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David Yates, the acclaimed Harry Potter director (Phoenix and Deathly Hallows) has been charged with the daunting task of bringing the sci-fi favorite, Dr. Who to the silver screen. Yates has committed to the Dr. Who project but first they need to find a writer.
“We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right,” Yates told Variety about the Doctor Who movie project. “It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena. The notion of the time-traveling Time Lord is such a strong one, because you can express story and drama in any dimension or time.”
Doctor who originally ran from 1963 to 1989 and has been restarted quite a few times. In 2005 writer Russell T. Davies relaunched the program and than Steven Moffat, took over with his series “The Adventures of Tin Tin”. The latest version stars Matt Smith and is the 11th incarnation of Dr. Who.
Yates has said that the Dr. Who movie won’t be expanding on the TV series;
“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,” Yates said in his interview with Variety.
Yates is working with BBC Executive Jane Tranter who oversaw the revival of Dr. Who on the BBC starting in 2005. Yates worked with Tranter at the BBC prior to doing “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and both parts of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
source: Variety
