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Who packs a gun, gets drunk fights dirty, seduces assistants?<br />
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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,<br />
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Out goes the mild-mannered English eccentric of the long-running BBC series.<br />
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The new Dr Who played by Donald Sutherland will be a hard drinking womanizer, more likely to swap punches than time zones.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Tough guy actor Sutherland beat Dudley Moore, John Cleese, Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone for the role.<br />
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Battles<br />
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Current TV Time Lord Sylvester McCoy was also in the running.<br />
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But an insider said: "The film will be a far cry from the TV series which is considered tame. They want to take Dr Who into the 90s."<br />
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Movie makers Pathe have recruited the Star Wars team to design spectacular space battles.<br />
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Sutherland's Dr Who will carry a gun and get involved in bar room brawls with aliens while saving the universe.<br />
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He will also make love to his beautiful assistant, played by 321 quiz show hostess Caroline Munroe.<br />
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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.<br />
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"It's ridiculous that they could spend so much time together without getting involved."<br />
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The film is to go into production by the end of the year, ironically at a time when the BBC series faces the axe.<br />
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A spokesman for the Dr Who Fan Club said: "Sutherland could put, the Doctor back where he belongs, at the top."<br />
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Caption: TIME FOR A CHANGE: Tough guy Sutherland adds a new dimension to Dr Who<br />
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Caption: CAROLINE: Time for love<br />
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Who was nearly Who<br />
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Film bosses feared little Dudley Moore would have been short of experience<br />
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John Cleese nearly got it, but producers wanted something completely different<br />
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Sly missed out because he couldn't remember words to the Dr Who tune<br />
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Not a lot of people know that Michael Caine fancied life inside the Tardis<br />
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