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  • #11376
    hummingbird
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    Oh god, this is so depressing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15730665

    “Russell T Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside and start from scratch,” he said.
    WTF? What the hell does “start from scratch” mean? You going to go back to 1963 and scrap everything that’s happened since? You utter, utter wanker.

    #113292
    Dave
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    If it relaunches Peter Cushing’s career then I’m all in favour. He’s been very quiet of late…

    #113293
    si
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    The thing is, ‘starting from scratch’, which basically means taking the basic concept of ‘alien travels through time and space’ means that, for an initial feature film, between a third and half of the movie needs to be either backstory or some other kind of set-up. After all, if this isn’t The Doctor we know, we need to know why we should invest our time or form any kind of attachment to the character.
    Then there’s the TARDIS: in the show, because of when/how it started, there’s a reason the TARDIS looks like it does, and so we, as an audience, know and love this Blue Box. But in starting from scratch, there is absolutely no need for it to be a Police Box. It might do it’s actual job, and change every time it lands, or it might be invisible. Then again, it might be a huge spaceship that makes no attempt to blend in with it’s surroundings…
    I think it’s the fact that they only want to take the basic idea and change so much that bothers me. If they were just making a Doctor Who film, but not connecting it to the series, using different actors, then I’d say fine. Whatever. It’s gonna be at least three years before it gets made, anyway, and I’ll be surprised if anything of note actually happens.
    Why not make it animated? Motion capture? Make the Doctor something other than Humanoid? You start with a time travelling alien, you can take that thought anywhere.

    #113294
    hummingbird
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    And it’s tha fact that they say he did Harry Potter and that was British so it must be OK. The point, surely, is that HP was new and didn’t have 50 years of history behind it. You can’t just fuck around with that.

    WTF are the BBC thinking?

    #113295

    This is indeed depressing. I choose to ignore this film and hope that it gets as little attention as possible.

    #113296
    JamesTC
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    If it is good, it will get more people watching the show

    If it is shit then it will fade into obscurity and have no effect on the show.

    Why would anybody be against this? If you really don’t like the idea then it isn’t going to effect the TV series and it is easy to avoid.

    Though I don’t think it will happen, they’ve been trying to make a Doctor Who film since 1986.

    #113297
    Tarka Dal
    Participant

    I’m a a little perturbed by it. Purely because having two ‘current’ incarnations of The Doctor at any one point feels a little awkward.

    In terms of reasoning I’m yet to see a genuinely really good reason NOT to make it.

    p.s Alan Rickman.

    #113299
    si
    Participant

    There are also murmurings of a Lego movie.I think they should have a Lego Doctor Who movie. The regenerations would be amazing.

    #113300
    thomasaevans
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    This is a terrible idea. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.

    I hope this Is some kind of mis-quote, or that restrictions on this ‘reboot’ have now been imposed.

    #113302
    si
    Participant

    Well, this is the original piece from Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118046098

    I like the BBC being called a “pubcaster”. I’ve never heard that word before. It amuses me.

    #113303
    Alex
    Participant

    Tweet from Moffat:

    Announcing my personal moonshot, starting from scratch. No money, no plan, no help from NASA. But I know where the moon is – I’ve seen it.

    I really don’t see it happening to be honest so i’m not that worried about it. Hardly the first time a director has been brought in to start work on something that goes nowhere just because the studio have an option on it.

    #113305
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Completely lame. RTD and Moffat cultivate an enthusiastic fanbase, and someone else comes along, takes a look at that fanbase and thinks “Hmm, that’s a ready made audience ready to give me money by trading on that name”. Almost as irritating as the proposed Buffy movie.

    #113310
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    I’m still sceptical about this being anything more than Yates talking entirely out of turn.

    #113314
    Tarka Dal
    Participant

    Yeah, it’s not like movie people ever do that.

    To be fair to Yates do we know if he approached the BBC or if the beeb approached him?

    Question, if you were a writer, producer or director approached to make a Doctor Who feature would you say ‘Na, because there’s already a TV show’ ?

    #113316
    ori-STUDFARM
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    #113318
    pfm
    Participant

    The only problem I have with this is David Yates. Prepare for a soulless, unadventurous, sterile, nonsensical Doctor Who film with plenty of on-rails action plus the odd flash of CGI.

    Seriously, the guy STILL doesn’t have a clue about pace, story/dramatic beats, conveying the right emotions at the right time etc.

    #113321
    Ridley
    Participant

    Yates and Tranter though.

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