Steven Moffat talks Doctor Who 2013
Doctor Who executive Steven Moffat has revealed a few forthcoming adventures for the time-traveler in his 50th year – including an alien planet.
“We’re back at the movie posters thing, no two-parters, so they’re all standalone stories. And they are all huge – there isn’t the budget-saver episode. I don’t know how we’ve done this. Possibly we’ll find out at the end when we’ll have no money left and will have to go to prison…” Moffat told SFX magazine.
The blockbuster movie style episodes will broadcast as the programme marks fifty years since the first edition aired back in 1963.
“We’ve gone all-out to give you a fantastic alien planet, which is looking absolutely amazing.” He says.
The Doctor will also have a ghost story which Moffat describes as “cracking” and a siege in another episode – as well as what he describes as a“modern urban thriller” unlike any other urban based modern day thriller.
And of course the return of the metal troublemakers which was revealed earlier in the year by the BBC…
“We’ve got Neil Gaiman doing the Cybermen. Part of the impulse there was to say ‘Have we fully exploited the creepy factor of the Cybermen yet?’ I thought Neil would be a good match for that.”
The full Doctor Who interview with Steven Moffat is in the current edition of SFX magazine. On sale now in shops and available online at Newsstand.