David Yates is Directing a Doctor Who Movie

After directing the last 4 Harry Potter films, director David Yates has been looking for his next big project. It almost ended up being an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand, but a new report reveals that he is teaming up with BBC for a big budget Doctor Who movie.

While Doctor Who is a household name in the UK, it has been starting to catch on more and more in the US, and the BBC feels it is the right time to bring the Doctor back to the big screen.  In the 1960's, two Doctor Who movies were released starring Peter Cushing, titled Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

According to Variety, this project is in the very early development stages, but is expected to be a "completely fresh approach to the material" and will not tie into the current TV series. David Yates is currently searching for a writer and mentioned that it should take 2-3 years before the film hits theaters: "It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena."