I presume. She does share a house with Rusty in LA. Allegedly.

Anyway, this is now being reported as fact by none other than the BBC so I would guess this happening without any doubt.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/harry-potter-director-developing-allnew-doctor-who,65124/

Yates says he’s looking at new writers who can draw familiar elements from the long-running series but create their own reimagining, not unlike Bryan Singer’s recently stated goal to start all over again on Battlestar Galactica, despite there being a perfectly fine reinvention from just a few years ago. Fortunately, just as with Battlestar Galactica, fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive, so they’ll probably be cool with just whatever he wants to do, just as long as there's some scarves and robots in there.

this is amazingly straight-faced

fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive
fans of Doctor Who aren’t really known for being obsessive

lol @ scarves & robots

Anyway, this is now being reported as fact by none other than the BBC so I would guess this happening without any doubt.

"this is happening" = yates is going to start developing a doctor who movie. that doesn't mean it will necessarily ever start shooting.

it all kind of hinges on what actors he can get involved, doesn't it? the bbc certainly isn't going to sell a doctor who movie to hollywood just on the strength of "it's doctor who!", let alone "david yates is attached to direct".

You might be missing Jane Tranter's connections.

doctor whos rubbish

lolll @ the straight-facedness

doctor who is such a perfect story for the medium of tv, i'm annoyed enough by the $arrogance$ of feature film alone right now

come to think of it I would welcome a big hollywood Doctor Who franchise if it means that I someday get to play a Lego Doctor Who video game.

You might be missing Jane Tranter's connections.

yeah I am. what are they?

Jane Tranter was BBC Head of Commissioning when Rusty got hired and is current Executive VP of BBC Worldwide. If she says she's sold it on, which she seems to have, and the BBC confirm it, then it's been sold on.

Plus next year is wound down on output because (allegedly) of drop in BBC profits on NuWho so if we then went 2013 and 2014 broadcasting with 2014 off for the film it wouldn't seem so odd.

Jane Tranter was BBC Head of Commissioning when Rusty got hired and is current Executive VP of BBC Worldwide. If she says she's sold it on, which she seems to have, and the BBC confirm it, then it's been sold on.

I think we're operating on two different sets of assumptions here. I interpreted the article as meaning that they actually want to develop Who into a feature film to be released theatrically, and I'm assuming that in order to do so the BBC would have to seek outside funding. In which case all they have going for them is a TV producer, a TV director who lucked into a Harry Potter job but doesn't have any real box office track record, and a property that's only a household name in the UK.

But if the BBC is actually financing this thing entirely themselves then you might be right and Tranter saying she's doing it is as good as it being done. Or I may have entirely misunderstood and they're just talking about a TV movie?

A BBC spokesman said: "A Doctor Who feature film remains in development with BBC Worldwide Productions in Los Angeles.

So that sounds like the BBC are financing it and will just look for a distributor.

There are still so many unanswered questions though. Do they mean a feature film to be broadcast on television? Or for theatrical release? Can BBC actually afford to finance a feature film suitable for theatrical release? The closest comparison might be something like Hitchhiker's Guide which cost $50 million six years ago (and incidentally flopped despite being a much bigger property than Doctor Who).

Maybe they can actually afford that kind of budget, I honestly have no idea. But at this point all that "in development" means is that they're going to hire somebody to write a script.

wait, is Hitchhiker's Guide actually a bigger property than Doctor Who?

Maybe not. It feels like the books were a much bigger deal in the US than Doctor Who ever was, but Who is probably bigger in the UK, right?

May this never happen

Hate the assumption that movies are somehow BETTER than any other form of something, especially given the ample evidence that this is so much shit

So that sounds like the BBC are financing it and will just look for a distributor.

it doesn't sound like anything of the sort, wk otm

hmm...

Doctor Who...the 'start from scratch' film reboot
old to semi-old celebrities you would travel back in time to have lots of sex with.

Anyway, whoever ends up in this has big shoes to step into:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a9V8a7WTTz0/TTMwt0zx12I/AAAAAAAABos/lHVMh-KjsAQ/s1600/Cushing.jpg

I'm holding out for an animated Roy Castle.

Dedication, dedication
Dedication, that's what you need
If you wanna be the best
If you wanna beat the rest
Oh-oh dedication's what you need

There were a lot of hammer horror films with Peter Cushing on TCM this Halloween, it was a treat.

http://www.petercushing.co.uk/whittribute.jpg

AAAARRRGGH.

i know people don't want an origin story but whatever happened to the doctor prior to an unearthly child, where his granddaughter came from, etc, is still an interesting mystery (note: I'm still only in season 3 of the new series so maybe some of this has been cleared up since I dunno)

by and large the new series goes nowhere near this; they explore some of it in the Virgin and BBC books (particularly Lungbarrow)

I still want to kick David Yates in the shins -- thought I would be less annoyed over this by today, but nope.

oh also the TV movie claimed that the Doctor's mother was human but a lot of people like to ignore that because it was stupid

that's incredibly stupid. I think I blocked out that bit of trauma.

yeah they should ignore that. but, presumably the doctor had a pretty lengthy and rich life prior to the unearthly child. it's certainly the oldest he ever was in a regeneration. so there are years and years of things they could explore in that, also, it keeps you from ever having to deal with daleks or cybermen or anything. on the other hand, it just might seem really generic and detached from the history.

there's a segment of fandom that argues the the Doctor was born looking like an old man, just fyi

Wha...?

Um.

okay full-on belly lols at that, I mean it's not like most of those names haven't been pushed around at one point or another but...

they didn't even save the massive lol until the end

That was definitely the punchline.

btw I fully endorse Idris Elba or Johnny Depp

(did you see this year's South Park Thanksgiving episode? that made the punchline even better IMO due to said punchline's prominent part in the episode)

Wait you forgot a third candidate.

"DJP

You Might Know Him From: ILX, WoW, Boston Pops cameos

If we're thinking out of the box, someone who can comfortably reference every last bit of Who-related continuity issues, sing a vocal version of the theme song for maximum marketing (especially given the already confirmed Skrillex remix) and otherwise actually seem like he's controlling the TARDIS every step of the way is a lock. Also, he's rumored to have been lobbying for Rosario Dawson as his companion."

no one is going to watch a Doctor Who movie where the Doctor spends the whole time chasing his companion through TARDIS corridors shouting "GIMME KISSES"

Minor details. Besides, imagine how you could redesign K-9.

dunno anything about this but if they make dr who into a hollywood film they'll prob use that russell brand dude

oh god

Benedict Cumberbatch would be a great Doctor.

dunno anything about this but if they make dr who into a hollywood film they'll prob use that russell brand dude

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Forgetting Sarah Jane

Get Him to Ancient Greece

Adric

"When you blow up between the moon and New York City..."

idris elba would be great if they wanted a black doctor, he has a gravity and seriousness that has been unseen in the doctor since hartnell, frankly.

eccelstone would be great if they could backfill that doctor's story, I assume he would never do it and they wouldn't want to do this either.

feel like shia leboeuf could bring a lot to the role

Ecclestone's Doctor leaned very heavily towards Hartnell IMO

Hugh Laurie, just putting it out there

Has Idris Elba actually been good in anything since The Wire?

i really know nothing about dr. who but i kinda support this just for the eventual internet-wide apoplexy.

Has Idris Elba actually been good in anything since The Wire?

people love Luther

Yeah, Ecclestone was a bit Hartnell + Tom Baker, Tennant a bit Peter Davison, Smith is a bit Troughton (esp in the body language, which he really nails)

Gene Hackman out of retirement