Thursday, February 09, 2006

Dalek Artist + Moffat?

Another name recently associated with Torchwood is concept designer Matt Savage. Like many others, he moved across the hall after finishing work on Doctor Who. He is a newcomer to the industry. Working on WHO with designer Ed Thomas has been his first TV gig. Prior to that he was an art department assistant on the films Batman Begins and Thunderbirds. (Let's try and not hold the latter film against him)

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Source: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk


Savage's artistic talents have already been recognised with awards and he looks to be yet another eager bright young star who will put his all into the Torchwood experience. A gallery of his work is viewable online at his personal site. You can closely examine his drawings of Captain Jack's sonic blaster and Chula ship.

If you have the time, watch a 3 minute video clip of him discussing redesigning the Daleks last year here. Can you believe he wanted to replace the infamous Dalek plunger with a claw? Thank goodness RTD and other more sensible members of the production were able to put the youngster in his place on that day.

Update - Be sure to check out the comments on this post. Our man on the inside says that Steven Moffat will be writing one story for season one of Torchwood!

2 comments:

Anthony Garnon said...

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!
Just visited Cardiff in Wales and saw Doctor Who "The Idiot's Lantern" being filmed before my eyes!!! I saw David Tennant (Whoever he is) and the pink lady herself Billie Piper. Between shots, a friendly production assistant talked to me, and rather naughtily told me some of the Torchwood news hes been hearing on set. Get ready for this, your going to love it!!!

Apparently Steven Moffatt has been asigned one episode to write after the success of "The Empty Child" two hander (which introduced Jack to the world!) and this year's "The Girl In The Fireplace". He'll return to write for the character he helped to create, and his script is now near completion. Apparently.

And the production assistant also said, "Him off that Shameless is doing one too". To me, this sounds like the great Paul Abott has been asked to write an episode, and has already accepted the invitation! He was asked to write last year's "Boomtown" script, but time pressures stopped him from doing so. But if this story is true, whoa!!!

The designer confirmed the April filming, but it's important to note that he WON'T be working on the show, so I'm afraid so far his information is purely rumour too. But at least it's rumour of the highest pedigree!

Besides, this week I got to see the 1950's in all its glory...

curls said...

Thanks so much for your info as always Jack. You are now welcome to post right on the page when you have any breaking news like this.

When it is super-spoily morsel about a future story plot, writing it in the comments is a good choice so people who don't want to see it can avoid it.