The web-site Den of Geek reports that it’s it might happen. It looks as if it’s being floated as a possible replacement franchise for the now finished “Harry Potter” series - because the world can’t go without a hyper-geeky British fantasy / sci-fi big-budget film series for long.
It looks to be a case similar to the two Peter Cushing films of the mid-60s though, not in line with TV continuity:
My advice to the Hollywood producers:Brace yourselves, steady your nerves, wait until you’ve digested all the food in your system (so that you won’t be compelled to vomit) and watch the mid-90s Fox TV movie. Observe the many ways in which they radically altered the series to make it (theoretically) more palatable to American audiences. Then, when making your new film, do exactly the opposite of what Fox did, and you may have something worth watching…
Exciting! Especially if it has no impact on the TV show. Hopefully the two can co-exist independently. And it sounds like they’re going the reboot / not in continuity route, which I think is a great idea. I’d love to see a totally new take on it.
I just hope they don’t do an “origin story” for the Doctor or try and fill in the Time Wars or anything like that. Just a new chance to see the adventures of a mysterious stranger having wild adventures in time and space.
Having two Doctors active in media at the same time is going to cause all KINDS of continuity snarls when they inevitably do a crossover with Movie-Doctor and TV-Doctor. (And don’t say it won’t happen, because it WILL.)
They need to be careful and not make it to big. Don’t try and make a huge movie with multimillion dollar effects. Stick with what makes the show work. Cheesy effects, silly tin can daleks etc.
Part of the reason I like the new series is the fact that they pay homage to the old. It really feels very wrong to me to discount the new series and have a completely different “Doctor.” Even the TV movie acknowledged the old show.
A Doctor who movie starring David Tennant or Matt Smith as the Doctor? Possibly good, depending on the story. A Doctor Who movie discounting 50 years of history? Not interested.
I really don’t think Doctor Who works in a movie format – I can’t really articulate why, it just seems different kind of storytelling; there’s an inherent episodic nature to flying through the universe in your time machine that’d be lost in a movie, especially if it were stand-alone. Without being woven into this whole ongoing narrative, the story of the Doctor, it’d just be some powerful alien with a time machine against other powerful aliens. Doctor Who, the series, is more than its parts, so just showing one part in the form of a movie misses what makes Who Who.
Oh MY GOD - I hate this idea so much. hate hate hate. so much so that I can’t articulate, just say I agree with Lilacs & Half Man Half Wit 's posts especially.
the thought of Hollywood taking one of my favorite things and making it over from scratch just ruined my morning.
Why don’t you just tell us what your link leads to? It’s just as funny that way, and most of us don’t really feel like clicking on a link to imdb just for the hell of it.
I am not sure what to think of this idea. I think the concept could be fun, but it’s Hollywood doing it, and I think they will do it clumsily and shoehorn in all kinds of unneccesary things.
Thanks. I never click on links unless I have a reason to - I’m on Citrix, and everything I do slows it down more. Imdb I particularly hate, just like youtube, because you have no idea what you are actually clicking on, and imdb is chock-full of ads.
Also, if it is the recent HHGtG movie, I liked it.
ETA: Gyrate and kenobi, are you the same person? :dubious:
