New adventures, new companion, new beginning - but the end is in sight for Doctor Who's star and showrunner. Nick Setchfield gets that Saturday feeling with Steven Moffat
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO STEP INSIDE DOCTOR WHO?
It feels like this.
You leave a chilly, prefabricated corridor in the BBc’s roath Lock complex in cardiff Bay. Into the dark warmth of the studio you go, through the big, serious door, past the cables and the monitors, the crew and their hushed conversations, the telltale paint-and-glue tang of television make believe in your nostrils.
Look, there’s Mars, just ahead of you. You’re about to walk on Mars.
“Don’t wear your best shoes!” a crew member warns you, a wry smile in the half-light.
Too late, mate. the dust of the red planet is already caking your best shoes, the ones you wore because this is a special day, the day you step inside Doctor Who. It’s in the ridges of your soles, the colour of rust. “the cleaners are cursing us,” says producer Nikki Wilson, waiting there on set. “there are red footprints all through the building!”
You push through the jagged mouth of a Martian cave. there are pebbles scattered in the soil, tall ochre stalagmites just ahead. the rocky walls rise to touch the banks of studio lights above. this is a huge, immersive build and the obvious sweat-and-graft of it all makes it no less dreamlike. Just a few weeks ago, Nikki tells you, this space held Blackfriars Bridge and the thames riverbank of regency London. Worlds within worlds, times within times, an infinite police box of possibilities.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 2017 من SFX.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 2017 من SFX.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
ANCER MAHAGEMENT
WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF 28 WEEKS LATER THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE'S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR
WHO YA CONNA CALL?
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL'S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENREDEFYING DRAMA RETURNS
SCARRY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES
UNDEADS REFLECTIONS
NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE'S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON
MUNSTER MASH!
PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL
COMING TO AMERICA
THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH
BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION
IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE'S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX
THE MAINE EVENT
THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING'S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN
WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?
THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIRECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS