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Tenerife Weekly - 16th August 2013 - 22nd August 2013
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By Marc Craig
Blue New Who?
November 1963! A lifelong fan, it was revealed in the book “The Official Doctor Who Fan Club Volume One”, that the 14-year-old Capaldi was so desperate to run the club, he harassed Production staff until Producer Barry Letts’ secretary Sarah Newman wrote in a letter to the fan club’s teenage President Keith Miller: “I wish the Daleks or someone would exterminate him or something to that effect.” Of winning the role Peter gushed: “Being asked to play The Doctor is an amazing privilege. “Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can’t wait to get started.” The 50th Anniversary in November which will be Matt Smith’s swan song, will feature classic Who monsters the Zygons- 38 years after their first appearance, as well as Billie Piper,back as Rose, and David Tennant - not as THE 10th Doctor, but the clone Doctor from the episode “Journeys end”.
Classic Monsters we want back!! Speculation on who will play the 12th Doctor ended last week when it was announced “The Thick of it” actor Peter Capaldi had accepted the role.
The actor, famous for playing Malcolm Tucker, the foul-mouthed spin doctor from BBC 2’s political satirical series is unlikely to turn the air as blue as the Tardis doors when he takes over from Matt Smith at the end of the year, given the family oriented content of the much loved Timelord series which celebrates its 50th anniversary later this year. The choice of Capaldi, 55, ends the trend of casting increasingly younger actors after each regeneration, which began when the show was re-launched with Christopher Eccleston who was cast in 2005, aged 41. He was followed later that same year by David Tennant, 34, who played the Doctor for almost 5 years until the current 11th Doctor, Matt Smith took over at the tender age of 27-leading many to speculate that the production may have gone even younger this time, and recently fantasy novelist and Who Producer claimed a young black actor who he wouldn’t name had turned the role down. Instead, Capaldi shares the record of being the oldest actor to debut as the Doctor since original Doctor Who, William Hartnell back in
Of course there will always be Daleks and Cybermen episodes and New Who has revived many classics, like Sontarans and recently The Ice Warriors-but what about these classics? Krynoids- alien plant thingys from a Tom Baker 6 parter,”The Seeds of Doom”, were a nod to the movie “The Thing” and could telepathically control plant life.
Timelord outcast would make a great nemesis for the Doctor with the right actress-Helen Mirren has expressed interest in playing a Who villain!! The Celestial Toymaker-a bored immortal who creates entire fantasy worlds for his amusement, an adversary of the Doctors for longer than the Daleks, unfortunately original actor Michael Gough died in 2011,but with the right actor and some creepy toys, he could make a great villain!
The Clue’s in the Title Bruce!!
I had to laugh when I came across this bit of movie news!
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Giant Spiders from Metebelis III- I still remember a picture from a Doctor Who Annual of one of these crawling up Sarah Jane’s back, would seriously freak out arachnophobics, and their insane leader “The Great One” would be great with a guest celebrity voice! Nimons- A nice touch that one of these Bull headed aliens was the Minotaur of Greek Mythology! The Rani- Basically the female equivalent of The Master, this evil mad scientist and
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease.
During contract negotiations for the upcoming 3rd instalment of Sly Stallone’s “let’s get every 80’s action hero ever into one movie franchise”, also known as “The Expendables”, Hollywood legend Bruce Willis - obviously ignoring the movie’s title decided to demand a million dollars a day - 4 million dollars for 4 days work, but Stallone and the producers on the movie-who had already offered the “Die Hard” star $3m promptly rejected the fee demands and hired none other than Han Solo/Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford as a replacement!! Stallone later made headlines after he tweeted; “greedy and lazy-a sure formula for career failure”, an obvious dig at Willis. An insider in an interview
with “the Hollywood Reporter” said; “I think he was pretty surprised he was replaced in 72 hours by Harrison Forda better actor, a much nicer person and a more interesting direction for the film.” Willis’s recent movies have been fairly poorly received with “A Good Day To Die Hard”, “GI Joe 2” and “Red 2” all getting a critical panning,
whilst, with the expected, imminent, official announcement of his return as Han Solo and the highly anticipated “Enders Game” out soon, Ford is hotter than ever. Ford will join other newcomers Wesley Snipes and Jackie Chan and -in another coup, Mel Gibson (as the movie’s villain) in “Expendables 3”, out August 2014.