CaptainWaggett

Supposedly Eddie Izzard was one of the three possibles for the casting of the 9th Doctor (the other being Alan Cumming) but neither of them wanted to spend 9 months of the year in Cardiff. Presumably had either been cast, we'd have had a rather different Captain Jack

Harleybloke

If it's a girly, Keira K or David Suchet if it's a bloke!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

alan french

Hi Whovians.
Actual fact Richard E. Grant portrayed the Doctor in a send up for charity as well as in voice form for an animated cartoon. So I think he should have a go if his cartoon image does not fit in with the so far TV incarnations. A subtle one would be Roger Daltry of The Who . He could then sing Talking About My Regeneration. On this note I think I had better sign off.
Alan French.

Marky B

David Bowie?
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

dremble wedge

They wanted Bowie to play a villain in the mid-80s adventure The Caves of Androzani. Christopher Gable ended up doing it.

If there is to be a new Who soon I think Captain W's point about spending 9 months in Cardiff is the main one to consider, therefore he (or she!) isn't going to be that big.

Marky B

I liked Christopher Eccleston and I was sorry when he left. Now I just think the programme is over promoted (especially in the Radio Times) and I don't give two hoots who takes over.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

716Jones

Oh God, no, not Keira Knightly, surely someone with some acting talent.

DB7

Eccleston was a good choice to reintroduce the franchise but a feature actor like him or Carlyle (another candidate) are probably always going to get a film offer that will tempt them away.

Tennant has proven a fine successor, altho this latest series run is pretty mediocre and Tate's recruitment hasn't helped.

jamesharris

Izzard was in the frame when RTD brought it back but ruled himself out as he thought the scripts were terrible...

batman

... and nowhere near as good as the script for The Avengers film.

I wish I had claws.

Lord Brett

I thought Eddie had the best dialogue in the entire film.

smudge

Yes, 'cause he was saying what we all thought....

The best sequences of that film - the most Avengerlike - were the training village and the teddy bears board meeting. I particularly liked the bit with the teds in the lifts.

If he'd been better partnered, Fiennes might just about have squeaked past the post with Steed - Broadbent was a rather good Mother - but Thurman just gabbled her lines as if she was in a hurry to get the last train home. Some of her dialogue, delivered properly, with a little thought, a la Rigg, would also have passed muster, but she made it sound like gobbledegook. I am thinking particularly of the 'tick follows tock' sequence in the padded cell. We tuned into this on SKY recently and I found myself hearing the dialogue, as Rigg might have done it, in my head.

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

jamesharris

the Avengers was doomed from the moment Thurman was cast.Gwyneth Paltrow- the original choice- would have worked.
In addition the original script was superb.

ThomasC