I know Doctor Who is a super popular show that I manage to neglect but something is forcing my hand to give the property some attention. David Yates, director of the last 4 Harry Potter movies, is taking on the task of adapting the property for theatrical release.
Source: Obsessed with Film
After deciding an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand wasn’t really for him, Variety reports that the director of the last four Harry Potter movies David Yates is developing a Doctor Who movie with the BBC.
“We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right,” says Yates. “…We’re looking at writers now.”
This will be the Timelord’s first big screen movie in decades and Yates says it will have no ties whatsoever to the current television incarnation starring Matt Smith…
“It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena…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.”
“The notion of the time-travelling Time Lord is such a strong one, because you can express story and drama in any dimension or time,”
“We want a British sensibility, but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we are looking at American writers too
This is really exciting news and a really good move for David Yates to continue to progress his career. “Dr. Who” does have an incredibly large following and I certainly hope that Yates decides to hop into the directors chair for this project. It’s interesting that he wants the film to maintain a fairly British tone, which I love, but begs me to wonder who he would take on the iconic role. Will he go for an A-list American or an A-list British star? And does he still have Dan Radcliffe’s number because he could really use a bone…
