Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Doctor Who Lockdown cinema posters

It all started when the lovely Emily Cook ( @Emily_Rosina ) sent out a tweet suggesting that, under lockdown conditions, wouldn't it be lovely to have a nationwide tweet-a-long to the first episode of Doctor Who (2005) 'Rose' on its fifteenth anniversary. By all accounts the suggestion snowballed into a worldwide trending event for which Russell T Davies himself appeared on Twitter to join in and even supplied a new ending for the episode. 

The tweet-a-longs are now a regular event. Loads of creatives join in with the fun along with many of the cast, writers and producers. 

I did my bit and added a few retro cinema posters to the melee. A few. I say "a few". I've now done ten - one for each episode. I even threw in a few classic series stories too.

Each of these posters is (sometimes loosely) based on ones for old feature films. I'll tell you which at the bottom of this post but in the meantime, see if you can spot them. Some are pretty obscure... 











The designs are based on the following feature film posters:

Dalek - Kronos (1957)
The Eleventh Hour - The Blue Bird (1940)
The Girl in the Fireplace - The Virgin Queen (1955)
Human Nature/The Family of Blood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Heaven Sent - Death in Venice (1971)
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Planet of the Spiders - Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Remembrance of the Daleks - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1960)
Rose - Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Stolen Earth/Journey's End - War of the Worlds (1953)

If you've enjoyed these posters, then you can show your appreciation to the artist by buying him a cup of coffee via his Ko-fi account by clicking here. He really does appreciate it and needs constant coffee to keep him awake to produce this tat.