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The 9th Dr Who may be....
Well from Peter Cushing to..... Eddie Izzard?!? A possible 9th Doctor Who in a new Dr Who tv series/movie. Cool. eh?
Great site redesign, but CoAxiel is looking a bit bare of late. Just
thought I'd mail this to you:- Appeared in Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK
a week or so ago. Apparantly the BBC are considering Eddie Izzard (who
plays Connery's mute sidekick in the Avengers flick) to play the 9th Doctor
in a new TV series / BBC movie - a BBC 'insider' is quoted as saying
'There's been speculation about a women playing the next Doctor...with
Eddie they would get a bit of both" - witty reference to
Eddie's...er...colourful clothing tastes! : )
Posting name: Davros
thought I'd mail this to you:- Appeared in Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK
a week or so ago. Apparantly the BBC are considering Eddie Izzard (who
plays Connery's mute sidekick in the Avengers flick) to play the 9th Doctor
in a new TV series / BBC movie - a BBC 'insider' is quoted as saying
'There's been speculation about a women playing the next Doctor...with
Eddie they would get a bit of both" - witty reference to
Eddie's...er...colourful clothing tastes! : )
Posting name: Davros
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P.S: Excuse my english!!! -
He was supposed to have a really tiny part, but he did it so well that 'they' fleshed it out a bit more, and he has far more dialogue in the finished article.
Which was nice of them.
And one of the other henchmen is ex-Happy Monbays (and ex-Black Grape?) singer and all round hard nut, Shaun Ryder!
This could be fun.
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We only have 13 possible Doctors, unless we do some creative revisionism.
When we have a perfectly good Doctor, even if his only episode blew, let's at least do a few seasons with him before moving on.
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As to the comments about a 9th Doc, all I have to say is that it's bull. Paul McGann wants to return to the role. If not, well they should bring back Sylvester McCoy and have him regenerate yet again so to keep a 8th doc around. Plus if a 9th doc is used, this will mess up the current line of BBC books.
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Dr. Who needs to return soon. As an American influenced property, it may never satisfy its global fan base, but as a British property, it will never get off the ground (lack of $$$). Any bored millionares out there? A whole hell of a lot of passoinate
people want this show back in one form or another. -
Well, I think one of the problems with getting a new Who off the ground is the legal crap the property is embroiled in right now. It seems that a group, called the Daltenreys, had the rights to do a film, but pissed around too long, and FOX jumped in and co-funded a film with the BBC. Now there's some question of whether they waited long enough to start the FOX TV movie, and the Daltenreys sued the BBC over it... Now, all you Spdierman fans can appreciate how big of a wrench a well placed law suit can throw into the works.... The best idea I've heard so far was from another private funding group that are not trying to get rights to the TV Series, but rather the "Sequel Rights" to the old Peter Cushing films... Now that's a creative way to launch a new Who...
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As someone suggested before, somebody ought to convince some lonely, dying millionaire to donate most of his assets toward buying the license to Doctor Who; and fund a kick-ass, continuity driven, Doctor Who series (Anna Nicole Smith coul've been a hero, but nooooo...)!
Izzard can play the 9th Doc...after Paul McGann's logged in at least three-plus years worth as the Eighth Doctor like in the good old days! Paul's a good actor and has quite the fan following as it is.
If the producers would allow for some of the more talented writers from the Virgin and BBC Doc Who novels to have a hand in it; as well as some talented FX people (if guys like Kevin Rubio of TROOPS fame can turn in awesome FX for less than two grand...), and dedicated directors; Doctor Who could truly be as great as it was in the 60's and 70's! Too many shows (X-Files, Star Trek, Babylon 5)have borrowed heavily from the vast,rich ideas of this once long-lived series and it's about time that the real deal returned to television in top form!
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Hi all. Just got back from looking at Shannon Patrick Sullivan's DW News website. He is an official person when it comes to Doctor Who info. He posted a mention about AICn, and says that this was all from the tabloids looking at a letter in Radio Times. There is NOTHING true at all about a 9th Doctor. Guess someone or someones should get their info straight before posting it.
