If there ever was a franchise that was perfectly suited for a film adaptation, it was Doctor Who. The British sci-fi series has basically been rolling out feature-length films with every double episode or Christmas special that they've done, though these outings have only been shown on the small screen and never on the big one.
That's about to change, it seems. That is, according to former Who actress Billie Piper. Though Piper has stated she is done with the franchise, she obviously is still in the know about something. Piper, who is currently starring in the series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, appeared on the Scot Mills Show and confirmed a Doctor Who film with four simple words: "They are doing it."
Those four simple words that will undoubtedly begin a flurry of fan speculation as to what the film will be about, which Doctor it will focus on, which companion will be featured alongside the Doctor, which alien will serve as the villain, and many more questions like that.
To me, it seems obvious that the film will center upon Matt Smith's eleventh incarnation of the Doctor. Though Tennant has been reported as the star of the picture, his story has already been completed with "The End of Time," while Smith's has only just begun. As much as I love Tennant, it's time for a solid, universal changeover between Doctors. The same thing goes for Rose Tyler (Piper), who I feel has run her course as a character. It's time to move on, people!
As for the villain of the film, I think the most obvious choice lies with one of the iconic creatures, such as the Daleks or the Cybermen. (Though, if the creators of the film really wanted to win my respect, they'd use a completely new monster, or one of Stephen Moffat's wonderful creations like the Weeping Angels).
No release date, or anything other than "They're doing it," has been confirmed about the film, which seems likely to go into production after work on series 5 of Who is finished.
There is no movie happening.'They've' been doing a movie since around 1987 – it's not happening.
Billie is sounding off What does she know?
This how rumours get started. Someone makes a comment based on supposition or wishful thinking, one news outlet prone to rumour-mongering takes the comment out of all context and insists that it is proof that something is happening, and then a dozen other news outlets (prone to rumour-mongering or otherwise) uncritically report it as truth ("because so-and-so reported that this person said it was fact"). It's BS. As Piper has said in other interviews, she's no longer considered part of DW's future, and she hasn't been in a position to know what the producers are up to for at least three years. How many times does everyone else in the universe have to state uncategorically that there is NO DW movie before you believe it?
There was even the Doctor Who Movie that TOm Baker was working on, "Doctor Who Meets Scratchman with Vincent Price attached,. So I don't believe it for now. Plus just because Billie Piper says so, they might even have a script, but that doesn't mean that it will be done. Remember the Red Dwarf feature that everyone connected with the show was going to do, they even had a start date that got pushed off too many times and has to this day not been made. They don't even talk about it anymore. So I'll only beleive it when it starts shooting.
Will never happen and if it did, then David Tennant wouldn't be welcome. Matt Smith is The Doctor now, unless I'm mistaken and have been living in a fridge for the past year.