After deciding an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand wasn’t really for him, Variety reports that the director of the last four Harry Potter movies David Yates is developing a Doctor Who movie with the BBC.
“We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right,” says Yates. “…We’re looking at writers now.”
This will be the Timelord’s first big screen movie in decades and Yates says it will have no ties whatsoever to the current television incarnation starring Matt Smith…
“It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena…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.”
“The notion of the time-travelling Time Lord is such a strong one, because you can express story and drama in any dimension or time,”
“We want a British sensibility, but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we are looking at American writers too. Link
I'll repeat. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Every single episode of Doctor Who, including the 1996 FOX TV movie, is within the Doctor Who canon. Creating a movie that is NOT canon is a terrible, terrible idea.
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“Creating a movie that is NOT canon is a terrible, terrible idea.”
And therefore it was inevitable that someone would do it.
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