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Oh and according to Robert Llewellyn's webpage, "Shooting is due to start in August, with rehearsals before that. As for other casting, no details yet, but it's going to be a hum dinger, guaranteed."

Presumably that's next August then, not the one just been?

Oh but then it says a bit further up:

As soon as there is any concrete news on this major, massive, hunormous project, it will be here in big plain letters.

Same old, same old...

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[valamelmeo.livejournal.com]

What's the difference? It'll never be released. And even if it is, it will be a spectacular failure. The sad part is that I don't think they realize that we're all laughing at them.

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No, but that's because there's still a large[1] number of sycophantic fans out there telling them how wonderful they are and how great RD is and how they can't wait for the movie.

I mean, there were people out there who liked series 8 and found it funny.

Just not as many as there were for series 1-7.

You'd think they'd notice the merchandising drop off though. I wouldn't necessarily expect them to notice the death of atvrd, or the demise of the Australian branch of the fan club or even the drop off in numbers of the fan club in the UK. But I would have expected they'd notice the monetary drop off.

I dunno. Part of me hopes that the movie will be fantastic. Part of me fears that it'll be series 8 redux. Most of me accepts that the likelihood of it being made diminishes with every passing year. Part of me still wants to be an extra in it (but then again, I'd have volunteered to be an extra in "Plan 9", or "Knights" or even "Soultaker". Not "The Incredible Melting Man" or "Red Zone Cuba" or "Blues Brothers 2000" though. Those were just too bad.) A lot of me wishes they'd just end the suspense now, accept the inevitable and shoot it in the head. (A lot of me hopes if they do that that Craig Charles is next up against the wall. Not sure why...)

[1]when gathered together at conventions it looks large anyway. Hell, I can find you a "large" group of fans for just about any sci-fi series in Melbourne, particularly if I advertise well enough.

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

A lot of me wishes they'd just end the suspense now, accept the inevitable and shoot it in the head.

Never gonna happen. Do GNP even DO anything else? Googling for them throws up lots of RD links but nothing else - no website of their own or anything.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

They don't need to do anything else. Danny told me just a couple of years back that he makes a tidy bit of money from repeat and clips fees. He said imagine how much more GNP are bringing in from the T shirts and so on - all stuff that the cast don't make any profit from. And Alsion mentions the drop off in merchandise - this is the greatest time ever for RD merchandise. There hasn't been any new RD in years but you can buy all manner of related tat for it.

The last I heard officially on the movie was an interview with Danny where he said the latest he had heard was May 2004, but he wasn't holding his breath - probably not an official comment that enamoured him to GNP, but there you go. I suspect Robert's "August" prediction is just a web page he hasn't bothered to update since early last year. I predict that in June they will push the date back again to September or something. The RD website tells the world that the movie hasn't started crewing up, yet. Is that normal 5-6 months before shooting is supposed to happen? I have no idea.

I wonder what happened to that fan that won the chance to be an extra in a video related competition all those years ago. You can tell how long ago - it was when RD was being released on video! I think he was about 15 at the time. Is he still keen? Has he been paid off with alternative prizes? Or do they just keep promising him "soon, soon, any time now..."?

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Alsion mentions the drop off in merchandise - this is the greatest time ever for RD merchandise. There hasn't been any new RD in years but you can buy all manner of related tat for it.

Yeah I'd noticed the wider range at the ABC shop, but I guess what I was thinking of was that I haven't seen anyone wearing RD t-shirts in about 3 years (if you discount me and Dean on wash days). I should talk to the ABC people and ask how much of the stuff actually moves - and whether it's being bought by fans or (in my case) family members who vaguely remembered that she liked that series and so get stuff from it.

I wonder what happened to that fan that won the chance to be an extra in a video related competition all those years ago. You can tell how long ago - it was when RD was being released on video! I think he was about 15 at the time.

Hee. I'm sure they'll have another competition for the DVD... and then they can have "Elderly Man at Table" played by competition winner one and "Elderly Man in Doorway" played by competition winner 2. Mind you, they'll have to use computer generations of all the main cast by then. Still, can't hurt the acting I suppose. ;-)

May 2004 fits in with the Fox Studios thing, from what Derek was saying. But if they haven't gotten the crew yet... hm. Who knows.

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particularly if I advertise well enough.

And free entry helps as well.

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

They've been claiming for years that filming will be starting in August. I met Robert Llewelyn about 3 years ago at a literary festival here and he was saying that filming was about to start next summer/autumn. It's just never going to get off the ground. Though all Doctor Who fans were resigned to that fate after the McGann movie and now there's definite word that it is coming back (albeit in two years), so maybe there's some hope.

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Ah, the McGann movie. I really, really liked Paul McGann as Dr Who. I didn't even mind the "love story" aspect. Or the gothic tardis. But the "turn back time and save people who are killed"? Was stupid. They just should not have let the Americans write the script. *sigh* And I was so excited when it was coming out...

(Mind you, the version I borrowed off a friend before it was shown here had all the US commercials still in it. Which kind of made up for some of the bleah aspects of it all. At least we could all sit and laugh at the foreign ads.)