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"Steven Moffat has denied reports that a Doctor Who movie is in development. Last year, Harry Potter&amp;#039;s David Yates claimed that he was working on a film spinoff from the BBC sci-fi drama, but Moffat described the film project as &amp;quot;some weird fantasy&amp;quot;.   &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think [Yates] was ever signed to it,&amp;quot; the showrunner told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;I never signed him, so he&amp;#039;s not. &amp;quot;I think he&amp;#039;s [expressed] an interest in doing it and he&amp;#039;s a very fine director, and I think he&amp;#039;d certainly be someone that would be on the list for directing such a project. I&amp;#039;m a big fan of his. But the project as he describes it would not happen.&amp;quot; Moffat added that he hopes to produce a Doctor Who movie &amp;quot;someday&amp;quot;, but insisted that a proposal for a film reboot - unrelated to the BBC show&amp;#039;s continuity - &amp;quot;did not happen&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;That whole proposal was not true,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I can say that with authority because, as far as the BBC is concerned, I&amp;#039;m the voice of Doctor Who. So if I say it, it&amp;#039;s true.  &amp;quot;The BBC own Doctor Who and, for the moment, I run it for them. So I can assure you definitively that was all nonsense - not the idea of making a film, we&amp;#039;d love to make a film, but the idea of a rebooted continuity, a different Doctor.&amp;quot;  The writer claimed that rebooting Who for the big screen would be &amp;quot;writing the book on how to destroy a franchise&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;[Any future film] will be absolutely run by the Doctor Who production office in Cardiff,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;It will feature the same Doctor as on television. It will not be a rebooted continuity. All of that would be insane.&amp;quot; Doctor Who will return to BBC One with a new series in August. &amp;gt; Matt Smith doubts Doctor Who movie role Watch former Doctor Who star David Tennant discuss the rumoured movie with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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