K9: Timequake

[jwl]

K9Official have announced plans to take K9 to the big screen:

K9: Time-Quake (Credit: K9Official)"Move over R2D2 and C3PO"......

K9, the World's most famous robot dog traverses the dimensions of space and time to become the latest robot star of the big screen!

Having made his TV debut nearly forty years ago in the 1977 Doctor Who TV serial "The Invisible Enemy" K9 went on to become one of the most iconic characters from the BBC series.

A new look high tech K9 for today's cinema is being prepared for film stardom.

The film "K9-TIMEQUAKE" has been written by one of K9's original creators; Bob Baker, a renowned writer of classic Doctor Who serials. Bob went on to co-write with Nick Park the Oscar and Bafta winning Wallace & Gromit series of film shorts as well as the feature film Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

The new K9 will be appearing in a Multi-Million Dollar movie which promises to be a great action adventure set in deep Space. The film will be full of dashing heroes and heroines, Androids, monstrous Aliens and an ultimate foe who will also be familiar to Doctor Who fans everywhere; the megalomaniac OMEGA.

The film is to be a UK co-production with exteriors filmed overseas and studio work planned for the UK.

K9 is the perfect character to star in a movie with a whole new bunch of action heroes making this a home grown Star Wars come Guardians of the Galaxy style cinema must see film.

The film is currently slated for release in 2017 which will be K9's fortieth birthday!


K9: TimeQuake (Credit: K9Official)
The producers told Doctor Who News:
Bob and Paul are very excited about the project and having Omega in the Movie will bring a great new dimension to both characters as K9 faces his greatest challenge. The names of the Director and principle cast will be released in the new year. Regular updates will be posted over the next few months.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/10/k9 ... 23008.html
Also, a photo of the script from their twitter page:

[Bedlam]

Huh, I didn't expect that.

Is it actually anything to do with the Australian K9 series from a few years ago? I suspect not although the top image is from that.

[Parallax]

If it has anything to do with the TV series, it will suck and suck hard. That show was unwatchably horrible.

[Bedlam]

If it has anything to do with the TV series, it will suck and suck hard. That show was unwatchably horrible.

I'd agree that most of it was fairly bad, although there were some highlights, I like 'The last Precinct' I felt it was somewhat finding it's feet at the end of the series.

[jwl]

Huh, I didn't expect that.

Is it actually anything to do with the Australian K9 series from a few years ago? I suspect not although the top image is from that.

It seems to be produced by Bob Baker and Paul Tams still, but I remember hearing a while back that they were planning a hard reboot of the series to get something closer to what they originally envisioned. I have only watched the first episode of the k9 tv series so I can't say anything of its quality.

It's a long shot, but what I hope they do with this movie is rope aardman in and create a stop-motion. It would take it in a very new direction to any of the tv shows, and also aardman's stop-motions are awesome.