David Tennant can be up for a return journey within the Tardis, so long as its on the massive display screen.
Whereas showing collectively at LA Comedian Con, which happened September 26-28, Tennant and Billie Piper, who performed companion Rose Tyler to Tennant’s Physician Who, have been requested in the event that they’d be up for returning to their iconic characters for a Physician Who film? Each gave enthusiastic responses within the optimistic.
“I all the time was pitching for that,” Piper stated. “The place’s the movie?” Tennant added, “We’re out there!“
Piper really premiered on Physician Who earlier than Tennant, as Rose Tyler was additionally the companion for Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor Who when the sequence returned in 2005. On the finish of that first season, Eccleston was changed with Tennant, making him the tenth Physician, with Piper persevering with within the function of Rose for Tennant’s first full season.
The 2 have reprised their characters a number of instances through the years after their stints as the primary Physician and companion have been over. That features The Day of the Physician, Physician Who’s fiftieth anniversary particular episode. That episode was proven in choose film theaters, so Tennant and Piper have performed their characters on the massive display screen earlier than.
“I liked it that individuals went to see the final Physician Who episode within the cinema,” Piper stated. “I simply liked that. I might love the Physician Who expertise on the massive display screen. They’re type of like movies anyway.”
There even have been three Doctor Who movies thus far. The primary two films, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasions Earth 2150 A.D., have been launched in 1965 and 1966, respectively, and featured Peter Cushing’s Physician Who. The third was 1996’s Physician Who, which was the lone solo journey for Paul McGann’s Physician Who.
Tennant’s final look as Physician Who got here in 2023, when he appeared in three episodes of Ncuti Gatwa’s debut season because the Physician. Piper was most just lately seen in a 2025 episode of Physician Who.
So far as Tennant and Piper’s aforementioned availability, amongst Tennant’s upcoming tasks are Good Omens season 3, which is anticipated to premiere in 2026, and Rivals season 2. Piper, in the meantime, presently stars within the Netflix hit Wednesday, which has been renewed for season 3.
The way forward for Physician Who, alternatively, is a bit up within the air. Gatwa exited the role after the newest season concluded, so the search for the 16th Doctor has begun; Piper’s title has even been rumored, although others have made the case why Piper can’t be the 16th doctor.
Whether or not or not this subsequent chapter of Physician Who might be changed into a film is to be decided, however the BBC’s content chief recently said that Doctor Who will continue.
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