Steve Moffat Says DOCTOR WHO Movie Would Star TV Doctor & Won't Be A Reboot

By Matt Holmes / December 2, 2011

Did Variety take a few liberties with their Doctor Who film reboot story last month? BBC have failed to confirm or deny the existence of the proposed movie in the weeks after the very peculiar announcement and now strong in conviction comments from the show-runner of the current TV series Steven Moffat on Twitter seem to suggest the trade have their info jumbled up. Here's what Moffat has said;

To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.

Variety's story about the Doctor Who movie came without a press release but was pieced together seemingly entirely from comments made by David Yates, director of the last four Harry Potter movies. Moffat continues;

Movie thing: David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff, on a red carpet. You€™ve seen the rubbish I talk when I€™m cornered.

So what is going on here? Is it a case of the left hand not talking to the right hand in terms of departments at the BBC and somebody has put a block to this Doctor Who film reboot idea from Yates somewhere along the lines? A power war certainly seems to be on the agenda. It's Yates, wanting to move forward with a new Doctor Who separate film franchise who quite astonishingly said previously;

€œIt 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.€

And ever since then Moffat has been quick to suggest the film reboot idea is a dumb one and hasn't spoken positively at all. He even compared BBC's plans to an ill-fated trip to the moon recently. What does the future of Doctor Who hold on the big screen? Moffat certainly seems sure no standalone franchise is getting the greenlight but it doesn't sound like a movie version of his tv version is either.