Following this past weekend’s Doctor Who panel at Comic-Con – where the first trailer for the upcoming series nine was premiered [watch it here] – IGN caught up with showrunner Steven Moffat, and asked him about the possibility of seeing the Doctor making the jump to the big screen for a theatrical movie.
“If it’s the same Doctor, what do we do, take all that time off?” said Moffat. “Do you really want one big movie instead of a whole series? Because that’s the arithmetic. If it’s a different Doctor, suddenly you’re trying to promote two Doctors at the same time, and how does that work? You don’t have one James Bond in the movies and one James Bond on a TV series. So I think there’s problems with it. That circle might be squareable, someone might be able to come up with the answer to that. And if they can, brilliant. Nobody at all, including the BBC, is just trying to make a fast buck out of Doctor Who. We’re trying to make a Doctor Who that is of lasting value. So we will do only what is best for the TV series.”
Back in 2011, Harry Potter helmed David Yates reportedly signed a deal to direct a Doctor Who movie which would “start from scratch” and ignore the series, although the plans seemed to fall by the wayside as nothing ever materialised.
Would you like to see a Doctor Who movie, and if so, should it take place in the same universe as the TV show? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below…
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Originally published July 16, 2015. Updated December 15, 2019.
