{"id":23717,"date":"2011-11-14T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/the-parallel-doctor.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:49:01","slug":"the-parallel-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/the-parallel-doctor.html","title":{"rendered":"The Parallel Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way I read this announcement about a <i>Doctor Who<\/i> movie is that it will be a sideline flick &#8212; out of continuity, and, perhaps, an effective reboot (i.e., take the basic concept of a Time Lord and a TARDIS and a human companion, plus, most likely, Daleks, and make a movie about it).  <\/p>\n<p><i>Yates made clear that his movie adaptation would not follow on from the current TV series, but would take a completely fresh approach to the material. &quot;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,&quot; he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Give that this is a few years out at least (and actual TV <i>Who<\/i> is going to be thin on the ground between now and then), I&#39;ll both believe it when I see it and I won&#39;t sweat much about it being its own thing. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages1.variety.com%2Fgraphics%2Fphotos%2F_storypics%2Fyates_300.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118046098?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1&#038;cmpid=RSS%7CNews%7CLatestNews'>Yates to direct bigscreen &#39;Doctor Who&#39; &#8211; Entertainment News, Film News, Media &#8211; Variety<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;Harry Potter&quot; director David Yates is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series &quot;Doctor Who&quot; into a bigscreen franchise.. Film News from the entertainment source&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way I read this announcement about a Doctor Who movie is that it will be a sideline flick &#8212; out of continuity, and, perhaps, an effective reboot (i.e., take the basic concept of a Time Lord and a TARDIS and a human companion, plus, most likely, Daleks, and make a movie about it). Yates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/the-parallel-doctor.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Parallel Doctor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43,527],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-harry-potter","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23717,"position":0},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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