A couple of days ago, an article on Variety‘s website came out stating how BBC is currently moving forward with a Doctor Who feature film with David Yates attached as the director. Seems cool enough, eh? But of course there are shades of gray (grey?) that go with this striking bit of news.

First bit to take notice of, is they want to turn this beloved ‘television’ franchise in to a film ‘franchise’. In doing so, they plan to start from scratch. But how far back do they want to do? In other scenario’s, a reboot (is this what they mean?) or a fresh start they can ignore facts. Much like Yates’ Harry Potter team with the Dumbledore character after the legendary actor Richard Harris sadly passed away, being succeeded by the awesome Michael Gambon. In that case, nobody cared, because his character was kept in line with the books. I think there’s a change of atmosphere when Gambon took over. You can see they changed from a magical lovey feeling in 1 and 2, to a more dark side in 3-7. This is all evident in the books though of course.

However, this is Doctor Who. And now we’re at the point where everybody loves Matt Smith. And if you don’t, you’re a liar. I was hesitant at first myself. But I do, I love the way he took on the role. And he has said it himself (or perhaps rumored), that he’d like to jump to the big screen. Maybe this is his chance? Maybe these feature films will give him the calling he needs and rightly deserves. It would keep things consistent. And as evident, they bring mention in the Variety article that they want a proper writer that will appeal to both the American and UK crowd. Why not keep Matt on board? It’ll hit two birds with one stone. I think if you have a Doctor in the show, and another Doctor on the big screen… there’d be a bit of confusion. Am I alone there? Sure us older folk can keep up (though we’ll have to grit our teeth). But the younger audience will see Matt on TV, but not in the movies.

As for the writer, I’m sure I won’t be the only one to say it. But I’d like nothing better than to see Mr. Neil Gaiman. I truly enjoyed his episode “The Doctor’s Wife.” It brought in a little old school Who, mixed in with new bits as well. And I think it was quite honestly the best written, and acted episode of the season. It was incredible! How could you not like it? Have to give a shout out to Michael Sheen on the voice acting in the episode as well! Such an amazing job well done. I’m fairly certain that he would work well with a production team on at least the first film. And together they could create a DW film for all Whovians to enjoy.

Who do you think should write this Doctor Who film? Leave your opinion in the comments below!