my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film-Yak   » Christopher Eccleston is new Doctor Who (Page 1)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2

Author Topic: Christopher Eccleston is new Doctor Who Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-20-2004 06:08 AM                        Announced today http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3552087.stm Eccleston is new Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston will become the ninth Doctor Who Shallow Grave actor Christopher Eccleston has been named as the new Doctor Who to front the cult BBC sci-fi show when it returns next year. Eccleston, who starred alongside Nicole Kidman in the horror movie The Others, will be the ninth TV Time Lord to control the Tardis in a 13-part series. The 40-year-old has starred in Flesh and Blood, The Second Coming, and TV series Our Friends in the North. The BBC said the Salford-born actor would take "a fresh, modern approach". 'Edgy and eccentric' Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, said: "We are delighted to have cast an actor of such calibre in one of British television's most iconic roles. It's going to be a magnificent, epic, entertaining journey Russell T Davies BBC executive producer "It signals our intention to take Doctor Who into the 21st century, as well as retaining its core traditional values - to be surprising, edgy and eccentric." Executive producer and writer Russell T Davies said: "Christopher was our first choice. "His casting raises the bar for all of us. It's going to be a magnificent, epic, entertaining journey, and I can't wait to start." Previous Time Lords William Hartnell Patrick Troughton Jon Pertwee Tom Baker Peter Davison Colin Baker Sylvester McCoy Paul McGann The hugely-popular Doctor Who show ran for 26 years from 1963 and the new series will be filmed in Cardiff later this year. He first came to public attention with his portrayal of Derek Bentley in the film, Let Him Have It before notching up a wealth of TV and movie credits. He was then snapped up by Hollywood and was cast in David Cronenberg's eXistenZ with Jude Law, and Gone in Sixty Seconds with Nicholas Cage. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.  |  IP: Logged Erick Akers Arse Kicker Posts: 201 From: Dallas, TX, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 03-20-2004 03:49 PM                     My favorite Dr. Who was, and still is Tom Baker!  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 03-20-2004 06:34 PM                     Oooh, this will be great! Was the Paul McGann guy that 8th Doctor in the US TV movie in 1996? My favorite Doctor was always Jon Pertwee, followed by Tom Baker....  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-20-2004 08:40 PM                       Doctor who? What?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-20-2004 09:28 PM                        I could never get into Doctor Who. Yes, that sentence is the entire reason for my posting here today!  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-21-2004 02:53 AM                        quote: Was the Paul McGann guy that 8th Doctor in the US TV movie in 1996? yes, he was. AND THAT DOESN'T COUNT!!!! that pathetic piece of shit should be stricken from the record. interesting news, though. i was a huge fan of the show. granted, it lasted so long that it had moments of awfulness as well as brilliance, and it kind of ran itself into the ground towards the end. it'll be interesting to see what happens. could be a big mistake (like that american tv-movie version -- GOD, THAT WAS AWFUL!). carl  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-21-2004 03:33 AM                  I agree with Tim and Joe... Dr. WHO...gives a shit? I stopped watching him/it 20+ years ago! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-21-2004 04:08 AM                        You mean you actually watched it, Phil? You have issues.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-21-2004 04:19 AM                  Yes Joe, I was young and stupit! Taken in by the fluff of the world! I have since matured, grown a dick, and wise'd up and am no longer a naive 19 y/o! I now "get it". >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-21-2004 04:35 AM                        Whatevah! Talk to the hand, biotch!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-21-2004 04:39 AM                  Glad to see you Photoshopped the hair off your palm... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-21-2004 04:43 AM                        Manny already made that lame joke. I bet you were CC'd on his mass e-mail about it!  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-21-2004 04:44 AM                        Didn't it just burn off with friction!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-21-2004 04:46 AM                        See Phil? That joke is hella better!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-21-2004 04:46 AM                  Haahhahahaha... True, but Manny's email is *worth* repeating in public here cuz it's soooo true! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.