Matt Smith doubts 'Doctor Who' movie role
Published Jul 20 2012, 16:33 BST | By Morgan Jeffery
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New rumours of a film based on the BBC sci-fi drama emerged in November last year, with Harry Potter's David Yates reportedly attached to direct.
"I think it would take four or five years to get something like that off the ground, and I don't anticipate that I'll be playing the Doctor then," Smith told Collider. "My skin and the aging process couldn't take it."
He added: "For my money, whoever is playing the Doctor should be in the movie. I don't think there should be two Doctors."
However, Smith insisted that a Doctor Who film could work, suggesting that current showrunner Steven Moffat should script the feature.
"I don't see any reason why it couldn't work," said the 29-year-old. "I think they should get Steven to write it because he's the best."
Doctor Who will return to BBC One in August.
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I'd love to see a film but only if it's canon,isn't a remake of Doctor Who and stars the current Doctor. It should be a high budget 3D one about the Master going back in time to when the Doctor was born and trying to kill the baby Doctor so the Doctor never exists.
July 23rd 2012 at 6:46pm
I find it confusing that they say the Doctor does not age, especially when the 11th Doctor went off for two hundred years and came back completely the same. If that is the case, then why was the first Doctor old??
July 23rd 2012 at 4:20pm
That is easy to get around. The first Doctor was the first Doctor we ever saw, but obviously we need to believe that there were many more before him. So, the first Doctor on TV clearly regenerated as an old man, the Doctor can technically rengenerate into many forms, whether that is old or young. So, the next Doctor could potentially be an old man again.
July 24th 2012 at 9:50am
He Regenerates 12 times, 13 incarnations so the first is the first and there was none before. He was old when the series began because he wasn't on adventures getting killed all the time - He looked after himself more in seclusion in the Junkyard
July 25th 2012 at 10:20am(+1 like)
So in actual fact the new series completely got it wrong by not ageing Matt Smith's face through two hundred years. It's hardly accepted as Canon with the evidence stated.
July 25th 2012 at 10:22am(+1 like)
But Time Lords age slower, and we could presume the First Doctor may have been 400. But then, when River Song regenerated she said she could slow her aging backwards bit by bit, AND the Tenth Doctor said that in the beginning he "always wanted to be old and important" so he may have accelerated his own aging process.
Not too difficult to comprehend.
July 25th 2012 at 12:23pm
In the Sound of Drums The Master was shown AS A child meaning The Doctor, automatically would've also began as a child growing up. Tom Baker's Doctor numerously commented on when he was younger calling himself one hundred and blah de blah when he was a young man - you get the picture, that's less than two hundred years that The Doctor grew from a child into an elderly figure, and maybe the Doctor as a child, was very grumpy - rebellious to steal a time machine and acting important. so fact still stands, in 200 years his face would have actually aged
July 25th 2012 at 7:46pm
As much as I genuinely love Moffat for bringing us River Song, I wouldn't want him to write the film. For one, he thinks the companion is the main character and that's a problem because I don't happen to give a crap about Ron and Hermio...I mean Amy and Rory or that guy from Gavin & Stacey, or whoever else he's got lined up to fight alien monsters with the Doctor. It's the Doctor's own human side and his relationship with fellow protagonists that needs to be stimulating, which keeps those of us who aren't only watching for the gooey aliens entertained. Companions need to be relatable and have a personality - like Donna and River, not some dopey couple or James Corden. But the Doctor is "in a relationship" now, which complicates things. I hope that River isn't ignored in the next series simply because of some viewers' disdain, because she's an important person in the Doctor's life now and the show should be about HIM.
July 23rd 2012 at 1:29am(+1 like)
I like Amy and Rory and to be honest,Steven Moffat does have a point when it comes to the new series. The new era of Doctor Who has always focused a lot on the companions. One good example is Rose. Even in the classic series,though,they focused quite a lot on the companions. In "An unearthly child",you see more of Ian and Barbara than the Doctor.
July 23rd 2012 at 6:58pm
I'd love to see Benedict Cumberbatch as the Doctor in a feature film.
July 21st 2012 at 9:12pm
Steve John Shepherd shoots him right down for the role.
July 21st 2012 at 10:17pm(+1 like)
A Doctor Who movie from scratch and introducing a new actor (After Matt Smith?) would be the best reboot to put Britain as a film icon into global perspective, so long as it was produced and written by a new but British team after Steven Moffat's reign. I say this because the current form the series is in now is mixed and divided and overly fan-based that it no longer stands so clearly or strongly defined so much as it was in 2005 to 2008, let alone back in the 1970's when it was at the height of it's power. Ultimately it would work because you have a Time Machine that can go anywhere and everywhere -you have a hero that recreates himself for a new audience to learn of, and it was once a Scary British Original Science Fiction programme that back in the day 10 million on average would watch... when a new head writer takes over, a feature film with a new Doctor would return everything it's ever lost :) my opinion anyways...
July 21st 2012 at 6:43pm(+1 like)
You have to remember that 10 million watched back then because there were only 3 channels. Doctor Who is currently getting an average of 8 million which is incredible considering there's thousands of channels and on demand services. It's only divided on places like this. The majority of people are enjoying it.
July 22nd 2012 at 12:34pm(+2 likes)
It sounds the complete opposite from everyone around me here and online truthfully, it's much too fanbased and not the taste of it's original audience target- which was the public and families, and for that spot the plots are too complicated and rushed to be given a damn of. Doctor Who once delivered Fear and Scariness in spades, and it's not even there anymore aside from Silence and Weeping Angels being overused and shown off too much - again, to be given a flying bacon sandwich of.
July 22nd 2012 at 11:17pm(+1 like)
"It's not even there anymore" - how old are you? Doctor Who isn't likely to scare anyone over the age of 12, even in its "classic" years. Rose tinted glasses.
July 23rd 2012 at 12:36pm
A "Doctor Who movie from scratch" would totally ruin Doctor Who. It'd lose the continuity. Any Doctor Who movie should fit in with the current series and should definatley not be done from scratch.
July 23rd 2012 at 7:01pm(+1 like)