‘Who’ saw this coming??? According to Variety, ‘Harry Potter’ director David Yates will bring the BBC’s long-running, much-loved primetime sci-fi series Doctor Who to the cinema screen!
Yates is due to commence development on the feature very soon, alongside the US-based BBC Worldwide executive VP of programming and production, Jane Tranter. Little is known about Yates’ ultimate plans for the franchise, but he’s revealed that this will be a deviation from the current team behind the TV show:
“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.”
Interesting. This is the first big screen venture for the time lord since the sixties (1965’s Doctor Who and the Daleks and the following year’s Doctor Who: Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. both featured Hammer veteran Peter Cushing as The Doctor) and it could prove very lucrative indeed for the BBC.
Some fans may bemoan the fact that their beloved character may become synonymous with those US-centric Harry Potter-style blockbuster extravaganzas, but this is arguably the only way a big-screen version could have gone.
