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Writers You'd Like To See Having A Go At Who
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Happy New Year!
So, here's a thought looking forward past the 50th. Which writers would you like join Who for the first time and give us an episode?
I'd go for:
Emilia Di Girolamo
Charlie Brooker
Howard Overman
Jack Thorne
Edgar Wright
(And, as much as it would never happen, Joss Whedon)
I also found it odd that Lance Parkin has never been tapped up to have a go - some of this novels are very New Who in tone and he had TV experience* on Emmerdale...
E: *Just had a look online - turns out Lance never wrote a TV episode of Emmerdale, even though he was part of the team. Shame.
So, here's a thought looking forward past the 50th. Which writers would you like join Who for the first time and give us an episode?
I'd go for:
Emilia Di Girolamo
Charlie Brooker
Howard Overman
Jack Thorne
Edgar Wright
(And, as much as it would never happen, Joss Whedon)
I also found it odd that Lance Parkin has never been tapped up to have a go - some of this novels are very New Who in tone and he had TV experience* on Emmerdale...
E: *Just had a look online - turns out Lance never wrote a TV episode of Emmerdale, even though he was part of the team. Shame.
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Have you seen Dead Set or Black Mirror?
But he wouldn't be my first choice
Dead Set is a very good comedy-drama satire, while Black Mirror is the anthology drama series he's currently show-running. Well worth looking up. May even be on 4OD.
So who would be?
With guest stars Mark Sheppard (returning as Canton), Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau. Sold. Moffat, you have your orders.
Alan Tudyk as well
Actually, couldn't Neil Gaiman do all of them? Is he too busy with other things, or would there be complaints?
Indeed. I'd love to see Brooker to the odd-episode, but as show-runner? I don't think he'd consider the job.
Out my list above, I could only see Di Girolamo, Overman or Thorne possibly rise to potential show-runner status in several years.
Jane Goldman
Joss Whedon
My three top picks
He wrote four stories for the Doctor Who Magazine in the late 70s alongside John Wagner (co-creator of Judge Dredd)
He has also written 3 adventures for the Big Finish range of audios, one of which was originally submitted for TV which, if accepted would have served as Turlough's intro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Megaptera
Rian Johnson did an amazing job all round on looper, but he'll need to tighten up his temporal cause and effect if he's going to impress hardened who fans.
I always answer this question with Charlie Kaufman as well. His mind-bending screenplays for Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are just barely Sci-Fi, but I think that the superficial differences aren't as important as the structural peculiarities which would make him so well suited to who.
Concur with the Brooker shouts. Sophie, you're in for a treat: the second two episodes of Black Mirror are fantastic. Concise one-shot sci-fi tales that remind me of classic 50's/60s twilight zone stories.
Nice.
Met him many, many years ago at a book reading. Pleasingly geeky, bless him.
Hasn't he written for The X-Files too?
Good call. I always felt that the late Sarah Kane, one of his contemporaries, had the right dark imagination too.
Terry Pratchett
Julian Jones
Adrian Hodges? Primeval?
^^^^^
Joss Whedon. No more needs to be said. Stolen Earth/Journey's End would have been the one for Whedon, big story and big cast full of completely different people.
Edgar Wright would make a crazy as hell Doctor Who episode. I love the rapid approach to his work and think his style would actually work.