Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film

Hugh Pickens writes writes "Variety reports that David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter films, is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series Doctor Who into a Hollywood franchise. 'We're looking at writers now. We're going to spend two to three years to get it right,' says Yates. 'It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.' But not everyone is enamored with the idea of Doctor Who on the big screen. 'I fear that high production values and the inevitable sexualisation of the lead characters that a Hollywood treatment brings will destroy the show,' writes Andrew M. Brown in the Telegraph. 'The ecosystem of a great television programme is a delicate thing. Please, Hollywood, don't spoil Doctor Who."

I'm sorry

[ColdWetDog]

But a director of a Harry Potter film getting withing 10 meters of Dr. Who fills me with a cold, evil feeling.

Either that or the breakfast burrito was bad...

"The sexualisation of the lead characters"

[Leuf]

Yes, we wouldn't want to risk sexualizing Amy Pond.

Re:"The sexualisation of the lead characters"

[gstoddart]

Yes, we wouldn't want to risk sexualizing Amy Pond.

I'll be in my bunk. ;-)

Re:Lol

[Anonymous Coward]

You Brits don't have a thing to worry about. Hollywood will use cheap CGI and how does Eddie Murphy as Doctor Who sound?

Re:Hell , yah.

[sribe]

Tom Baker??? Fuck that. The obvious and only choice for a Hollywood version: Arnold Schwarzenegger!

already ruined

[Deadplant]

Dr Who has already been ruined. They may as well sell it for scrap now.
The latest season has been an utter disgrace.

I'm a big fan, I've seen every episode.
(those early black and white ones are pretty campy)

The recent episode about the fat bumbling idiot with the talking baby was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"herp a derp... I'm a fat moron, look, I walked into a wall and knocked over a display-case! hahahah, now my baby is making cutting remarks about me! Oh dear! aliens! oh dear, I've bumbled and stumbled into their grasp, how will I ever escape? Maybe if I really *really* love my baby the power of my love will make them explode! KABOOM! yay! it worked! *happily ever after*"
I haven't been able to watch it again since that day.

Re:I'm sorry

[Dusty101]

J.K. Rowling was asked to write an episode of Doctor Who a few years ago, but she said she was too busy finishing the last of the Harry Potter books at the time.

And I like breakfast burritos: probably the greatest North American invention of all time!

Sexualization?

[DaFallus]

Uh, isn't Doctor Who fairly sexualized already (especially the 10th Doctor)? I mean, they have lesbian characters, guys from the 51st century who will have sex with anything, Amy Pond wanted the Doctor to "sort" her. Or is this simply an American vs British thing?

I figure an American version of Doctor Who would be more like this [cad-comic.com]

Re:Lol

[Baloroth]

Could be worse. Could be directed by Michael Bay and featuring Shia LaBeouf as Dr. Who.

I'll take cheap CGI.

Re:Lol

[Pope]

I prefer the original series, "Inspector Spacetime."

Re:Hell , yah.

[Dunbal]

Nah they'll cast Ashton Kutcher. I mean, the guy is going to be looking for a job soon anyway.

Heck, my wife hates Star Trek but enjoyed that mov

[SmallFurryCreature]

Heck, my wife hates Star Trek but enjoyed that movie

Do you think it is wise to broadcast your motive to the entire net while the police is still investigating her brutal and prolonged death?

Prediction: This will be like Coupon the Movie

[KeithIrwin]

I predict that this will be like Coupon the Movie all over again. [youtube.com]

Re:Hugh Laurie

[invid]

Plot Synopsis: Start in Victorian England. The Doctor (Hugh Laurie) is helping Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) to stop Moriarty (Alan Rickman) who has kidnapped Ada Lovelace (Angelina Jolie) and has stolen H.G. Well's (Zach Galifianakis) time machine. Moriarty goes into the future and uses Ada's knowledge of programming to take over the cybermen. Combining his evil genius with his robot army he goes to war against the only force that can stop him, the Daleks. The Doctor has a moral quandary: try to stop the war or let these two forces destroy each other. Lots of big explosions.

Re:it started in 2005

[Ginger Unicorn]

bobcat goldthwaite?