Doctor Who Movie to "Start From Scratch"
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:06 pm
BBC News - Doctor Who 'to be made into film'Dr Who is to be taken to the big screen by Harry Potter director David Yates.
Yates, who directed the last four Potter films, told Variety that he is about to start work on developing a "Doctor Who" film with the BBC.
He told the showbiz magazine that the film would take a fresh approach to the cult sci-fi show.
"We're going to spend two to three years to get it right. It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena," he said.
"Russell T. Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside and start from scratch," he said.
I can see that working; Ten had plenty of chronological opportunities to squeeze in another story, with or without a companion. But "start from scratch" sounds like either an origin story for One or introducing Twelve.