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Post by Bernard Marx on Mar 25, 2024 1:44:44 GMT
Larry Semon as producer with Larry Semon as the Doctor. Two reels of zany slapstick antics every Saturday night, in which the Doctor hilariously falls into a pile of shit and turns black. Oh, wait... After falling in, Semon has the Doctor exclaim: “I don’t like the colour!” Amidst the inevitable backlash, Semon can merely acknowledge that Moffat wrote that line instead of him… |
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Post by UncleDeadly on Mar 25, 2024 1:50:22 GMT
Larry Semon as producer with Larry Semon as the Doctor. Two reels of zany slapstick antics every Saturday night, in which the Doctor hilariously falls into a pile of shit and turns black. Oh, wait... After falling in, Semon has the Doctor exclaim: “I don’t like the colour!” Amidst the inevitable backlash, Semon can merely acknowledge that Moffat wrote that line instead of him… Personally, i wouldn't trust Moffat OR Davies with dialogue involving Semon... |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Mar 25, 2024 1:55:53 GMT
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton co-produce, with both playing different incarnations of the Doctor.
The overarching cues and influences behind Troughton and McCoy’s Doctors are instantly in place. That’s a huge swathe of the job done.
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Post by Bernard Marx on Mar 25, 2024 1:58:12 GMT
After falling in, Semon has the Doctor exclaim: “I don’t like the colour!” Amidst the inevitable backlash, Semon can merely acknowledge that Moffat wrote that line instead of him… Personally, i wouldn't trust Moffat OR Davies with dialogue involving Semon... I wonder what the f*ck went through Moffat’s brain when he wrote that line… “I don’t like the colour”. WHAT are you referring to?! |
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 25, 2024 2:13:40 GMT
Just stopping will be enough for me. I'm ready for Wilderness Years 2. I don't want it to come back. You can have it back when I'm dead. Not that I'm cynical or anything.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2024 7:03:57 GMT
John Waters as producer with Divine as the Doctor
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Post by iank on Mar 25, 2024 7:15:29 GMT
We're practically there now.
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 25, 2024 9:03:31 GMT
Not that anyone here would need to worry about the possibility anyway- although I’d personally be open to it- because Nolan’s on record of saying he won’t be working in TV anytime soon. Haven’t rumours circulated for years of Peter Jackson giving it a go? I swear there were posts on the Leisure Hive which discussed the prospect of Jackson helming a film starring McGann in the part. In any event, I’d be receptive to any halfway talented artist or writer working on it in substitution for the current lot- Carpenter included (although that ship sailed years ago). One of NuWho’s biggest flaws is its blatant inability to evolve, coupled with the fundamental fan-obsessive nature of those running it. Someone approaching the series purely from the perspective of a writer/producer attempting to write something *worthwhile* or original would be a step up from the current shower. He is a huge Doctor Who fan. He named his company after a villain in The Face of Evil, has openly said Sylvester McCoy is his favourite Doctor and hired him in The Hobbit for that reason and yes there were talks of him doing an episode in the Peter Capaldi era, and he even did a short video with Capaldi. On top of that he also in his vast collection has two Daleks, a 60s one and a 00s one. I'm sure he would do a version of it and his style would be perfect for DW. Jackson is one of these guys whose imagination and attention to detail is so great that he works best when given something with a huge lore and concepts, like Lord of the Rings. That said however as seen with his stellar Kong, which has some of the best world building I've ever seen, Jackson can also expand on a story too, though at times this can also be his downfall. The Hobbit for instance was him trying to expand on what should have been a simple story that overall didn't work. (There are also some who would argue the same for his version of Kong, though I disagree.) DW meanwhile would fit him perfectly with this in mind. Think of what his fine attention to detail would do for planets like Skaro. The petrified jungle, the mutants, the look of the Dalek city? He and his weta workshops team would be in heaven! To be honest I think DW should finish on tv and come back as a series of films for a while? Why not? It's the one market that it hasn't conquered? I think personally they should do a trilogy directed by Jackson, with a new Doctor. Don't say what incarnation he is at first (but later have him casually mention being on his 9th life.) Have the first movie be about him fighting Daleks on a far away planet, then for the next adapt Scratchman (imagine what Jackson would do with its visuals) then do a pseudo historical, maybe Cybermen in ancient Rome? That would make a great trilogy, that would severe the show from new who and the Fitzroy crowd's toxic fanbase. The next series could then easily take place after that. |
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 25, 2024 9:06:48 GMT
How about this: Lindsay Anderson as producer with Malcolm McDowell as the Doctor? Or Lars Von Trier as producer with Stellan Skarsgård as the Doctor? Or Hitchcock as producer with James Stewart as the Doctor? Or Mel Brooks producing with Gene Wilder as the Doctor? Mind you, I think the “Blazing Saddles” Doctor has already been discussed on here… I tell you what: Thinking up these implausible scenarios is far more entertaining than discussing the current series is. 🤣 That's what I've been saying for years. That's where my alternate sequel story Fire of the Daleks came about actually. I thought how cool it would have been to see the Doctor played by Dylan Moran with Dana DeLorenzo as the companion, and so I finally thought "why not write a story with that type of Doctor and companion" LOL. Personally though I'm sorry to say I find James Stewart a bit overrated and can see him being a Tennant style Doctor, emo, wimpy and too human. Malcolm McDowell meanwhile when he was much older in say the 90s would be an absolutely inspired choice for the role. Dear god think of what a cool thing that would be for Trekkies and DW fans LMAO. |
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Post by rushy on Mar 25, 2024 9:12:10 GMT
Isn't Jackson so rich that he could literally buy Dr Who?
