Suppose I give you a hundred million simoleons with which you are to produce a blockbuster Doctor Who movie. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to produce an absolutely jaw-dropping, super-awesome Doctor Who movie, 2 hours of clever, ass-kicking fun. You are not held to any specific continuity with the TV serieses if you don’t want to be; you want to present an awesome Doctor Who experience to the uninitiated viewer.
Who plays Doctor Who?
Which sidekicks do you have? Who plays them?
Who’s the antagonist? Who plays him/her?
Are there Daleks? If so, how would you make them awesome and scary?
With my limited Dr. Who experience, I still find the concept of a big-budget, jaw-dropping, awesome Dr. Who production to be totally antithetical to the very charm of the series. It’s like comparing the big-budget CGI/animated model Matthew Broderick-starring film misnamed GODZILLA with the Japanese man-in-a-rubber-suit productions which are true GODZILLA films.
A dashingly handsome Dr. & mega-hot-babe Companion in a super-sleek TARDIS
battling CGI Wetta-studio-quality Daleks loses out when compared to a goofy floppy-hatted, scarf-wearing bloke & cute-attainable-chick in a tricked-out phone-booth battling enlarged plastic Salt & Pepper Shaker-Daleks.
agreed, part of the charm of TOS Dr. Who was it’s low-budget cheesiness, not Star Trek TOS Styrofoam boulders level cheese, mind you, but still low-budget cheese
however, playing along with the rules in the OP;
choose one from each of the following group;
The Doctor; Craig Charles, James Earl Jones, Adrian Edmonton, Alexi Sayle, Anthony Simcoe
The Master; Wayne Pygram
The Doctor’s female travelling companions; Claudia Black, Gigi Edgely, Nichelle Nichols, Virginia Hey, Grace Park, Marina Sirtis, Roxanna Biggs-Dawson, Kandyse McLure,
personally, i’d prefer the combos of;
Craig Charles and Gigi Edgely
Anthony Simcoe and Roxanna Biggs-Dawson
James Earl Jones and Virginia Hey