Last month, Season 10 of Doctor Who returned!
You may not have seen Doctor Who
But must have heard of this famous IP
[Doctor Who] was originally broadcast between 1963 and 1989
Restarted in 2005
It has long been part of British pop culture
Have a very loyal following
Speaking of the reboot of [Doctor Who].
That's inseparable from Steve Magic
Steve Moffat is nicknamed "Magic" by Chinese audiences, and it's certainly not just because of the harmonics.
Behind the scenes, he manipulates two of the most charming and powerful men: Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes.
He has been obsessed with things with magic since he was a child. Looking at his characters, the audience can always be unable to extricate themselves, like smoking spiritual opium. Who knows? Maybe he was really hiding magic.
A little Muggle
Magic has been a fan of Doctor Who since childhood. In his recollection, the 70s were the domain of Star Trek, and only he held the Doctor Who comic and did not let go.
▲ He clearly remembers that the book in the picture, Doctor Who and Dyrick, was purchased in 1973
That day, he read three copies of Doctor Who. But the bookstore clerk glanced at him: a little boy of eleven or twelve, chubby. Does he have the money to buy these books? They snobbishly gave him an old copy of Doctor Who.
"No! I want those cool bombs! Magic finally returned the beloved book contentedly. For a long time, he soaked in these books all day.
Love magic
Magic worked as a teacher for a while as an adult, but soon turned to his beloved screenwriting career.
▲ The episode that made him stand out was "Junior Newspaper"
After that, he still aimed at the youth audience and planned to write a school drama. At the planning meeting, the producer heard him excitedly talk about the unpleasant divorce experience and proposed: Why not write a story based on this experience?
So there was "Joking Apart"
In the second season of "Junior Newspaper", he added a character based on his wife's little three, so that all the bad luck could happen to him.
In Jokes, he's even more unscrupulous. When he learned that the boy was still a fan of the "Juvenile Newspaper", he was even more angry: "Does he have to sleep with my wife?" The average fan just writes to me! This paragraph was also added to the film by him.
Three pit diggers
He did dream of becoming the screenwriter of Doctor Who. "But if I want to be its screenwriter, I can't just write a play like this. I had to write my own play first and make them think I was good enough. ”
▲Of course, the results are good. He really became one of the writers of Doctor Who
How many fans love and hate this. Obsessed with the plot he wrote, and anxious about the long wait.
Knowing the working mode of this pit digging maniac will only make you more angry. When he wasn't in a hurry, he sat in his room and waited for inspiration to come to him. When the inspiration cherub did not come, he went home to the point and held a meeting the next day to spur himself and his colleagues.
When the planning meeting is imminent, this makes fans happy. He could only shut himself in the house and stare at the window "until he was shocked by the new idea."
Unbridled modernization
The pit of Doctor Who is getting bigger and bigger, but he is not enough. He and Mark Gatiss were both screenwriters for Doctor Who, so they often took the same train to cardiff's set
▲ This Doctor Who Peter Capalti, Magic Ted and Gartis 2015 promotional image
On the train journey, the two talked about Holmes, and they wondered why no one had moved the great detective into the modern era.
After returning home, Magic told his wife Sue about it: "Should someone do this?" If it wasn't for us, it would be really unpleasant. ”
As a producer, Sue can't use up execution. Her first reaction was, "Why not?" Soon, she took her husband to find an investment.
A year later, in 2010, the pilot episode of "Sherlock" came out
Wu Fast Food Book
For Magic, Sherlock is not a literary masterpiece, but it is precisely this that attracts him. "Modern people are taking its adaptations more and more seriously, as if it were Jane Austen. But in fact, children love to read. ”
▲ On the set of "Sherlock", the popularity of Magic and McGot may not lose to "Sherlock" and "Watson"
Magic had loved to read these books as a child and was a bookworm. But he held the Chronicles of Narnia and abandoned the Christian parable, "I read fast food literature."
Lu is emotional
Magic's understanding of Sherlock Holmes was different from that of ordinary people. When people are fascinated by the high intelligence of this great detective, he spares no effort to reveal Sherlock's bottom: the emotional big boy.
▲ "He (Sherlock) is a person with a lot of feelings, but he decided to put this side away and let himself be distracted. ”
Because the screenwriters themselves are "seriously emotional". The characters he portrays are the same, except that Doctor Who and Sherlock express their emotions awkwardly.
"Doctor Who is easily swayed by emotions. He wanted to pretend to be arrogant and supreme, but eventually he would cry uncontrollably. ”
Seven Magicians
I guess magic must be a Hufflepuff student. He is introverted, and although he can speak one-to-many on stage, if it is in the room and there are living people around, he can only hide behind Su.
▲ Sue and Magic, a good partner in life, a good partner at work
Hufflepuff was born, and although he was as introverted as magically strong— everyone who had seen [Where to Find Fantastic Beasts] knew it. While he was worried about his two children, he also devoted himself to the creation of "Shenxia" and "Doctor Who", two sons.
Sometimes, he lamented that he was so busy that he had nowhere to hide. If you hide for a day and don't care, the problem will immediately snowball.
After season ten, he will retire from Doctor Who, but for Sherlock, he denies that season four is the final season. The magic will continue, and the drama will always come again.