New K9 film announced.

[Catsmate]

Bob Baker, the Doctor Who scriptwriter and creator of K9 has managed to find support for a big-budget featuring the robotic dog.

K9, the robot dog who traveled around time and space with the Doctor back in the 1970s and has popped up intermittently since then, is set to star in his own big movie. Bob Baker, who co-created K9 back in 1977’s episode “The Invisible Enemy,” is behind this new venture.

From the press release:

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.

So, what're peoples' opinions on this? Third-time-lucky? Or another spin-off disaster?

[ninjaconor]

I really think K9 is too much of a novelty to ever be a good lead character. He was good in Doctor Who because it was fun to see The Doctor work alongside a really shitty looking robot dog who can somehow outsmart him. As a character though he has absolutely no depth.

[misterharry]

I'll probably give it a go. But if it's anything like the K9 TV series, I'm not too optimistic about it.

[Aerzyk]

Maybe if it's for kids.