Doing a story like this is extremely dangerous. Were it to fail, it would negatively impact Doctor Who forever and it would be an extremely easy movie to get wrong. If you were to go this route, witnessing the change from the young Gallifreyan who cried in a barn to the mighty Time Lord who manipulated the Daleks into destroying their own planet would be incredibly interesting. Exploring the formative relationship between the Doctor, the Master and the Rani would also be of great importance to audiences' knowledge of their current rivalry with each other and the vague, subtle glimpses of their previous relationships would finally be thrust into the spotlight. The issue here is that should this script be lackluster, Doctor Who as a whole would be crippled. Much of the man who goes by the name Doctor is shrouded in mystery, the most obvious of which is his childhood. Stripping away that mystery - as seen during the Fifth and Sixth Doctors' runs - could be disastrous, reducing our overall interest in the Doctor as a character and giving concrete perceptions of him. Should this be handled correctly, however, and the Doctor Who mythos would be expanded and even redefined by the film. Done right, this origin story would compliment the Doctor's character and give him the depth that viewers have never seen before. There's only so many times he can say he has children then dodge the rest of the conversation before it gets old, right? And those throwaway mentions could add a new level of emotion if the audience was privy to the events surrounding the Doctor's origins. In short - this is risk and reward. The higher the risk, the higher the reward, but this risk might just be too high for even the amazing rewards it could bring.
Matthew Quayle was born in 1994 in Queensland, Australia. He mostly spends his time watching TV, playing games and being opinionated. Now that he has a job writing at What Culture, he's getting paid to do it too.
