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Old 26-02-2014, 15:59
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L82uYBUDRLc

I suggested him after reading some crossover Dr Who/TBBT fanfiction...

Anyway I don't really see the point, is one of the main appeals for DW in the States is its "Britishness" why would undermine it with a US Remake? Plus there would be questions in relation to where it will fit in the world of Dr Who?

If an American Network wanted DW material so badly even after buying the orginal series, then I suggest they should focus on Torchwood...
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Old 26-02-2014, 16:20
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If Mulett doesn't mind me adding question to his thread...

Would a genuinely American version NEED the TARDIS to be an old British police call box?

If it's a genuine re-imagining, wouldn't it make far more sense to use something quintessentially American instead? If so - what should the TARDIS be?
A phonebox worked for Superman
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Old 26-02-2014, 16:21
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I've never understood the American obsession with remaking British shows. Why can't they just be satisfied with the British show?
Shows from around the world get remade all the time. The Brits do it aswell.
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Old 26-02-2014, 16:37
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There would be white teeth.

Blinding white teeth, for everyone.
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Old 26-02-2014, 16:55
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There would be white teeth.

Blinding white teeth, for everyone.
Oh God, I hadn't thought of that!
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Old 26-02-2014, 18:04
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How about Steve Carell and Jane Lynch as Doctor and companion?
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Old 26-02-2014, 18:57
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If Mulett doesn't mind me adding question to his thread...

Would a genuinely American version NEED the TARDIS to be an old British police call box? If it's a genuine re-imagining, wouldn't it make far more sense to use something quintessentially American instead? If so - what should the TARDIS be?
That is a really good question. I guess a new version of the show had the option of having a TARDIS with a fully working chameleon circuit. I can't think of a workable US equivalent for a Police Box!
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Old 26-02-2014, 21:05
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Always thought Robert Picardo (the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager), would make an excellent American Doctor
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Old 26-02-2014, 21:13
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Not quite what the title asks but one of my friends sent me this recently:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/newu456/what...-american-5pxx

It's pretty much who are The Doctor's American alter-ego's. Most of them are pretty much spot-on, the Ninth Doctor is a bit sketchy though!
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Old 26-02-2014, 21:18
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I believe that you are very nearly at the point where this could be commissioned. However, you seem to have omitted a conspiracy theory which, as you will be aware, is a requirement of all such series by the time we get to Season 4. If you could find a way to incorporate this into your summary, then I think we can safely say that a space in the schedules will be found for your new and novel idea during 2015.
Bugger I wanted to return to this thread to day to explain the details of the conspiracy in my earlier storyline, but rather bizarrely a group of chiselled face men with black suits and earpieces perfectly placed in their right earlobes appeared out of the work stationery cupboard at 11.17am today and well since then I can't seem to remember what I've been doing.

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Old 26-02-2014, 21:21
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Not quite what the title asks but one of my friends sent me this recently:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/newu456/what...-american-5pxx

It's pretty much who are The Doctor's American alter-ego's. Most of them are pretty much spot-on, the Ninth Doctor is a bit sketchy though!
Love this!! Sam Rockwell, yes! Zaphod to the Doctor, all in one package.

p.s. Can we make a British Big Bang Theory if they make an American Doctor Who?
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Old 26-02-2014, 21:24
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Love this!! Sam Rockwell, yes! Zaphod to the Doctor, all in one package.

p.s. Can we make a British Big Bang Theory if they make an American Doctor Who?
We did, it was called Red Dwarf.

Sociopath who can't get along with other people - Rimmer
More normal guy who gets cast as the 'sane' one the audience can relate to - Lister
Thinks he is a lady's man but in reality comes across as a bit of a weirdo (though with infinitely better dance moves) - Cat
Can't talk to women - Kryten
Token woman who doesn't quite fit in - Kochanski

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Old 26-02-2014, 21:55
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If Mulett doesn't mind me adding question to his thread...

Would a genuinely American version NEED the TARDIS to be an old British police call box?

If it's a genuine re-imagining, wouldn't it make far more sense to use something quintessentially American instead? If so - what should the TARDIS be?
I'd go for Captain Ahab's coffin - a nod in the direction of the American "Great Books" tradition (with a backstory to be hinted at, but never revealed), and endless scope for humorous vampire references. Moreover, a coffin is a good shape for a TARDIS. It combines compactness of form with a full-size door (the lid would have to be hinged, I suppose) when upright; if it materialised (or was laid) flat, there is scope for amusing "clambering out of TARDIS" action, as per The Ice Warriors.

And in the third Dalek story of the US version, the Daleks could pursue the travellers in a DARDIS shaped like a great white whale...
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Old 26-02-2014, 22:04
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We did, it was called Red Dwarf.

Sociopath who can't get along with other people - Rimmer
More normal guy who gets cast as the 'sane' one the audience can relate to - Lister
Thinks he is a lady's man but in reality comes across as a bit of a weirdo (though with infinitely better dance moves) - Cat
Can't talk to women - Kryten
Token woman who doesn't quite fit in - Kochanski

hehe
http://mainsite.dancemania.netdna-cd...-red-dwarf.jpg
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Old 26-02-2014, 22:05
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If Mulett doesn't mind me adding question to his thread...

