John Hurt Archives

The production values are good, and this will be a book that you will be able to game from for years from now. Plus it has Tennant, Matt Smith and John Hurt right on the cover How can you not like that? Mostly everyone loves Tom Baker's Doctor and his long run on the series introduced a[...]

Adam Savage of the Mythbusters filmed himself going around this years San Diego Comic Con in his replica John Hurt / Kane Enviromental Suit from Alien for Tested, the youtube channel of he and Jaime Hyneman. He may not be the only celebrity to try walking the floor in disguise, but he is definitely the only[...]

Chris Evans is brooding and anguished as the reluctant rebel leader, Tilda Swinton petty and craven, yet pathetic as a political party hack possibly inspired by Margaret Thatcher, but without the elocution lessons and the media training, John Hurt is weary and furtive as the wise elder nearing the end of his time, Alison Pill[...]

I'm tempted to say something like, "No, the John Hurt War Doctor is just something that happened in THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR, THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR and THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR on television." If it happens on the TV, it's canonical, unless it isn't (For example, no-one seems entirely sure whether we get[...]

Eight seems appropriate don't you think? So, have you watched The Night Of The Doctor yet? Go on, off you pop.

"I wanted to be ginger! I've never been ginger" – David Tennant, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion "Still not ginger!" – Matt Smith, Doctor Who: The End Of Time "He realises that he's actually got ginger hair" – Matt Smith on John Hurt in the new issue of SciFiNow. Copies of the magazine have dropped today, with a[...]

I've been to Gallifrey One a couple times even. I've enjoyed all the talk about the 50th anniversary, and all the theories on the message board since the mention of The Valeyard at the end of The Name Of The Doctor.  The Valeyard was first seen in The Trial Of A Timelord, in the Colin Baker 6th Doctor era, and[...]

Something we managed to miss a whole month ago. TV, comic and novel writer Paul Cornell wrote a blog post about his upcoming final Doctor Who comic book

It has been Bleeding Cool's assertion for quite some time that John Hurt is playing the ninth incarnation of the Time Lord mostly known as The Doctor in the show Doctor Who… which pushes the other incarnations up one, Christopher Eccleston is now ten, David Tennant is eleven, Matt Smith is twelve and Peter[...]

Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt will be battling an iconic villain in the upcoming 50th anniversary Doctor Who special – the fearsome Daleks. The BBC have just posted three new images from the upcoming episode and they feature the Daleks surrounded by flames. Brendon and Rich were both at the Doctor Who panel[...]

But add that to the clothing choice of a certain John Hurt on the set has led to some entertaining speculation. Note, as I said, that this is pure speculation, but there's always a possibility, however doubtful, that it might be true Know that going in. So who is John Hurt really playing? What if he's… The[...]