{"id":19132,"date":"2011-12-02T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T08:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=19132"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:13:28","slug":"doctor-who-movie-wont-be-a-reboot-says-steven-moffat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-movie-wont-be-a-reboot-says-steven-moffat\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who movie won&#8217;t be a reboot says Steven Moffat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19133\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-movie-wont-be-a-reboot-says-steven-moffat\/attachment\/matt-smith-doctor-who\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19133\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"Matt Smith Doctor Who\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Matt-Smith-Doctor-Who-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Smith Doctor Who\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Matt-Smith-Doctor-Who-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Matt-Smith-Doctor-Who-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Matt-Smith-Doctor-Who-616x462.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Matt-Smith-Doctor-Who.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After a long silence punctuated only by snide asides, current <em>Doctor Who<\/em> showrunner Steven Moffat has made his first unambiguous statement regarding <em>Harry Potter<\/em> director David Yates&#8217; proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/doctor-who-movie-from-david-yates-are-you-excited\/\">Doctor Who movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/steven_moffat\">Moffat<\/a> on Twitter, &#8220;star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot. David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff, on a red carpet. You&#8217;ve seen the rubbish I talk when I&#8217;m cornered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of red carpets, <a href=\"http:\/\/splashpage.mtv.com\/2011\/12\/01\/david-yates-talks-doctor-who-movie\/\">MTV News<\/a> got the following out of Yates at the BAFTAs, &#8220;We&#8217;re principally looking for a writer, and we&#8217;ll start with that. Everything has to start with a great script, so that&#8217;s more important than [casting].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Casting? Red carpet? Who do we believe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat says Harry Potter David Yates&#8217; movie won&#8217;t be &#8220;a Hollywood reboot&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":19133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,140,3],"tags":[319,143,82,612],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Matt-Smith-Doctor-Who.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}