DOCTOR WHO (In Development)

• DOCTOR WHO GETS HIS FILM

Filmmaker David Yates is leaving the, Boy Who Lived, behindfor the Time Lord.

Variety reports that the Harry Potter director is developinga feature film version of the famous sci-fi TV series with the BBC's JaneTranter in the hopes of turning Doctor Who into a big screen franchise.

"We're looking at writers now. We're going to spend twoto three years to get it right," Yates told Variety. "It needs quite aradical transformation to take it into the bigger arena."

"The notion of the time-travelling Time Lord is such astrong one, because you can express story and drama in any dimension ortime," said Yates. "Russell T. Davies and then Steven Moffat have donetheir own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that asideand start from scratch."

That's right. Yates' Doctor Who movie will not adhere to itssmall screen counterpart's continuity and will be, according to the trade, "completelyfresh approach to the material."

So what do you think of a Doctor Who film being made andhaving no ties with the TV series