Steven Moffat has revealed some details on the origin of John Hurt’s Docto, which has intrigued Whovians since he appeared at the end of the last series episode The Name Of The Doctor.
Speaking to SFX magazine,
Moffat said: “Why not a mayfly Doctor, who exists for one show only?
I’d often thought about that. Would it be weird in the run of the series
to have the 45th Doctor turn up and be played by Johnny Depp or someone? Would that be a cool thing to do?
“There was also the idea that if you could bring one classic Doctor
back, you’d actually, impossibly, want it to be William Hartnell. You
wouldn’t want any of the others. You’d want him to come and say ‘What in
the name of God have I turned into?’ That’s the confrontation that you
most want to see, to celebrate 50 years.
“Going round and round in circles on it I just thought ‘What about a
Doctor that he never talks about?’ And what if it is a Doctor who’s done
something terrible, who’s much deadlier and more serious, who
represents that thing that is the undertow in both David and Matt. You
know there’s a terrible old man inside them. Well, here he is, facing
the children he becomes, as it were.”
Read the rest of this exclusive interview in SFX issue 241 on sale on Wednesday 18 October 2013.
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