*Originally posted by magdalene *

**The problem with a Dr. Who movie is that it’s almost impossible to do a campy send-up of a cult hit (or comic book, or sci-fi story) while simultaneously creating a compelling story with interesting characters that we care about. Most of these films fail do do either, ending up with a mishmosh that pleases no one. The X-Men film chose the latter, creating a serious world that it believed in utterly without a lot of wink-wink/nudge-nudge catering to the long-time fans. How would you do that with something as low budget and campy as Dr. Who? I like Czarcasm’s casting. **

Easy; Don’t make it low budget or campy.

The WORST thing you could possibly do is try to make a movie out of the TV show. That’s what does in most movies that are derived from other visual media, and that’s why “X-Men” worked; they took the concept and the characters and made a MOVIE out of it. Even then I thought it was too cartoonish.

My X-Men movie, starring Tim Roth - sorry, but he’s a better actor than Alan Rickman, you’ll be amazed what he’d do with the role - would be a dead serious, big-budget, knock-your-socks off action spectacular. It wouldn’t be like the TV show, but it wouldn’t BE the TV show. It would be a different telling, a different story involving the same characters.

My one joke about the TV show would be to steal magdalene’s idea; the Doctor, Sarah-Jane (Ably played by Kate Winslet - Lucy Lawless, good Lord no!) K-9 and a cute moppet for added sympathetic effect would be fleeing from the first Daleks you see and come to a flight of stairs. The Doctor, with a wink, would say “Ha, those wheeled contraptions won’t catch us up here” and would climb the stairs. The Daleks would come roaring around the corner, screaming “EXTERMINATE!” (in the voice of Harry Czerny) and bump and mill around at the bottom of the stairs while Dr. Who peered around a corner at the top, laughing… and then suddenly the Daleks, like Transformers, would change form, unfolding into hideous, bipedal monsters with articulated arms that look as if they have nasty-ass weapons on them, and they’d come crashing up the stairs like linebackers, resulting in another terrific chase. Man, that would be great.

Another possible play on the show; have TWO female sidekicks, one played by Kate Winslet, the other by Julia Stiles. Their names: Sarah and Jane. Just once during the movie Dr. Who will say, “Sarah, Jane, come here.”

I’ve changed by mind about the composer of the original score, though; instead of Danny Elfman, I want Carter Burwell.