Truth, justice and the Gallifreyan way? As Steven Moffat tells Nick Setchfield, the Doctor’s in for his unlikeliest Christmas yet…
“Can you imagine,” says Peter Capaldi, his lean, pale face creasing into a smile, “if you’re in Midsomer Murders you never get the chance to watch someone fly into a skyscraper with a cloak on, pick up a girl and fly with her…”
The TARDIS has never troubled the corpse-littered hamlet of Midsomer but it has arrived in the ancestral home of the superhero. It’s Christmas Eve in New York – or at least an unremarkable September day in Cardiff, where a skyline backdrop of tower blocks and water tanks wraps around a rooftop set in the BBC’s bayside studios. Any day now the Doctor Who team will decamp to Bulgaria, where two blocks of an equally make-believe Manhattan stand waiting, ready to double for the city that never sleeps. New York, New York, so good they built it twice…
This unreal real estate is protected by a masked crusader known as the Ghost – part of an eternal love triangle with a mild-mannered guy named Grant and a plucky girl reporter named Lucy. Sound familiar? It should do. This Christmas the Doctor’s plunging full-tilt into the spandex-wrapped realm of superpowers and secret identities. It’s a collision every bit as improbable as the Time Lord trading clues with John Nettles in the murder capital of England.
As writer and showrunner Steven Moffat tells SFX in an exclusive interview, “The Return Of Doctor Mysterio” is Doctor Who filtered through the lens of comic book cinema. “It’s a good thing to watch on Christmas Day,” he grins. “A big superhero movie! Hopefully it’s a good family blockbuster for Christmas Day…”
Stash your sonic in your utility belt. Prepare the popcorn. Up, up and away we go…
So why superheroes?
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Spooks Ghouls & Freaks Fools
WITH ITS ECLECTIC cast, broad comedy and supernatural farce, Rentaghost was a mainstay of BBC children’s TV from the late ’70s to the mid-’80s and like nothing else.
LOST IN THE SHADOWS
THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS OF INTERDIEW WITH THE DAMPIRE DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF LESTAT, LOUIS, CLAUDIA AND WHERE THE ANNE RICE UNIVERSE IS HEADING
NINE LIVES
ON SET FOR THE FINAL SERIES OF INSIDE NO 9. STEVE PEMBERTON AND REECE SHEARSMITH REFLECT ON THE TYRANNY OF THE TWIST
NOA'S ARC
CAESAR'S STORY MAY BE DONE AND DUSTED, BUT AS HIS CREATORS RICK JAFFA AND AMANDA SILVER TELL US, THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF TERRAIN TO EXPLORE IN - KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
TICKET TO RIDE
DIRECTOR BEN CHESSELL TAKES THE TARDIS BACK IN TIME IN HIS TWO EPISODES
SERVING FACE
HAIR AND MAKE-UP DESIGNER CLAIRE WILLIAMS ON NEW LOOKS
BABY BOOM
The TARDIS lands on a spaceship. It was very, very hard to shoot. We used real babies! I like to do things that I’ve never done before and sometimes that’s quite hard, with such a long career as mine.
BOXING CLEVER
DOCTOR WHO IS BACK AND THIS TIME IT'S TAKING OVER THE PLANET
WELCOME HOME
THE CREATIVE MINDS BEHIND THE LIVE-ACTION ADAPTATION OF THE FALLOUT GAME SERIES EXPLAIN THEIR ORIGINAL TAKE ON BETHESDA'S POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD
MONSTERS INC
THE TITANS UNITE IN HOT COLLAB GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE
