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David Warner is Doctor Who!

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silver2

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Date Posted: 08:04:32 05/05/03 Mon

See:

http://www.bigfinish.com/drwho/dwu03_sympathyforthedevil.htm

David Warner is the Doctor!

01.05.03: David Warner, who has played well over a hundred roles in film and television, including starring roles in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Titanic, will star as the Doctor in the second Doctor Who Unbound adventure: Sympathy for the Devil by Jonathan Clements.

David Warner, who had previously been considered as a successor to Jon Pertwee's Doctor in the Seventies, was delighted to accept Big Finish's offer to play the part. 'I said yes as soon as I was asked,' he admitted during the recording of the production. 'The whole fascination is that any actor who's cast brings whatever he has to it. That's the wonderful thing about anybody asked to play Doctor Who, they just bring themselves to it.'

Joining David Warner in Sympathy for the Devil is Nicholas Courtney who reprises his ever-popular role of the Brigadier. In this particular alternate Doctor Who universe, the Brigadier is retired and running a bar in Hong Kong. 'In this story, the Bridagier's rather a failure,' confided Nicholas. 'He doesn't want to be involved with things. He's not a terribly happy person at this stage.' Nicholas was happy to return to Doctor Who once again, 'It's another Doctor to add to my list. How many is that now? I suppose this is number nine!'

Big Finish producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and John Ainsworth were delighted that David Warner accepted the opportunity to play the Doctor. 'Like all the actors to play the Doctor, David brought his own particular qualities and talent to the role and made the part his own - even if it's only for this one story', says Jason.

'Doctor Who Unbound is a great opportunity for us to experiment with the Doctor Who characters and format in a way that simply isn't possible in our regular monthly Doctor Who plays,' says John Ainsworth. 'David Warner is the perfect choice to play the Doctor but not necessarily one that was expected by the fans. I think people will be similarly pleased and surprised with the casting of the remaining four Doctor Who Unbound titles.'

Check out the Sympathy for the Devil for more details of the cast and story and to pre-order the play prior to its June release.

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[> Subject: Re: David Warner is Doctor Who!
Author: HRB [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:44:08 05/05/03 Mon I believe some of us had a discussion about this very role a while back. Now it's happening. Great news! Thanks for posting! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Nine is a magic number!

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Suky
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Date Posted: 10:25:59 05/05/03 Mon

HRB! Good to see you again! Thanks for the news Silver2! That's so awesome! I wasn't in on that discussion, but, come to think of it, DW will make a *perfect* Dr. Who! I might finally become a fan of the series. (Coincidentally, one of my other favorite actors, about whom I'm just putting the finishing touches on a fansite, Cyril Cusack, turned down the role when it was first being cast back in '63. Guess I'm drawn to those Dr. Who types. ;-))

But ...

"David brought his own particular qualities and talent to the role and made the part his own - even if it's only for this one story'"

Only for this one story?? Are they planning to recast the role for each film? Are they trying to give everyone a chance at it or something? Why wouldn't they want to keep the same actor for all of them? (I may only become a temporary Dr. Who fan then. It's the Timothy Dalton/James Bond thing all over again.)

But the big question is: Will DW get the girl too?? ;-)

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Nine is a magic number!
Author: HRB [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:14:16 05/05/03 Mon >HRB! Good to see you again! Good to see you too! Where the heck have you been? You're being missed, you know! Take the time to drop me a line, will ya? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Nine is a magic number!

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Jen again
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Date Posted: 11:04:12 05/11/03 Sun

>(I
>may only become a temporary Dr. Who fan then. It's
>the Timothy Dalton/James Bond thing all over again.)
GMTA - I always thought the only real problem with Dalton was the scripts kept undercutting him. It wasn't that he was too dramatic; the stories were too soap-opera. He had a certain intensity that the Bond of the novels had (as far as I recall from reading them). What a shame.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Aw geez I spoke too soon...

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Jen again
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Date Posted: 19:36:01 05/11/03 Sun

From what I've read and my husband can figure, he's one of many Dr. Who number Nines who all exist in parallel universes. It's a licensed sub-franchise but apparently they didn't pay enough to show him wearing the scarf!!!!! Where's the fun in that?!?!?!?!? They just post a pic of him looking more like Jeffrey Jones in Ed Wood than one of the proper Doctors.

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Re: Aw geez I spoke too soon...

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Suky
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Date Posted: 20:32:58 05/13/03 Tue

>From what I've read and my husband can figure, he's
>one of many Dr. Who number Nines who all exist in
>parallel universes. It's a licensed sub-franchise but
>apparently they didn't pay enough to show him wearing
>the scarf!!!!! Where's the fun in that?!?!?!?!? They
>just post a pic of him looking more like Jeffrey Jones
>in Ed Wood than one of the proper Doctors.

Your mention of a picture got me to go finally and look at that website (I just assumed the message was a repost and didn't bother to actually check out the URL) and realized--the new Dr. Who thing is only an audio recording. :-( Not that I don't love DW's audio work, but I thought there was going to be a new Dr. Who *movie*! Now *that* would've been awesome.

And that picture of him is awful! They've altered it so much it barely looks like him. He does look like Jeffrey Jones! Scary!

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Suky
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Date Posted: 20:23:28 05/13/03 Tue

>GMTA - I always thought the only real problem with
>Dalton was the scripts kept undercutting him. It
>wasn't that he was too dramatic; the stories were too
>soap-opera. He had a certain intensity that the Bond
>of the novels had (as far as I recall from reading
>them). What a shame.

"GMTA"?

I'm glad you agree! I thought I was the only person who liked Dalton as Bond. I never understood why he was so unpopular. I haven't read the books, but I liked his intensity.

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Nine is a magic number!
Author: Jen [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:32:35 05/14/03 Wed >"GMTA"? Great minds think alike! >I haven't read the books, but I >liked his intensity. All the girls I meet who've read the books remember that line in Diamonds Are Forever about how Bond has ice gray eyes and, so it says in the book, when he makes love they blaze like diamonds. The book Bond is not a funny Bond. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]