Doctor Who film confirmed by Potter director

‘Harry Potter’ director David Yates has confirmed that a movie based on the hugely successful British sci-fi series ‘Doctor Who’ is in the works.

Yates, who is working with the BBC on the project, also confirmed that it would be a standalone adventure, completely separate from the television universe of most recent head writers Steven Moffat and Russell T Davis.

This will also mean a new Doctor for the big screen will be cast.

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"Russell T Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic,” Yates said to Variety, “but we have to put that aside and start from scratch.”

 “We’re looking at writers right now. We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right. It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.”

Yates, who directed four ‘Potter’ films, is a great name to have attached having captured the British feel that Potter could have easily lost on the big screen, and that ‘Doctor Who’ would definitely need.

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“We want a British sensibility,” insists Yates, “but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we are looking at American writers too.”

The announcement has been a long time coming for ‘Who’ fans, what do you make of the direction Yates is taking?