Sutherland dares Daleks in Dr Who role
- Publication: The Herald (Ireland)
- Date: 1989-10-23
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- Page: 7
- Language: English
IT'S enough to put the Daleks in a spin. TV time traveller, Dr Who is being brought right up to date with the Batman treatment.
Out goes the mild-mannered English eccentric of the long-running BBC series.
The new Dr Who played by Donald Sutherland will be a hard-drinking womaniser, more likely to swap punches ilhan time zones.
Sutherland is to star in a £20 million American movie which promises to do for Dr Who what Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson did for Batman.
Bad language and violence in the Batman film shocked many fans of the old TV series, but the box office smash took £100 million in its first few weeks.
Tough guy actor Sutherland beat Dudley Moore, John Cleese, Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone for the role.
Current TV Time Lord Sylvester McCoy was also in the running.
A film insider said: "The film will be a far cry from the TV series which is considred tame. They want to take Dr Who into the 90s."
Movie makers Pathe have recruited the Star Wars team to design spectacular space battles.
Sutherland's Dr Who will carry a gun and get involved in bar room brawls with aliens while saving the universe.
He will also make love to his beautiful assistant, played by 321 quiz show hostess Caroline Munroe.
Veteran Dr Who scriptwriter Johnny Byrne has been sworn to secrecy on the plot. But he told fans at a Dr Who convention: "One aspect of the film will be the doctor's relationship with his assistant.
"It's ridiculous that they could spend so much time together without getting involved."
The film is to go into production by the end of the year, ironically at a time when the BBC series faces the axe.
The Beeb's Doctor Who looks set for the axe after a disastrous ratings battle with Coronation Street.
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- APA 6th ed.: (1989-10-23). Sutherland dares Daleks in Dr Who role. The Herald (Ireland) p. 7.
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