@Lagunabeachunithq
Oh and we will, I will, but all we can do in relation to the movie is sit back and watch.

Anything we say or think won’t matter to the people in a charge of a big budget Doctor Who movie, as evidenced by the complete departure from Doctor Who canon.

There will be enough fans who love the idea of a movie, no matter that it’s completely unrelated to Doctor Who, who will suggest Hollywood Actors to play whatever kind of ‘Doctor’ and I use that word loosely, ends up being in the movie and the BBC and Yates will use that to say the fans are behind them and support the movie.

Oh no…. So a movie would be cool but starting from scratch? And worst of all David Yates!??! He is a really bad director who ruined the last batch of Harry Potters and is actually a really bad director… sigh…

I don’t care either way really – neither is a guarantee of it being a good film. And thats before we get onto the chances of it actually happening anyway…

With any luck this will never happen ! If it ever does it will be the end for tv Dr Who and rather than 13 eps a year we would move to 1 ep every couple years. That wont work cos general public wont “get it” and the franchise will fail after 1 or at best 2 films…BBC & HOLLYWOOD…LEAVE DR WHO ALONE ! IT’S OK WHERE IT IS !

Futher to my previous comment, Yates remark that the show “needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.” is frightening in the extreme ! Any big screen outing would have to feature one of the recent Dr’s, and fit into cannon. Sadly however, judging by Yates remarks I dont see that happening…I for one hope this NEVER gets off the ground !

NO NO NO! THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN!

The fact that it wouldn’t be cannon is irksome. It wouldn’t be ‘proper’ Doctor Who, for want of a better word.

I personally dont have a problem with it, its not like the film will erase the tv series’ work, its a seperate movie! Just like the Peter Cushing films! They were Who movies yet noone seems to count Cushing as a Doctor. So I dont think making a movie would be absolutely awful, it might be what Who needs! I personally would love to see more McGann, perhaps his regeneration into Nine? Although getting Eccleston on board would be rather tricky!

no, no, no, no, no,no, NO! this cannot happen! It would ruin the franchise to transplant it into the world of hollywood. it needs to stay where it is – a lovely slot at saturday teatime!!!!!!
Although … Matt Smith has said he wants to try and crack hollywood, so here’s hoping :)

Ok. Let’s look at what’s wrong with what’s just been said.

“It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.”

The very words fill me with horror. Granted, DW may not be the most perfect show on TV. But what’s perfection? Do not fix what is not broken. I can only read ‘transformation’ as ‘Americanisation’. And in my book – with no offence to any Americans reading this – ‘Americanisation’ is very, very rarely a good thing. Especially with something so British. Torchwood suffered enough for being made in America. Several years’ worth of quirk and charm – lost. Do not do this to Doctor Who.

“Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic,” he said. “We have to put that aside and start from scratch”

Why does this make it sound like *he* owns the franchise now? Has he ever had anything to do with DW? No! His tone suggests, to me (an eternal pessimist, I’ll be honest) that he will now proceed to do a better job than two of Britain’s finest TV writers, without any of their input. And the very idea of starting from scratch…! Does he even know the first thing about Who, and what Who means to us? You’ve got plenty of your own shows to bring to the big screen. Leave ours the hell alone.

“In terms of writers, he added: “We want a British sensibility, but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote Potter films and captured that, so we’re looking at American writers too.”

No, he didn’t. Sorry.

Apologies, folks, for the long, irrational, angry ranting. I’m not going to out and say THIS WILL BE TERRIBLE, but let’s face it, it will be. I hate the whole thing and I dearly hope this stupidity ends here and now and that this is the last we ever hear of such madness.

sorry for post two, but the BBC article says that Doctor Who needs ‘quite a radical transformation.’
NO IT DOESN’T. IT IS PERFECT AS IT IS.

@Katie
I enjoyed the Peter Cushing movies, the thing being if the cast of The First Doctor crew were available for the filming of the films then Peter Cushing would never have been cast as the Doctor. So in a way Peter Cushing was potraying the first doctor and the continuity would have matched the TV programme (although there were some differences) The case would be completely different if Mr Yates proceeded with the rubbish thats going ahead. As I said before he’ll probably take Doctor Who and turn it into some sort of action film. He’ll take Doctor Who and twist it to his own desire. Ahhh, sorry had to get that off my chest….

@The 13th Doctor
Cushing in the films was human, who invented a time machine in his back garden. So it’s not ‘proper’ Who, despite being great fun.

@TWWL
Yeh those are the differences I was meaning

i would say for it to have matt smith, karen gillan and arhtur darvill but make everything else more movieised if you get what i mean??

and it should be released in britain first

@The 13th Doctor Peter Cushing, who was spectacular, played “Doctor Who” a human scientist who had stumbled across his discovery. Although the films are based on the TV series, they were actually independent from the TV series. The “Tardis” in the films was far removed from the TV Series as the BBC did not like the idea of an independent company using their sets or copies of the sets. The Dalek images belong to Terry Nation, so the Dalek voices are similar but not the same. The relationships between the characters is very different from the show, other than Susan being one of Doctor Who’s Grand-daughters!
A new Doctor Who film? Again? 3rd time lucky?
Any attempt should be firmly placed in the “Doctor Who” camp and not be directly linked to the TV series.

One important point about the Peter Cushing films — yes, the Doctor was human in those, but bear in mind that at that point in the series history, for all fans news, he was in the TV series as well! All that had been established about the Doctor and Susan was that they came from “another time, another world”. In Terry Nation’s films, the Doctor was established as an eccentric inventor from the future, which is entirely compatible with what the series had said on the matter to that point. The Doctor was just a technologically advanced human, presumably from a future where we’d colonized other worlds, up until the regeneration scene in “The Tenth Planet”. His species didn’t even get a name until “The War Games”, and most of what we know about Time Lord biology comes from the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras — well after the Dalek movies.

So I think we can excuse the Cushing movies for that.

I cannot, however, excuse them for naming him “Doctor Who,” as in, Who was his actual surname.

I do think this could be okay. It could also be terrible. I was very wary of RTD’s revival of Doctor Who in 2005, but it turned out brilliantly. I am dubious about making it outside canon, but then again, outside canon does not actually mean destroying canon. Fanfiction is outside canon, the New Adventures were outside canon. Doesn’t mean they’re all awful or disgraces to the series. Heck, “Human Nature” became a cracking good episode of the actual series, so non-canon materials aren’t always disgraces to the series.

I shall reserve judgement. First and foremost, however, it needs to be pointed out that most movie concepts never leave paper.

@Calli Arcale
Well sure, you can try and ‘excuse’ them, but it still means that those films are not Doctor Who ‘proper’. They’re like a spin off, but not true Who.