For several years now, the idea of a new Doctor Who theatrical movie has been tossed around publicly; most fans seem to want it, but producers can’t work out the logistics of how to get it done while maintaining the series. Well, while that debate still rages, one of the Doctor’s oldest allies is headlining his own theatrical movie. Everyone’s favorite robotic dog will star in K9: Timequake, a major motion picture slated for release in 2017!
What’s more, K9 will be taking on one of the Doctor’s biggest enemies when he hits the big screen: the renegade Time Lord Omega! Like the 2009-10 Australian K9 series, the new movie will not be produced by BBC, so any connections to Doctor Who will be minimal and vague. Writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin created both K9 and Omega and hold the copyrights to both characters (though with Martin’s passing in 2007, Baker controls the full rights now).
Here are full details on the new movie from Doctor Who TV:
"K9, the world’s most famous robot dog traverses the dimensions of space and time to become the latest robot star of the big screen!Having made his TV debut nearly forty years ago in the 1977 Doctor Who TV serial “The Invisible Enemy” K9 went on to become one of the most iconic characters from the BBC series.A new look high tech K9 for today’s cinema is being prepared for film stardom.The film “K9-TIMEQUAKE” has been written by one of K9’s original creators; Bob Baker, a renowned writer of classic Doctor Who serials. Bob went on to co-write with Nick Park the Oscar and Bafta winning Wallace & Gromit series of film shorts as well as the feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.The new K9 will be appearing in a multi-million dollar movie which promises to be a great action adventure set in deep space. The film will be full of dashing heroes and heroines, androids, monstrous aliens and an ultimate foe who will also be familiar to Doctor Who fans everywhere; the megalomaniac OMEGA.More from Doctor WhoNcuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who Christmas special is a “complete reinvention”Ncuti Gatwa is “so nervous” to take on Doctor Who roleThe Doctor and Donna are better than ever in “Wild Blue Yonder”Take the Black: House of the Dragon season 2 trailer hints, the Fallout show, and moreJodie Whittaker didn’t pick up on any of the hate for her version of the DoctorThe film is to be a UK co-production with exteriors filmed overseas and studio work planned for the UK.K9 is the perfect character to star in a movie with a whole new bunch of action heroes making this a home grown Star Wars come Guardians of the Galaxy style cinema must see film.The film is currently slated for release in 2017 which will be K9’s fortieth birthday!"
It may not be Doctor Who exactly, but it’s still exciting to see some fragment of the franchise making its way to the big screen. Now if they could just get Tom Baker to cameo…
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