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Post by Bernard Marx on Mar 25, 2024 9:18:32 GMT
Personally though I'm sorry to say I find James Stewart a bit overrated and can see him being a Tennant style Doctor, emo, wimpy and too human. I partly jest when I make these suggestions. I’m throwing ideas out for the sake of it- some work, some are deliberately or inadvertently batshit. He’s great in Vertigo but that characterisation wouldn’t suit the Doctor at all. I’d bloody hate to see Von Trier produce it too! |
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Post by Spark Doll King on Mar 25, 2024 12:42:32 GMT
Someone on Reddit had the silly idea to ask if there was any forced positivity around Ncuti and his first story.
Two guesses how well that went down.
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Post by UncleDeadly on Mar 25, 2024 13:20:43 GMT
Personally though I'm sorry to say I find James Stewart a bit overrated and can see him being a Tennant style Doctor, emo, wimpy and too human. I partly jest when I make these suggestions. You'd have to be; he's f*cking dead... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2024 13:27:18 GMT
It's so anodyne, it lacks any style. Whatever flair RTD might once have had has been eroded away by the conveniences of contemporary production and the corporate overwatch's transfixion with "clean"-looking cinematography. Say what you want about the original Eccleston/Tennant run, at least it was visually distinctive and to an extent stylised. There's none of that here. I'm gonna say it, the white TARDIS with its intermittent monochrome lighting is disgusting, by far the worst design ever. Sure, the Classic TARDISes were white too, but they also had shape to them, notions of artisanship with the columns, the console, even the roundels. They also benefitted from being smaller, more intimate spaces. The new one is just a big circular room, lacking in any distinct structure. The TV movie understood that you couldn't do the white schtick in a large atrium because the whole thing would just come across amorphous and bland.
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 25, 2024 15:31:34 GMT
It's so anodyne, it lacks any style. Whatever flair RTD might once have had has been eroded away by the conveniences of contemporary production and the corporate overwatch's transfixion with "clean"-looking cinematography. Say what you want about the original Eccleston/Tennant run, at least it was visually distinctive and to an extent stylised. There's none of that here. I'm gonna say it, the white TARDIS with its intermittent monochrome lighting is disgusting, by far the worst design ever. Sure, the Classic TARDISes were white too, but they also had shape to them, notions of artisanship with the columns, the console, even the roundels. They also benefitted from being smaller, more intimate spaces. The new one is just a big circular room, lacking in any distinct structure. The TV movie understood that you couldn't do the white schtick in a large atrium because the whole thing would just come across amorphous and bland. Agreed. As much as we may have disagreed with his choices at certain points, there was at least an enthusiasm and a desire to do good stories behind the work of RTD circa 2005-2009. Now it really is just all about the money, his ego and reshaping it to be entirely to his liking. He honestly doesn't give a shit about what he churns out, as long as it fulfills those requirements. The resolution to the Doctor/Donna subplot was a prime example of this. I never liked that story to be clear, but before at least it was meant to be a big epic, tragic story about her losing her memories and identity, yet the resolution to it in the 60th was literally she can just choose not to use them and be completely okay LOL. You'd think that would have occurred to her when she was literally dying back in Journey's End and still wanting to cling onto the power and memories even if it meant death before he stepped in, but apparently not. That big dramatic moment for new who fans has lost its umph, just so RTD can stick in a clumsy metaphor about the Doctor being a trans character and a dig at male viewers to show how "woke" he is. RTD doesn't even care about his own stories if he can undermine them to score brownie points. |
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