Wowee, the Moff is really going places, isn't he? As reported at Digital Spy, he mentions a famous historical battling a monster! Ooh, who could this be? Charlie Chaplin was mentioned in Journey's End, maybe it was done in the same context as the Agatha Christie one?
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Tuesday, September 8
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This story originally came from The Sun, so - at the moment - should be taken with a pinch of salt!
Richard Curtis? Really?
Expect a foppish, stuttering Time Lord, companions who get drunk and swear because it's so shocking dahling, bland love scenes,and a last-minute dash to the airport/Tardis.
God help us :-)
I wonder if he's actually writing the Dalek/Churchill story currently being filmed, and not Mark Gattiss. This qualifies as "historical figure battles monster".
It's not THAT surprising. Curtis knows Moffats wife and Moffat himself. He did, after all, write The Curse of the Fatal Death for Comic Relief after all. The connection was already there.
However, I do agree that it's a very exciting commission. Now, if he's managed to convince Neil Gaiman as well...
The DW comic book series recently had a thinly-veiled version of Chaplin, which seemed rather odd. I figured the reason they wouldn't use the real Chaplin might be due to his estate exercising control over likeness rights or something, but it could be that the showrunners told them to change it, knowing they were using Chaplin in the next series.
It's official now - the BBC have revealed Curtis is penning a script ;-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8244450.stm
Yay! I know someone who loved DW and Richard. He'll be so happy! :)
Apparently Richard Curtis was just on Radio 2 and he said his episode would be airing in February. An early start, even if his episode is the Dalek one (2 or 3) and not the hypothetical Chaplin one, which would have to be at least 6. Moffatt is writing 1, if Curtis isn't writing the Dalek story it's probably Gattiss, we don't know about 3 but it's apparently the story now filming at a monastery, and 4/5 is the River Song story, again by Moffatt.
As his episode is filming in November, it's not the Dalek story - maybe it's Chaplin after all?
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