In an interview with IGN, actor Ncuti Gatwa teased what’s forward for his first full sequence taking part in the Physician in Physician Who.
“There’s a complete bunch of mythology that [Showrunner] Russell [T Davies] is bringing in, there’s a complete pantheon full of various villains and lore and mythology that he’s bringing into the present. [It’s] simply very thrilling and really indicative of the brand new adventures we’ll be occurring in Physician Who.”
There are portends of this within the three Physician Who sixtieth anniversary specials.
Within the first particular The Star Beast, the Meep declared “I’ll escape and have my revenge. So that you beware, Physician, as a result of there’s yet another factor.” including “A creature with two hearts is such a uncommon factor. Simply wait until I inform… the Boss.”
Within the second particular Wild Blue Yonder, the Physician launched the thought of superstition to the Not-things, who wish to play our “vicious video games and win” in our “noisy, boiling universe.” The Physician fearful about invoking a superstition on the fringe of the universe, the place the partitions are skinny and all issues are attainable.
Within the third particular The Giggle, the villainous Toymaker spoke of “The One Who Waits”, the one participant he didn’t dare face — then later warned the Physician “My legions are coming.”
Gatwa additionally spoke to the bi-generation phenomenon, the place there at the moment are two Docs and one other TARDIS for his Physician. He advised IGN that there will likely be “little bits” of story associated to the Fifteenth Physician’s bi-generated standing however assured that his Physician is the Physician in his personal proper.
“Fifteen’s origin story is simply the Physician’s origin story; he’s absolutely simply the subsequent Physician within the line. It’s a brand new mythology that Russell has created, that the Physician can regenerate absolutely or double.”
A brand new 8-episode Physician Who sequence starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will debut in Might 2024.