BBC Media Centre have released new press pack on the new series of Doctor Who:
Doctor Who is set to take on one of his biggest
monsters to date, as the BBC announces at Comic-Con that episode two of
the new series will be called Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, with episode
three confirmed as A Town Called Mercy.
Requiring
one of the largest sets to date to house the prehistoric creatures,
Dinosaurs on A Spaceship will follow the equally epic Asylum of the
Daleks, which kicks-off the show’s highly anticipated return to BBC One
in the autumn.
Starring Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillan as
Amy and Arthur Darvill as Rory, the episode will also co-star Mark
Williams from the Fast Show as Rory’s dad, Brian, and Rupert Graves from
Sherlock. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was written by Chris Chibnall and
directed by Saul Metzstein.
The BBC also confirmed today that
episode three, filmed on location in Spain, will be a western entitled A
Town Called Mercy. Written by Toby Whithouse and again directed by Saul
Metzstein, the episode co-stars Adrian Scarborough and Ben Browder.
Steven
Moffat, Head Writer and Executive Producer, said: “Dinosaurs on a
Spaceship - what more do you need! The Doctor will come face to face
with some of the most monstrous creatures evolution has ever produced,
on some of the most monstrous sets we've ever built. We took one look at
Chris Chibnall's brilliant script and said to ourselves 'We're going to
need a bigger corridor'.
"And Toby Whithouse's A Town Called
Mercy takes us into a genre Doctor Who hasn't attempted since the
Sixties - it's a full blooded western. We knew from the start we need
some serious location shooting for this one, and given the most iconic
American setting imaginable, there was only one place to go - Spain."
Both episodes were shot earlier this year, with Dinosaurs on a Spaceship filmed in Cardiff. The show returns with a run of five followed by the Christmas special and a further eight episodes in 2013.
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