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Not all that glitters is gold

Peter Jackson: I’d Direct an Episode of Doctor Who In Exchange for a Dalek

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:00 am, March 22nd, 2013


Remember when Matt Smith said he wanted Peter Jackson to direct an episode of Doctor Who and Peter Jackson responded that yes, he would absolutely be OK with doing that?

Well, Peter Jackson remembers it. What’s more, he’s still very keen on the idea. He doesn’t even want money for it.

He just wants a Dalek.

Jackson met Steven Moffat around Christmastime and took pains to assure the Doctor Who showrunner that no, he wasn’t joking, just let him direct an episode already, dammit. “They don’t even have to pay me,” wrote Jackson in an Entertainment Weekly piece on Doctor Who, “But I have got my eye on one of those nice new gold-colored Daleks. They must have a spare one (hint, hint).”

(If Jackson did get his hands on one of the new Daleks, that would bring his count up to three—the two Daleks in the picture above are ones Jackson, a fan of the show almost since it began, owns himself. You planning to take over the world, PeeJ?)

When asked by EW to comment on Jackson’s offer, Moffat declined to say anything specific, noting instead that “You’d never get any information like that out of me!” (I imagine that statement was coupled with a sinister-sound cackle and a twist of his non-existent moustache.) However, he added: “We’re theoretically on board for anything, provided we’ve got a great story.”

Story? We can do story. Somebody get on that! Preferably it’d be set in New Zealand. Peter Jackson directing an episode of Doctor Who is something that needs to happen.

(via: TheOneRing.net)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/jamie.jeans Jamie Jeans

    OK, I gotta admit… as horrible as he was in making Gimli, the ONLY good thing about those LotR books, a complete joke in the movies… I gotta respect his payment decisions.

    Because if you were as well off as this man must be, I’d ask for some massive geeky item to do something in a favourite show of mine.

    “Be in the next Avengers movie?! YOU BET! Just gimmie a replica of Thor’s Hammer…”

  • Betty Windsor

    I don’t know anything about Doctor Who. I just came here to watch the commentors say mean things about Peter Jackson and LOTR. Because of course they will. :/

  • http://www.thenerdybird.com/ Jill Pantozzi

    Uh, what?

  • Anonymous

    Couldn’t he just get Weta to make him one? Don’t get me wrong, I WANT him to direct an episode, but I think he has the resources to acquire one of his own.

  • Anonymous

    But you need AUTHENTICITY. I mean, sure, WETA could make a Dalek and it would be awesome, but it would still be an IMITATION Dalek.

    It’s the collectible equivalent of eating at Denny’s. ;)

  • Betty Windsor

    It’s just a terrible fascination.

  • 00000

    The only good thing? Glad I don’t know you.

  • Anonymous

    Plus it gives everyone a chance to a little more awesome.

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