'Drive' director wants to make 'Doctor Who' movie

The director of Drive had told Metro that he’d love to make a film version of Doctor Who.

Nicolas Winding Refn was chatting to the newspaper ahead of the release of his new movie, Neon Demon, in UK cinemas this Friday.

The Danish filmmaker said: “I love Doctor Who. I like the imagination.”

However, Refn admitted: “I guess I’m a fan of the old Doctor Who. I haven’t really seen a lot of the new one. I like Tom Baker.”

Drive actor Ryan Gosling revealed last year that he cast Matt Smith in his movie Lost River after seeing him in Doctor Who.

He commented: “One day I was watching TV. I heard Matt Smith’s voice coming at me. It was Doctor Who and there was an episode where he was in a car screaming at these aliens and telling them where to go. Like a boss. Just telling all these spaceships what was what.”

He explained: “As an actor I know that’s pretty hard to do, because I’m pretty sure those spaceships weren’t there. I thought, ‘Who is this guy?'” There’s no-one like him. He’s like one of those actors from the Seventies, just themselves and nobody else. I said, ‘I have to work with that guy.’ So I tracked him down.”