Steven Moffat is returning to the world of time travel in a project very different from Doctor Who. The showrunner is coming back with an adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveller’s Wife, which is set to air on HBO.
However, Steven Moffat has said that The Time Traveller’s Wife will be very different from Doctor Who.
“Time travel is kind of [the only connection],” Moffat told us at the annual Radio Times Covers Party. “It’s actually very very different. Although I happily riffed on the Time Traveller’s Wife a couple of times in Doctor Who with Girl in the Fireplace and River Song, actually time travel is a problem to the characters in Time Traveller’s Wife. They don’t want to be in that film. They want to be in when Harry Met Sally.”
Steven Moffat has admitted that the characters of River Song and Amy Pond were heavily influenced by the story of Clare and Henry.
“It’s a love story about ordinary people trying to live decent lives, complicated by the really annoying intrusion of time travel,” Moffat said. “It’s a very very different kind of show. They wish they weren’t in sci-fi, that’s the difference. Doctor Who loves being in sci-fi.”
Moreover, it looks like the fans wouldn’t have to wait too long to see how the story will pan out.
“I’ve written half of, two of the four Inside Mans, and I’m well into Time Traveller’s Wife,” Moffat said. “So yeah yeah, it’s all going well I think.”
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