Since early 2011, director of the last few Harry Potter films, David Yates has expressed an interest in turning the BBC’s Doctor Who into a big hit on the big screen. However, his plans would mean a change from the current TV series by replacing the current Doctor, Matt Smith. Since then, showrunner and head writer, Steven Moffat, has said that a movie will happen, but it can’t damage the official TV series, and that’s exactly what Yates film would do.
So what’s the solution? In this article we take a look at what the fans would like to see in the film of Doctor Who that Mr Moffat is determined will happen…
4. The Time War
When Doctor Who came back in 2005, the absence of the Time Lord’s and the occasional trip to the Doctor’s home planet, Gallifrey, had to be explained. This was successfully done by the ancient tale of the Time War. Often referred to as the last great Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks. According to the Doctor, everyone lost (9th Doctor – Rose).
But somewhere along the line, the Doctor took a regeneration from the 8th Doctor (Paul McGann) to the 9th Doctor (Christopher Ecclestone). We can only assume this was some effect of the Time War. Perhaps he was exterminated, or maybe there’s something more there. McGann has never missed an opportunity to admit how much he would love to return to Doctor Who.
What say you?
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As a bit of an avid Doctor Who fan – something I did not envision when they resurrected the show in 2005 – I would love to see an epic TV movie for this multi Doctor reunion. I hope that they don’t regenerate Matt Smith on it though…this episode will be crazy and distracting enough, I think regeneration should be a little more subtle, like Eccelston’s which despite being an epic episode, made a decent shot at the transition at the end unlike the grovelling mess they made with Tennant which seemed to go on forever.
I hope he leaves soon, I havent liked Matt Smith’s “acting” and the moffat storys
They could make a movie to show the return of the Time Lord race who escaped the time war by hiding outside of time itself. The show itself could do with more Time Lords story lines.
If there had to be a new actor playing the Doctor, they could always do a take on the WHO version of Young Indiana Jones. A fresh and inexperienced young Timelord in his first incarnation goes on his first mission to another world in a TARDIS. During his observations he comes to know the people of a new world. It’s when calamity is about to strike, the young Doctor can’t just sit there hiding in his disguised TARDIS, and he gets involved, gets to save the day, and gets into trouble when he returns to Gallifrey. Sequels could be made, each time the young Timelord is breaking rules and getting involved. The final film in the franchise would show the actual theft of the TARDIS and departure from Gallifrey. It’s here we see the new Doctor actor begins to resemble William Hartnell’s incarnation. Yeah… that would work. New actor and the tv series isn’t harmed.
ummm, mainly moffat said that yates’ claims to be working on a who film were a weird fantasy and that there is no production in any way shape or form taking place.
while its fun to day dream, let’s be very clear about this: there is no who film in the works. there never was a who film in the works. until moffat says otherwise, there never will be a who film in the works.
Moffat has said that a film WILL HAPPEN. Just one day.
and the ’11 doctors’ idea has already been somewhat spilled on ‘blogtorwho.com’ a couple months ago, as a possible title for the 50th anniversary episode title.
The number one option would definitely not be my favourite and i would be very much disappointed if this would happen, but where as it seems strange in the comparison with Harry Potter it did work on the last Star Trek movie. But where the Star Trek franchise was struggling at best, the Doctor Who franchise doesn’t have that problem (yet). In fact the Doctor Who franchise is very much alive.
The time war might happen sometime,but I can’t see it happening till the new series has finished.