Edgar Wright's Doctor Who Would Fix A 20 Year Old Missed Opportunity
While Edgar Wright has already denied rumors of directing an upcoming episode of Doctor Who, the filmmaker's involvement would resolve a missed opportunity from almost 20 years ago. When rumors of his involvement in Doctor Who season 14 were published by GQ, Edgar Wright quote tweeted the article, simply stating "Untrue!". The director's public denial hasn't stopped Doctor Who fans from speculating on social media about the potential involvement of Edgar Wright on an upcoming episode.
Wright isn't the first big-name director to be linked to Doctor Who, there were persistent rumors around a potential Peter Jackson-directed episode during Steven Moffat's era, while High Rise director Ben Wheatley and Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay both worked on several of Peter Capaldi's Doctor Whoepisodes. Edgar Wright was a Doctor Who fan as a child, and shared a photo of himself dressed as Fifth Doctor Peter Davison in the run-up to the show's 50th anniversary in 2013.
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Edgar Wright's denial of his involvement with the next series of Doctor Who merely shifted the focus to speculating on his potential involvement in the 60th-anniversary special. It remains to be seen whether Wright is deliberately sitting on the information until a suitable time following Jodie Whittaker's departure, or if he's plainly telling the truth. Given the announcement of both David Tennant and Catherine Tate's return and the start of filming on the 60th, Wright's involvement, or lack thereof, may be confirmed soon. However, as with the resurfaced rumors of Hugh Grant playing the Doctor, Edgar Wright potentially directing an episode of Doctor Who also almost happened decades earlier. Having been
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