# Cast & Write a Major Hollywood Production of "Doctor Who"

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**Created:** [March 18, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-write-a-major-hollywood-production-of-doctor-who/348859 "2006-03-18T02:12:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-write-a-major-hollywood-production-of-doctor-who/348859/1 "2006-03-18T02:12:03Z")

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Inspired by the Dr. Who series thread…

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?
- Do you have a basic plot outline you could share?
- Who would direct?

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-write-a-major-hollywood-production-of-doctor-who/348859/2 "2006-03-18T07:38:19Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-write-a-major-hollywood-production-of-doctor-who/348859/3 "2006-03-18T15:56:24Z")

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For some reason, it occurs to me that Tommy Lee Jones could do a good Doctor.

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-write-a-major-hollywood-production-of-doctor-who/348859/4 "2006-03-18T18:23:25Z")

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> [@FriarTed](#):
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> 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.
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> 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