A lot has been said about the David Yates Hollywood Doctor Who movie, and to be honest we have ignored most of it in the belief it'll never happen. Earlier today, Steven Moffat spoke out on Twitter about it;
Movie thing: David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff, on a red carpet. You've seen the rubbish I talk when I'm cornered.
To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.
Yates doesn't even seem to have approached the BBC about this movie, so if you hold your breath waiting, you will turn blue and die! Reading between the lines it appears to me Moffat may have one up his sleeve for the future though - we can hope anyhow :)
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Even if Moffat doesn't have one in the works, up his sleeve, or even in his planning, I'm pleased to hear that Hollywood won't be ruining Doctor Who with an unneeded, and probably bad, reboot, especially since the show is still running. Right now.
Thank Heavens for that!
Very good news.
As an American, may I say that I am sick of the "americanizing" of British entertainment. Giving Doctor Who the Hollywood treatment would be a mess of special effects and loud music with very little story backing it up. The whole reason we didn't get Doctor Who until 2005 was that silly American 'version' with a crappy death scene for poor Sylvester McCoy.
Variety, which broke the story of the Yates movie, said Yates was working with Jane Tranter and BBC Worldwide. I think the BBC would have disclaimed the story themselves, if Yates didn't have some connection with them. Instead, he's given more interviews (formal print interviews, not just red carpet chat).
This is starting to look like a turf war: BBC Worldwide going ahead without Moffat, and Moffat tweeting in reaction.
Fantastic!
I have to agree with stagbeetle , Yates has made the movie comment more than once and in very public places including magazine interviews; it doesn't seem like just an off the cuff comment. Unfortunately this isn't the first time Moffatt and BBC have been at odds. If Yates was truly speaking without having even approached the BBC with some ideas about a film, then the BBC have had ample time to issue a statement on their own, but they haven't. not yet anyway.
The BBC has actually made a statement...
A BBC spokesman said: "A Doctor Who feature film remains in development with BBC Worldwide Productions in Los Angeles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15730665
This does sound more like a left hand/right hand issue than Yates just going completely out on the limb.
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