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Post by fitzoliverj on Feb 12, 2017 15:25:50 GMT
Steven Moffat said that they'd wanted to have the two Peter Cushing movies' film posters up on the UNIT set in "The Day of the Doctor" but couldn't secure the rights. I vaguely recall that Big Finish have said they can't do movie-era Companion Chronicles because of rights.
But both DWM and BBC Books have used the characters - the former in a movie special magazine, and the latter in a short story in "Short Trips and Side Steps".
I can't help thinking that there a possibilities still open for the character (and, no, I don't mean using CGI to recreate the actor in question).
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Post by sherlock on Feb 12, 2017 17:34:00 GMT
I believe the posters would be copyright due to being explicitly used to advertise the film, so thus belong to the film company. I don't know about the character himself.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 12:59:20 GMT
There was an original adventure set on Mars written by Alan Barnes and published as a comic, but Doctor Who Magazine has always been in a very peculiar grey zone when it comes to copyright, they got away with using Grace Holloway despite both the BBC and Big Finish being unable to. It's hard to say, but I think there's probably a wall there in one form or another.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 19, 2017 14:34:45 GMT
Werent the Cushing posters, meant to be a reference to info about the Doctor getting out somehow and someone turning the info into movies?
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Post by sherlock on Feb 19, 2017 14:49:26 GMT
Werent the Cushing posters, meant to be a reference to info about the Doctor getting out somehow and someone turning the info into movies? In Moffat's head (this was never going to be outright explained) the posters would have meant in the Whoniverse Ian and Barbara, presumably strapped for cash after disappearing for two years, at some point sold their story (or a version of it) and the films was made. UNIT later bought up all the copies and advertising for the films upon realising their significance (presumably upon meeting the actual Doctor) and in order to keep knowledge about aliens and the Doctor under wraps, hence the posters being in the Black Archive. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 19, 2017 15:01:51 GMT
Werent the Cushing posters, meant to be a reference to info about the Doctor getting out somehow and someone turning the info into movies? In Moffat's head (this was never going to be outright explained) the posters would have meant in the Whoniverse Ian and Barbara, presumably strapped for cash after disappearing for two years, at some point sold their story (or a version of it) and the films was made. UNIT later bought up all the copies and advertising for the films upon realising their significance (presumably upon meeting the actual Doctor) and in order to keep knowledge about aliens and the Doctor under wraps, hence the posters being in the Black Archive. Thats it. Thats what i thought it was |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Feb 19, 2017 18:50:28 GMT
Over on the 'Wilderness Years Novels' thread there's a reference to David A McIntee's proposed Cushing novel, 'Crypt of the Cyber-Men'.
Also, back in the 1960s the BBC put excerpts of movies on the radio, and "Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD" was one of them. Supposedly this episode of "Movietime" survives, but I've never come across it online.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 1:01:37 GMT
In Moffat's head (this was never going to be outright explained) the posters would have meant in the Whoniverse Ian and Barbara, presumably strapped for cash after disappearing for two years, at some point sold their story (or a version of it) and the films was made. UNIT later bought up all the copies and advertising for the films upon realising their significance (presumably upon meeting the actual Doctor) and in order to keep knowledge about aliens and the Doctor under wraps, hence the posters being in the Black Archive. Thats it. Thats what i thought it was He also pops up as a fictional creation of our First Doctor in a short story called The Five O'Clock Shadow and there's a cute little reference in Salvation to a film based on the events witnessed in the book called Pray for a Miracle starring Cushing as the mysterious government advisor Doctor Who. I've been reading some of the Jon Pertwee era Countdown + TV Comic stories and there are some like The Planet of the Daleks! or The Eternal Present which feel like Cushing stories. You've got the evil despot, colourful and rather surreal environments, one-off companions in the form of Finney, Lammers, Tolliver or whomever, etc. |
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Post by constonks on Mar 6, 2017 14:29:20 GMT
There's also a fun little Brief Encounter from DWM where the Third Doctor goes to the cinema and watches Dr Who and the Daleks (although they never name it), makes a bunch of meta comments and irritates the other patrons because he won't shut up.
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Post by escalus5 on Mar 6, 2017 15:14:29 GMT
I'm guessing StudioCanal has the rights to the two Dr. Who movies, since that company owns a lot of the features produced by Amicus and recently restored the films for Blu-Ray/DVD.
I've always thought it interesting that both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker took the leading roles in the final stories of horror anthology films produced by Amicus (THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and VAULT OF HORROR).
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Mar 6, 2017 16:52:14 GMT
Mine is on the shelf before an unearthly child. You can't see it with the door shut.
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