Doctor Who showrunner and David Tennant film the classic comic character in detail for the 60th anniversary

Doctor who Showrunner Russell T Davies and star David Tennant talk about bringing a classic 1970s comic character to TV screens. Tennant and Catherine Tate will direct three 60th anniversary specials, featuring the new 14th incarnation of the Doctor is reunited with his former companion Donna Noble. The first episode of the 60th anniversary will air on November 25 with ‘The Star Beast’.

If Doctor who With the 60th anniversary celebrations starting soon, Davies and Tennant made a special appearance on the BBC broadcast. The only performance to promote upcoming specials, in which host Alex Jones asked about the inspiration behind Episode 1, “The Star Beast.” Both Davies and Tennant have spoken of their own appreciation of 1979. Doctor Who weekly comic book for the showrunner explains how he approached the Beep the Meep character. Below are Davies and Tennant’s responses:

Russell T. Davies: Yes, that’s right. Many years ago, in 1979, a fantastic Doctor Who comic book was published, written by Pat Mills, drawn by Dave Gibbons, the titan of the comics industry, about a little alien, the cute boy, who falls victim to Earth. . Being lost, wanting to go home and making friends with the kids at school. You’d think it was stolen from ET, but it was printed two years before ET. Actually, it precedes it, it’s a great story. When I came back, I thought, “Why don’t we make a really brilliant story into a movie?”

David Tennant: I remember reading it! I remember getting Doctor Who Weekly as a kid. When I opened the script I thought, “Adapted from “The-?” “I remember!”.

Davies: It’s part of the fun of it. Meep is a beautiful creature, so innocent, so sweet and so charming, and all you want is to save him. Where are the toys? Where are the hugs? But my job is to make these things work and connect them to the story of Donna, who starts seeing aliens and remembers, “What’s going on?” You do this in a dovetail shape and a mixture is created.

Doctor Who has a long history of adapting extended media for television

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“The Star Beast” is not the first story of Doctor whoDavies will bring extensive media to the screen. In the first season, the showrunner’s first Dalek story was heavily inspired by Robert Shearman’s 2003 Sixth Doctor radio drama Jubilee. Although the television story was set in the near future on Earth rather than in an alternate dystopian time timeline, both stories had concerning the respective Doctors followed a signal that turned out to be the only surviving Dalek from a bloody war on Earth. that the doctor was involved.

In season three’s two-part story, “Human Nature/The Family of Blood,” Davies brought back a different story Doctor who“Wild Years” on the big screen. The story is adapted from the 1995 novel by Paul Cornell. human nature. Although the Tenth Doctor’s motivations for becoming human differ from those of the Seventh Doctor in the original novel, the two stories are incredibly similar. Both the television story and the original novel received short stories written by Cornell in the 2020s. Doctor Who lockdown Surveillance shows that both shootings somehow still occurred in the city Doctor who Universe.

While Beep the Meep may be a surprising character in the main television series, it’s clear that Davies and Tennant have great admiration for the source material. Davies’ discussions about including the story in Donna’s new arc promise that astute viewers will still be surprised, even if they know where Meep comes from. So The Star Beast’s 60th anniversary adaptation is both a perfect introduction for a casual audience and a welcome party. Doctor whoFor fans of the family, it is a thing of the past.

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