Dr Who Hollywood blockbuster being planned?

[page3]

Such a stupid idea to do a film while the current series is running and doing well. How to dilute a brand.

Fine in 10 or 20 years though...

[Jim the Sunderer]

2slo said:

I think John Cleese would be great as the Dr. I know he was in the frame previously, don't know why it didn't happen. Money probably.

He's not got two pennies to rub together, he'd do it cheap.

[peterperkins]

I've been in my Tardis to the future and have seen how the film looks.

1) Lots of special effects and hordes of cgi enemies.
2) Dr has amazing martial arts abilities and skilled with bladed weapons.
3) Sonic screwdriver turns into laser blaster.
4) Dr jumping around set like a demented mexican bean.
5) It is ste

[ItsaTVR]

page3 said:

Such a stupid idea to do a film while the current series is running and doing well. How to dilute a brand.

Fine in 10 or 20 years though...

Agreed.

Other reasons to NOT do it:

Thunderbirds
Torchwood USA
Avengers - major waste of Uma Thurman...
Hitchhikers Guide - not all that bad but wood you want another...
They might try to use Matt Smith!
Dr.Who, The Movie (1996)
Any American film version of a TV show, they're all crap.
(Except The Fugitive w/Harrison Ford)

[ItsaTVR]

peterperkins said:

I've been in my Tardis to the future and have seen how the film looks.

4) Dr jumping around set like a demented mexican bean.
5) It is ste

So, you're also afraid they'd use Smith...

[jas xjr]

The timeframe they put on this was four to five years

[rhinochopig]

ItsaTVR said:

So, you're also afraid they'd use Smith...

I've seen it too through my future shuftyscope and you'll be please to know it wasn't smith. It was Matt LeBlanc

[ItsaTVR]

rhinochopig said:

I've seen it too through my future shuftyscope and you'll be please to know it wasn't smith. It was Matt LeBlanc

He's alittle old now, but he HAS worked with monkeys.
They might as well revive Sylvester McCoy...

[Teppic]

A film will kill the TV series stone dead. The rights issues alone would prevent both co-existing (it was arguments about who had the rights to Doctor Who that kept it from TV screens from 1996-2005).

I'd rather have fourteen 45 minute episodes a year than one 2 hour movie every three years, and so would many Doctor Who fans.