How Bill & Ted first came to life, and the brief period where it looked as if Hollywood was interested in a Doctor Who film… There’s a time travel theme to this latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, starting with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The distributor going bankrupt just as the movie ... Podcast | Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Doctor Who (2010s unmade film)
How Bill & Ted first came to life, and the brief period where it looked as if Hollywood was interested in a Doctor Who film…
There’s a time travel theme to this latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, starting with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The distributor going bankrupt just as the movie was being finished, the year-long delay to its release, the audition that threw Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter together…? There’s quite the story behind it all.
In the early 2010s, meanwhile, a single interview ignited a whole conversation about a possible Doctor Who movie, around the era when Matt Smith was in the TARDIS. In theory, this would have been made in America, separate from the TV show that was being put together in Wales.
Things, er, went awry. Have a listen:
