October 24th, 2015
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Omega to Return in 2017 K9 Big Screen Movie Timequake
“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!
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Anonymous
November 1st, 2023 - 3:54pmI’m happy that classic doctor who is on bbc iPlayer are you happy a swell
Crosby
April 24th, 2020 - 4:50pmIt’s 2020 now and we’re still waiting don’t think this will happen
SuperFireGamez
October 16th, 2016 - 10:53pmWOW!
Finn Fel-Fotch Pasameer Day
August 11th, 2016 - 8:59pmAmazing!
yognot
May 5th, 2016 - 3:41pmWell as long as K9 doesn’t have a son named Lumpy I’ll be okay with it.
Vinny
April 14th, 2016 - 2:23amThis has all the makings of this decades version of the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Anonymous
March 30th, 2016 - 5:39pmNot bbc so very small chances of that happening in afraid…
Phil
March 26th, 2016 - 1:00amI really hope it has the classic K-9 and since Omega is in it casting Peter Davison would be super cool. Since the title is Time Quake there is no reason we can’t see past doctor Cameos. Wonder if we will see Gallifray and Romana…
Anonymous
March 23rd, 2016 - 12:23pmCan’t wait for this!! I do have some questions. Can anyone help me?
1. Will this be canon to the Doctor Who TV series?
2. Will the BBC be behind the UK studio work?
3. Will this continue from where the K9 TV series left off, or completely reboot it?
4. Will the K9 in the film be a redesign of an existing K9 (like the TV series) or a brand new K9, like a K9 Mk 5?
Anonymous
March 20th, 2016 - 1:36pmif only the movie will come out today.
cman1O1dalek
March 10th, 2016 - 3:49pmHappy Bday K9!!
Emily Osborne
January 24th, 2016 - 11:41amI can not wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obsie
January 16th, 2016 - 7:03pmOh dear ! despite the notion that we’re all supposed to be waiting with baited breath about this, it simply boils down to one thing : an unmitigated disaster of thinking and execution. (ok, that’s technically two, lol) There is simply no way that “Timequake” is going to work. We’ll be waiting for The Doctor to appear somewhere or desperately listening for a mention of him; one snippet of dialogue referring to him is scarcely enough to warrant it’s production at all. I can only shake my head in despair that anyone gave the idea any credence at all.
Paul Edward Riddick
December 30th, 2015 - 7:25pmK-9 Series 2 Title:K-9 Adventures
Paul Edward Riddick
December 30th, 2015 - 7:24pmK-9 Series tile: K-9 Adventures
john
December 9th, 2015 - 9:09pmIm a hard core fan even i think its a mistake
booboo
November 22nd, 2015 - 1:44pmTV series as its not the same K9, there are actually several
Torchwood
November 22nd, 2015 - 11:42amWill it be K9 from Doctor who and The Sarah Jane Adventures or that K9 tv series??
Anonymous
November 18th, 2015 - 8:13amI can’t wait your not a true fan if your not looking forward to It K9 is epic the best robot dog in the world but I wish it could be released sooner.
Pudsy who ?
November 13th, 2015 - 7:54amK9 and omega sounds epic only remover the k9 tv series Evan if its a multi million movie doesn’t mean it will earn that much in box office I dought it will work very well
doctor who fan
November 5th, 2015 - 7:36pmi’m so exited but the movie is so far away!
starshipalaska
November 1st, 2015 - 11:51amOh God looking at that poster is like some kind of terrible, surreal dream. Never in a million years could I imagine that a movie with K9 would hit the big screen. I sort of admire the ambition I guess, but it’s just such a weird concept – K9 versus Omega is like some kind of fan fiction on a forum, great for hardcore fans but no way could it be enjoyed properly by the mainstream. I’m sorry but how can this possibly hope to compete against franchises like Star Wars The Force Awakens and Guardians of the Galaxy, it’s a whole different league. I have so many questions, it just feels like some kind of April Fools prank. What kind of budget is it getting? After his Australian produced pre-teen adventure series crashed and burned, how could they justify a blockbuster movie? We’re not talking Firefly being made into Serenity here people. There was no stellar writing/directing/acting in the K9 series, unlike Firefly, which fully deserved it’s movie… whatever, I imagine it will never enter proper production and at best be released direct to DVD. I’ll stop ranting now, but you get the picture, I just feel very pessimistic about this whole idea!
WonderfulUnknown
November 1st, 2015 - 2:13amK-9 hype!!!
Simeon
October 29th, 2015 - 7:42pmIt’s all to do with whether they were working for the BBC or were outside people hired to work on the show. Terry Nation created the Daleks for their TV appearance but they were still his creations and therefore could be used outside of the realms of the BBC show. However, Ray Cusick, the designer, was a BBC employee and so all his work on the show was owned by the BBC. Shame the greatest award he got for his work on the Daleks was a gold Blue Peter badge!
Anonymous
October 27th, 2015 - 7:24amActually, if you read the K9Official facebook page, and read what Bob Baker and Paul Tams say, you will find the K9 in the K9 tv series and this movie is K9 Mark One – the one built by Marius and left on Gallifrey with Leela. Whilst on Gallifrey he was updated with Gallifreyan technology and equipped with a regeneration device incase anything happend to him whilst on Time Lord missions.
Bow Ties Are Cool!
October 27th, 2015 - 1:53amSo excited! Can’t wait to go see it!