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Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
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That's what I was thinking.
this is a naughty little teaser to keep our appetite whetted; There more for the celebration.
(Possibly in need of restoration) |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-10-2013 15:43 Post subject: |
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| eburacum wrote: | I seem to remember Patrick Troughton as Salamander; he looked, and acted, completely different. Spooky.
Troughton was a very good actor, and he could do threatening parts quite well. His 'cosmic hobo' persona as Who was not the limit of his acting talent by any means. |
That's true, just look at him in The Omen, totally different character, utterly humourless and very effective. |
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sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-10-2013 11:04 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Ben Wheatley to direct Doctor Who
EXCLUSIVE: Kill List and Sightseers director will direct the first two episodes of BBC TV classic Doctor Who.
Ben Wheatley will direct the first two episodes of BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who.
The director, known for his unsettling, macabre and darkly-comic style in films such as Sightseers and Kill List, confirmed the news to ScreenDaily.
Wheatley will direct the episodes for series eight through December and into the new year for transmission in autumn 2014.
It will see the filmmaker direct Peter Capaldi, the Thick of It star who was confirmed in August to take the role from outgoing Matt Smith.
“I am very excited and honoured to be asked to direct the first two episodes of the new series of Doctor Who. I’ve been a fan since childhood (Tom Baker is my Doctor if you are asking),” Wheatley told Screendaily. “I’ve been watching the current run of Doctor who with my son and have discovered it all over again. The work that has been done is amazing. I’m really looking forward to working with Peter Capaldi and finding out where Steven Moffat is planning to take the new Doctor,” .
One of the UK’s most distinctive film voices with a large cult following, Wheatley’s attachment will likely excite fans of the director and the classic British series.
Wheatley’s features include acclaimed horror Kill List, about two hit men who become embroiled in a nightmarish cult. His debut feature was comedy crime drama Down Terrace in 2009 and he directed Alice Lowe and Steve Oram in dark comedy Sightseers, which won top awards at the BIFAs and Sitges.
His most recent film was psychedelic English civil-war drama A Field in England, which was the first UK film to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, free TV and VoD.
In taking on the challenge, he becomes the most established film director to tackle the Time Lord.
However, Wheatley will need to curb some of the darker instincts on display in his features, given that Doctor Who airs pre-watershed on BBC and has a legion of younger fans.
The director’s previous TV credits include BBC comedy series Ideal, starring Johnny Vegas, and BBC sketch show The Wrong Door. In recent months he has also been courted by US networks with original drama Silk Road in development for HBO.
The director is known to have a passion for the sci-fi genre and has been in development for some time on his first US feature Freakshift, about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal monsters.
After his work on Doctor Who, Wheatley is due to direct a feature adaption of JG Ballard’s dystopian novel High Rise for Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas.
Last week it was revealed that nine episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s - previously thought lost - have been found at a TV station in Nigeria.
The sci-fi series is carried in more than 50 territories, including BBC America in the US.
It celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and a special episode will be broadcast simultaneously in more than 70 countries.
The Day of the Doctor, which will star the current Doctor Matt Smith and his predecessor David Tennant, will also be shown in more than 200 UK cinemas.
So far TV networks in 75 countries have agreed to air the show on Nov 23. |
http://www.screendaily.com/news/ben-wheatley-to-direct-doctor-who/5062452.article#
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-10-2013 16:28 Post subject: |
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| I just hope it'll be halfway comprehensible. Should be good for the spooky stuff, though. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-10-2013 18:12 Post subject: |
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Full story:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-13/steven-moffat-on-doctor-who-regenerations-go-back-and-count-again--theres-something-youve-missed
| Quote: | The fact that the Doctor could be close to using up his apparent limit of 12 regenerations is one that hasn’t passed Doctor Who fans by. What will happen when his time is finally up we don’t know but there’s an assumption that whoever’s in charge of the show will find a way.
After all, there is a precedent here. The Doctor’s Time Lord adversary the Master used up his entire allocation but was handed a new regenerative cycle after taking possession of a non-Time Lord body and later having it restructured (it's a long story).
However, Steven Moffat today confirmed of the Doctor, “He can only regenerate 12 times”, while simultaneously suggesting there has been a miscalculation of how many regenerations he has actually been through.
“I think you should go back to your DVDs and count correctly this time," said Moffat, "there’s something you’ve all missed...” |
Yeah, I know, Moffat being cryptic again shock. But this might have repercussions. What is he on about? |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 541 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 15-10-2013 19:03 Post subject: |
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Considering this is Moffatt logic we're talking here, I wouldn't even bother trying to figure it out.  |
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| Anome_ Faceless Man
Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2002 Total posts: 5377 Location: Left, and to the back. Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-10-2013 12:25 Post subject: |
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Apart from John Hurt sneaking in for the 50th, 10 semi-regenerating into his own hand (oo-er), 11 apparently starting a regeneration, and then being killed, or not as it turned out, then River giving him her regenerations (although she wasn't actually a Time Lord, so not clear how many she had to give, or what giving them to someone else actually does).
Then there's the use of the term "regeneration" which doesn't crop up until 3 regenerates into 4. Previously, he was "rejuvenated" and "changed his appearance".
Come to mention it, he didn't have a "normal" regeneration for quite a while. The second was forced by the Time Lords, the third was somehow pushed by either K'anpo or Cho-Je, the fourth somehow involved him absorbing some aspect of himself. I don't remember them after that. I think the sixth happened when he fell over in the TARDIS between series.
Then there's that whole Valeyard business, that's probably best forgotten, really.
There's also a line from The Sarah Jane Adventures where he says he can change appearance over 500 times.
Oh, who knows? Maybe he's an LMD. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 16-10-2013 13:01 Post subject: |
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| Wasn't the 12 max limit a rule imposed by the Time Lords themselves, rather than an absolute limit? Troughton's Who did once mention that, theoretically, they could live forever, barring accidents. |
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