'Doctor Who' Season 9: Steven Moffat Answers Movie Questions, Will The Time Lord Head To Theaters? [VIDEO]
Doctor Who's Twelfth Doctor will stay squarely on your TV and out of the cinema.
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The iconic BBC program isn't eyeing a movie - at least not at the moment - and the answer is less obvious than one might think. Time crunch and filming schedules aside, it turns out the current Doctor Who storyline is not allowed to make the jump to the big screen.
"I don't think there is one," showrunner Steven Moffat explained to Entertainment Weekly in regards to potential plans for the TARDIS to materialize in your local theater. "No one has ever squared the circle on that. How do we do this? How do we do it without leaching from the television series-which we're not allowed to do, because Doctor Who is public funded? If it's going to be a different Doctor, are we going to try and sell two Doctors at the same time? I know there's been loads of Doctors, but there's only been one at a time. You don't have a James Bond on television and one in the cinema. If he's the same guy, then when are we going to make that?"
Should there be two Doctors - and two entirely separate storylines - at the same time? That sounds like a paradox, and no one wants the beasts from "Fathers Day" to touch down across the globe.
However, a pass on the big screen doesn't preclude another extra-long Doctor Who episode a la "The Day of the Doctor" (see video below).
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Find out more when Doctor Who returns to the BBC and BBC America this fall.
