Dr Who (film)

[Neil]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15730665


Cult BBC TV show Doctor Who is set to be made into a Hollywood movie, a leading director has said.

David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter films, told Variety magazine he is working on developing a feature film with the BBC.

[Cykotic]

Oh god no. If the BBC ever respected the show, they will abandon the film idea now.

If they do decide to go about making a film of it, maybe the Time War wouldn't be such a bad idea....

[SymphonicX]

I second the phrase "oh god, no."

Gave up on this tv series a few seasons ago, it just became awfully contrived and over the top, lacked any sort of real grounding and to be honest, started to lack ideas. It became a collection of stories about a shambling humanoid alien group that was overall, misunderstood...sometimes evil, but mostly innocent and misunderstood. Just got boring, the whole premise was a bit boring - only thing I really dig is Karen Gillan...

[Neil]

Oh god no. If the BBC ever respected the show, they will abandon the film idea now.

If they do decide to go about making a film of it, maybe the Time War wouldn't be such a bad idea....

They're obviously simply aiming at the $$$$$$ they'll earn...

[Cykotic]

one word: Merchandise

[MinionZombie]

Yeah I'm not interested in this announcement - the latest series of Dr. Who in particular was quite boring and eye-rolling. There were some good episodes, but there were also some right shit ones too ... but the main problem is the overall tone. It takes itself waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously now - there's nothing wrong with taking something seriously, but if you don't get the tone right it just comes off as crap ... TWD is a prime example of taking something seriously (zombies) and getting it properly right ... Dr. Who is an example of taking something too seriously and turning it into a chore.

Plus I quickly got bored with the 'series wide story arc' they kept trying to force on it ... while abandoning it at random, only to remind you briefly of it with some brief glimpse at something which is exactly the same as the brief glimpse you got the week before, and the week before that, and the week before that ... so you just had an non-developing tease of something bigger that you didn't give a shit about.

I'm not saying it couldn't turn out to be good (the Time War would be ideal territory to cover), but if they left it up to Moffat and/or Davies I'd wonder if it'd potentially get lost up its own arse at some point. They've both done excellent episodes (like Moffat's series closer to the first series that Matt Smith did as the Doctor), but they've also written episodes that have been total duds with dollops of pretentiousness or ill-considered political 'subtext' forced upon them, and indeed steered entire series that have been very inconsistent when it comes to quality.

Throughout this entire latest series I've thought that perhaps it's time to just let the Doctor have a rest for a while ... and while they're at it, do the same with Torchwood (they really blew a great opportunity with the latest series of that ... especially as it started off so strongly).

[Danny]

unless its some dream team like written by neil gaimen, directed by guilliermo del toro and score by john williams or some shit im gonna pass.