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Hey, Harry: Peter Cushing was not the first Doctor. That was William Hartnell. Cushing played a brainy-college-professor turned brainy-space-wizard in two very bad american films. They were Doctor Who movies, in the same way that City of Angels is a Crow movie- ones we'd just like to keep off the record.
Nate -
First of all I would love for the BBC to get off their collective ass' and bring back Doctor Who.
But please keep the good doctor in England(or at least keep the production company there). The Fox movie wasn't bad, and the attempt to make the doctor almost human was interesting, but it completely lost the British flavour and weird sense of humour when they brought it North America.
Oh, and I don't think the world's ready for a female doctor. Maybe a later regeneration but not this one. -
Apparently the bbc are considering doing a 'who' movie to make there presence known in the Cinema, as for casting, it being a woman is all made up rubbish just to create a stir. we all know that Dr who belongs on tv as a series anyway thats the only way it will work. Why can't Someone at the Beeb pull there thumb out of there overpaid ass and comision a new series. As for Them stating they can't aford it. Bollocks..with the Budget it used to have...today,they could still turn out a pretty decent series. So which one of you guys at the Beeb is gonna have the balls to bring it back? Answer That!
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Doctor Who should return to telvision, but a few caveats should be heeded: (1) Keep the show based in England. as seen with the FOX movie, the Doctor is a time-travelling, planet-hopping creature. Keep him that way. Don't go cheap (at least in location storyline).
(2) Avoid reference to the Doctor being half-human. The revelation made in the movie should be ignored. BIG MISTAKE.
(3) Use alien races as adversaries. I feel that the producers will have weekly "dimented human" villains (that is , if they keep the good Doctor earth-bound like in the movie. -
This is the same rumor that has been appearing for a few years. It is a very unlikely scenario. According to Variety, the BBC are in the earliest of early stages of even contemplating a new Dr Who film in conjunction with the recently formed HAL films. It's far too early to name names.
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I always thought that if the BBC and Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert's Rennaissance Pictures could come to terms with preserving the series' longstanding continuity, then a really decent partnership and production could come out of it. Rennaissance's Flat Earth f-x concern does a hell of a job on syndicated t-v budgets on both Hercules and Xena. Plus, with the strange humor that creeps into both the old Who and the Raimi projects, there is another plus toward probability.
Now if only someone could persuade Douglas Adams to hold off on his umpteenth script for The Hitchhiker's Guide and wrangle him for a couple of Who scripts (just like the old days)... -
The BBC have been in the early stages of creating a "Doctor Who" film for years. Now with the "Avengers" and "Lost in Space" re-emerging, maybe they will see some profit in it. It would be about time, they've had a loyal (and HUGE) fan base since the begining. Oh yeah, I am one of the few people who like the "half-human" connundrum, but I do agree: keep it british.
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If the latest resurgence of popular cult 60s shows into movie theaters is any indication as to the likelihood of a Dr. Who movie, I hope that it will keep the producers from making a film. Lost In Space was dreadful and The Avengers isn't looking too hopeful. A Dr. Who movie would have a lot of adversity to face, especially from the show's own fan base. Unless the movie fit in with the current canon of Who media and literature, then it would be utterly useless to the fans and it wouldn't hold much interest for anyone else. Let's face it, fellow Whovians, when it comes to the Doctor, we want to fit it all into one large story arc, and a huge multi-million dollar movie would wreak untold havoc on the work that we've done in preserving this story arc. As to what I understand about the entire mess, Paul McGann has been very wishy-washy about playing the Doctor again. He's told some interviewers that he wishes to do it again and others that he's already moved on. He is, however, playing the Doctor in an audio version of some short stories. I wouldn't blame McGann for not wanting to play the Doctor again, especially after the way the TV movie was treated by Fox. It was never really given a fair shot at any ratings whatsoever. The only way I see that Dr. Who can survive in the mass market of television is to return it solely to the BBC or to a market that is not based on ratings but rather quality, such as the Sci-Fi network, or even a pay cable channel, such as HBO. God knows I'd pay any price to see the Doctor's adventures continue, even if they don't mesh with the current line of novels. Sorry for being so long-winded.
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