Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Doctor Who movie Search for: This topic has 16 replies, 13 voices, and was last updated 13 years ago by Ridley. Scroll to bottom Viewing 17 posts - 1 through 17 (of 17 total) Author Posts November 16, 2011 at 7:36 am #11376 hummingbirdParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 8:08 am #113292 DaveParticipant If it relaunches Peter Cushing’s career then I’m all in favour. He’s been very quiet of late… November 16, 2011 at 8:58 am #113293 siParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 9:36 am #113294 hummingbirdParticipant 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? November 16, 2011 at 9:58 am #113295 genericnerdyusernameParticipant This is indeed depressing. I choose to ignore this film and hope that it gets as little attention as possible. November 16, 2011 at 10:57 am #113296 JamesTCParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 11:25 am #113297 Tarka DalParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 11:48 am #113299 siParticipant There are also murmurings of a Lego movie.I think they should have a Lego Doctor Who movie. The regenerations would be amazing. November 16, 2011 at 11:54 am #113300 thomasaevansParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 12:34 pm #113302 siParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 12:44 pm #113303 AlexParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 1:19 pm #113305 Pete Part ThreeParticipant 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. November 16, 2011 at 1:59 pm #113310 Seb PatrickKeymaster I’m still sceptical about this being anything more than Yates talking entirely out of turn. November 16, 2011 at 5:30 pm #113314 Tarka DalParticipant 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’ ? November 16, 2011 at 8:42 pm #113316 ori-STUDFARMParticipant http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-&-entertainment/danny-dyer-to-star-as-dr-who-201111164546/ November 16, 2011 at 11:02 pm #113318 pfmParticipant 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. November 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm #113321 RidleyParticipant Yates and Tranter though. Author Posts Viewing 17 posts - 1 through 17 (of 17 total) Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In