Would a genuinely American version NEED the TARDIS to be an old British police call box?

If it's a genuine re-imagining, wouldn't it make far more sense to use something quintessentially American instead? If so - what should the TARDIS be?
The Americans already had a TARDIS. It was Bill and Ted's phone booth.
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Old 27-02-2014, 03:22
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If Mulett doesn't mind me adding question to his thread...

Would a genuinely American version NEED the TARDIS to be an old British police call box?

If it's a genuine re-imagining, wouldn't it make far more sense to use something quintessentially American instead? If so - what should the TARDIS be?
That's the thing, though. The police box shape is perfect for the TARDIS. Big enough to get in and out of, a convenient door that can be closed and locked, no windows through which you can see the interior. Nothing American like that comes readily to mind.
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Old 27-02-2014, 10:54
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It would be mainly set in a High School.

A new "British" girl (ie cringey fake accent) would have started at the school, and everyone would tease her for being "ugly" and "weird" and having a very British name (Susie), despite the fact that she was played by some token cute blonde, and was full of cool pop culture references, quick "witty" one-liners and a - shudder - "sassy" attitude.

The school's main jock, Ian, and his cheerleader girlfriend Vicki (played by some of the weird interchangeable plastic-faced twenty-somethings off of all those interminable CW shows) would tease Susie a lot for being ugly and not sassy, and one day would chase her to the janitor's room, unaware that her Grandfather (who she would henceforth call "Pops" because f*** us, right?) was the school janitor.

In the janitor's room they would discover the TARDIS, which looks like a Police Box because the execs making the show think that this is what every TARDIS looks like, and meet The Doctor (Charles Dance in the sole British piece of casting). Before you know it, aliens are invading the school, and Susie [who, incidentally, gets top billing in the opening credits, which play over an electric guitar version of the Who theme - Charles Dance gets the "And... As Doctor Who" at the end of the credits] takes them on, with Ian and Vicki reluctantly in tow.

The four turn out to be quite the team, even though Ian is comically stupid and serves as the punchline a lot of the time. Vicki turns out to be not quite as much of a bitch as cheerleaders are supposed to be according to television, and becomes torn between her new friend Susie and her old head-cheerleader best friend (who is always kept in the dark about the gang's "secret", and, wearyingly, is also in the opeing credits...).

Most episodes take place in and around the High School, which is "amusingly" referred to as being in New England as a clever nod to the show's origins, but in reality looks like it's in California. The TARDIS is mostly used as a base of operations for the gang, where they gather to discuss the threat-of-the-week with The Doctor, who sends the kids off to fight in his place most the time and serves mostly as a mentor. Trips in time and space are reserved for "event" episodes.

By mid-season there'll be a love triangle between Ian, Vicki and Susie, The Doctor will have a "charming" awkward and bumbling relationship with the school's foxy middle-aged principal, and millions of American fans will loudly and obnoxiously declare it to be far superior to "the old version".
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Old 27-02-2014, 15:42
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It would be mainly set in a High School.

A new "British" girl (ie cringey fake accent) would have started at the school, and everyone would tease her for being "ugly" and "weird" and having a very British name (Susie), despite the fact that she was played by some token cute blonde, and was full of cool pop culture references, quick "witty" one-liners and a - shudder - "sassy" attitude.

The school's main jock, Ian, and his cheerleader girlfriend Vicki (played by some of the weird interchangeable plastic-faced twenty-somethings off of all those interminable CW shows) would tease Susie a lot for being ugly and not sassy, and one day would chase her to the janitor's room, unaware that her Grandfather (who she would henceforth call "Pops" because f*** us, right?) was the school janitor.

In the janitor's room they would discover the TARDIS, which looks like a Police Box because the execs making the show think that this is what every TARDIS looks like, and meet The Doctor (Charles Dance in the sole British piece of casting). Before you know it, aliens are invading the school, and Susie [who, incidentally, gets top billing in the opening credits, which play over an electric guitar version of the Who theme - Charles Dance gets the "And... As Doctor Who" at the end of the credits] takes them on, with Ian and Vicki reluctantly in tow.

The four turn out to be quite the team, even though Ian is comically stupid and serves as the punchline a lot of the time. Vicki turns out to be not quite as much of a bitch as cheerleaders are supposed to be according to television, and becomes torn between her new friend Susie and her old head-cheerleader best friend (who is always kept in the dark about the gang's "secret", and, wearyingly, is also in the opeing credits...).

Most episodes take place in and around the High School, which is "amusingly" referred to as being in New England as a clever nod to the show's origins, but in reality looks like it's in California. The TARDIS is mostly used as a base of operations for the gang, where they gather to discuss the threat-of-the-week with The Doctor, who sends the kids off to fight in his place most the time and serves mostly as a mentor. Trips in time and space are reserved for "event" episodes.

