Tuesday 17 April 2012

Confessions: The Ones that Didn't Make It

Do they know about the Doorwardens yet?
No, I don't think so.  You tell them.
Righty-ho.  The Doorwardens were a last-minute addition, you see.  In all the early drafts we were going to have Daleks on the doors, but there were a few incidents of violence on set...



We lost two good crewmembers filming Episode 32.  A boom op and a focus puller.  Very regrettable.
Quite.  And there was a bit of a... I dunno, what would you call it, Cylinder?
A clash of ideologies, I suppose you could say?
Yeah, that sounds about right  So we had to let them go, and come up with a replacement quickly.  We found the Doorwaden characters sitting around on a metaphorical back-burner looking sorry for themselves, waiting for their threequel film to be made.
One other note on the subject - the Doorwardens as you see them in the final cut are all played by Andy Serkis via motion-capture.

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