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Moffat: Matt is "not going" and will back after filming the Ryan Gosling movie.
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Steven Moffat said at the BFI that Matt Smith is "not going" and will back after filming the Ryan Gosling movie.
https://twitter.com/BlogtorWho/statu...62708744450048
Seems there is yet another production break straight after filming the anniversary ep, think we can safely rule out 8A airing this year. So much for two years straight production.
He'll definitely be gone, or at least announced to be going, before the year is out:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=63979946&highlight=12th#post63979946
http://www.darkbunnytees.com/doctor-who/
https://twitter.com/BlogtorWho/statu...62708744450048
Seems there is yet another production break straight after filming the anniversary ep, think we can safely rule out 8A airing this year. So much for two years straight production.
He'll definitely be gone, or at least announced to be going, before the year is out:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=63979946&highlight=12th#post63979946
http://www.darkbunnytees.com/doctor-who/
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Secondly, they say he isn't leaving and your response is he is?? Not only possibly, but definitely?? Explain your logic.
A secret so sacred even the merchandising people are in the loop?
That just makes me believe he's leaving more.
Believe what you like, it was a light hearted, good humoured bit of a chatter off the cuff and not in response to any questions on the topic. I tend to feel that as I was there I am better placed to judge the context of the conversation than you, with all due respect.
I believe he's leaving. At some point. Name me one other Doctor actor who hasn't, at some point, left. Predicting that the actor will at some point resign hardly requires second sight.
Moffat said he'd be back after the movie. So looks like he will do at least one more story after the anniversary. And possibly many more. But Moffat hasn't said anything about how many. So even if Matt does push off before making a full 2014 series, it wouldn't contradict anything Moffat said.
Things may be fluid. Matt might want to go to Hollywood asap and at the same time regret having to leave behind this excellent role. Or contract negotiations etc might go the way of him staying. Which I'm sure he'd be very happy about too.
But as far as what Moffat said - he's returning after the movie.
Better to try to accommodate those requirements than to lose that actor and have to search fro a suitable replacement (and have to rethink/rewrite scripts and storylines).
Here we go again ........ :yawn:
. All Matt has to do is come back after the movie and do one more thing and Moffat will have been correct and not at all misleading
The thing on many peoples minds is whether he'll be doing a full series 8. Moffat recently told us that they don't really want to tell us much more about the future until series 7b has aired. So he is being consistent by letting us know that Matt has not resigned, but won't go into detail....yet.
I prefer the current approach. Better for Moffat to say "we will provide further info in the summer" and keep relatively quiet otherwise. Which is better than last years pulse raising hyperbole.
When has Moffat lied to us with Sherlock..?
Indeedy, because he has. And been twistedly evasive to boot.:D
Apparently the role he's bagged isn't that time-consuming, so it wouldn't be a massive commitment for Matt to do Gosling's movie then come back.
Technically, Paul McGann never resigned or left the role...
Damn! I carefully used "left the role", being mindful of Colin and Bill's situations. But in Paul's case the role left him. Unless you mean the way he (and all the living classic doctors) seem to be currently playing the role on audio..... in which case the only way out of the role is to be six feet under. Or Christopher Eccleston.
But don't forget that Christopher Eccleston has categorically denied any involvement with the fiftieth anniversary mini series with almost certainly means that he will be back to do that...err..I think?
We all might be surprised in a few weeks. Who knows?
And hopefully his memory of how all that went for him is why he currently appears to be saying more restrained and straightforward things.
Also, McCoy was only asked back at the behest of Philip Segal, so that was also a close thing with the end of his time in the role too.
Oh yes. In fact Eccleston has said the most certain things about never doing it again (not bathing in the same river twice - which I think was him garbling a different sentiment but never mind).
So - his absolute denials lead me to think that Matt is indeed leaving and will regenerate into the twelfth Doctor....Christopher Eccleston.