COMING SOON
DOCTOR WHO - FORTITUDE
OUT IN MARCH 2016
SYNOPSIS: For centuries, the Cybermen have been extinct and their disappearance has forever remained a mystery... until now. The Doctor and Pip arrive on Telos - once the Cybermen's home world, just as a scientific discovery team uncovers what they believe to be the prototype of a robotic Cyber drone a signal is activated awakening a long lost cyber army underground, all around them, The Cybermen begin to rise from the dead and The Doctor and Kara are trapped in the 'Fortitude'.
NOTES: How could you not bring The Cybermen back? they are a great creation and there's nothing I like more than a good Cyberman story. William Scott emailed me with an idea that he had for a Cyberman story, but he wasn't quite sure about how to develop it. So myself and Christopher Harris decided to help him write the story and it would be credited to William Scott and Christopher Harris. The original synopsis was The Cybermen were trapped in this prison on Telos and were loosing power and what would happen if they're power was restored and the fortress they were held in became one giant trap to lure people in to resurrecting the Cybermen. It was a good idea, just no basics were there about where to begin or what to do or anything, so we started with the Cybermen, found out what there purpose was in the story and how the doctor and pip come in to it later. It was all about working out where the story was going as we were writing it, something that was very tricky to do because normally we have the story planned out and I know as the writer what is going to happen not in this case. This was a matter of working out your story as you go along.
Daniel Bury, 20th of March 2016
I don't think we've had a decent Cyberman story since 1982 when Earthshock came out, so it was very hard not to fall into the trap of writing something too complex that it was crap and made no sense. Even if it is just for fan fiction. It's hard to write a good Cyberman story that flows well and achieves true honesty in its story telling, I think the only two Cybermen stories I can think of that do that are "The Tomb of the Cybermen" (1967) and "Earthshock" (1982) and the trick there was not to copy what those stories did because otherwise the story that you are telling has no originality its just basically a cheap retelling of a good story which you've copied. So it was hard to find the basics of what could make the idea of what William was thinking effective. I think we may have come up with something which on the face of it is close to what William's original ideas were but there are elements of my writing in there and Dan's writing as well, so it was a team effort at the end of the day.
Christopher Harris, 20th of March 2016
