Ben Wheatley is to direct two episodes of Doctor Who.
Kill List’s Ben Wheatley is to direct two episodes of Doctor Who.
The acclaimed filmmaker will helm the first two instalments of the BBC sci-fi drama’s eighth series, Screen Daily reports.
Series eight – to air in 2014 – will be the first to feature Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor, with the Thick of It star replacing current lead Matt Smith in the show’s 2013 Christmas special.
“I am very excited and honoured to be asked to direct the first two episodes of the new series of Doctor Who,” said Wheatley. “I’ve been a fan since childhood.
“I’m really looking forward to working with Peter Capaldi and finding out where Steven Moffat is planning to take the new Doctor.”
Wheatley’s past credits include 2012’s Sightseers and episodes of Ideal and The Wrong Door.
He most recently helmed psychedelic civil-war film A Field in England starring Reece Shearsmith, who will portray Patrick Troughton in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary drama biopic ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’.
Doctor Who returns to BBC One for its 50th special ‘The Day of the Doctor’ – starring Matt Smith and David Tennant – on Saturday, November 23
Source Digital Spy