By mid-season there'll be a love triangle between Ian, Vicki and Susie, The Doctor will have a "charming" awkward and bumbling relationship with the school's foxy middle-aged principal, and millions of American fans will loudly and obnoxiously declare it to be far superior to "the old version".
If the US networks ever got their hands on Who this is all horribly, frighteningly plausible...
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Old 27-02-2014, 16:06
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millions of American fans will loudly and obnoxiously declare it to be far superior to "the old version".
Joking aside, that's a bit harsh imho.

Most american fans I know would not want the show to be 'americanized'. It's british flavour is part of the charm.

The USA v UK comments on IMDB and YouTube make me a wince.
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Old 27-02-2014, 19:21
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I've never understood the American obsession with remaking British shows. Why can't they just be satisfied with the British show?
This.

Everything has to revolve around America as far as they are concerned.

Talk about a self-centred nation - if it doesn't happen in America, they are not interested, and I'd truly dread to see what they would make of Dr Who.

Think of the dreadful re-makes of masterpieces of British science fiction re-written to pander to home-lovin' American tastes. Look at the atrocious mess made of War of the Worlds and Midwitch Cuckoos once Hollywood got their hands on them.
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Old 27-02-2014, 19:29
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omg will be some steriod filled muscle man with two lazer guns blasting everything in sight and then winking at the camera while saying just call me who,,,,,,,doctor who.
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Old 27-02-2014, 19:30
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Old 28-02-2014, 00:41
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It would be mainly set in a High School.

A new "British" girl (ie cringey fake accent) would have started at the school, and everyone would tease her for being "ugly" and "weird" and having a very British name (Susie), despite the fact that she was played by some token cute blonde, and was full of cool pop culture references, quick "witty" one-liners and a - shudder - "sassy" attitude.

The school's main jock, Ian, and his cheerleader girlfriend Vicki (played by some of the weird interchangeable plastic-faced twenty-somethings off of all those interminable CW shows) would tease Susie a lot for being ugly and not sassy, and one day would chase her to the janitor's room, unaware that her Grandfather (who she would henceforth call "Pops" because f*** us, right?) was the school janitor.

In the janitor's room they would discover the TARDIS, which looks like a Police Box because the execs making the show think that this is what every TARDIS looks like, and meet The Doctor (Charles Dance in the sole British piece of casting). Before you know it, aliens are invading the school, and Susie [who, incidentally, gets top billing in the opening credits, which play over an electric guitar version of the Who theme - Charles Dance gets the "And... As Doctor Who" at the end of the credits] takes them on, with Ian and Vicki reluctantly in tow.

The four turn out to be quite the team, even though Ian is comically stupid and serves as the punchline a lot of the time. Vicki turns out to be not quite as much of a bitch as cheerleaders are supposed to be according to television, and becomes torn between her new friend Susie and her old head-cheerleader best friend (who is always kept in the dark about the gang's "secret", and, wearyingly, is also in the opeing credits...).

Most episodes take place in and around the High School, which is "amusingly" referred to as being in New England as a clever nod to the show's origins, but in reality looks like it's in California. The TARDIS is mostly used as a base of operations for the gang, where they gather to discuss the threat-of-the-week with The Doctor, who sends the kids off to fight in his place most the time and serves mostly as a mentor. Trips in time and space are reserved for "event" episodes.

By mid-season there'll be a love triangle between Ian, Vicki and Susie, The Doctor will have a "charming" awkward and bumbling relationship with the school's foxy middle-aged principal, and millions of American fans will loudly and obnoxiously declare it to be far superior to "the old version".
Send that idea in to a US network but take out words like "wearyingly" just in case someone is actually reading carefully enough. You have a big career ahead of you.
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Old 28-02-2014, 14:30
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I have no idea how it would turn out but I'm pretty sure it would be awful. I really don't think it would translate well into an American production.

They would be better off doing something akin to The X-Files.
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Old 28-02-2014, 18:12
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I've always maintained that if we had to go with an American in the role that Alexis Denisof (Wesley in Angel) would excel at it. He could even do it with an English accent if that was required. And at a young looking 48 I think he could bring some maturity and intensity but still be fit enough for a bit of running around.

If we're going with the traditional younger female companion, my picks would be Kristen Bell or Tatiana Maslany. Both I think could bring a bit of a spirited intelligent Sally Sparrow like quality to it.

The Master would confound me though. Maybe Mark Pellegrino...or even John Noble? Think the reason that one is so difficult for me is that I'm so used to great British actors playing villains, that it becomes harder to think of folks from US tv for that type of part !

I am stumped about the equivalent of a Police Box. (Maybe a photo booth? In keeping with the tradition of something that's been made redundant by mobiles! ) I imagine producers would go for the lazy option and choose some kind of car though, and yeah probably an old syle Impala.

Very hard to imagine though that they wouldn't give him some kind of sonic gun.

(Oh and Kudos for the Big Bang/Red Dwarf comparison. Now I know why that show always felt really familiar LOL!)
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