Benedict Cumberbatch, who is speeding his way up the fame ladder, has chatted to Total Film about his role as Smaug the dragon in the Hobbit trilogy. Although he was playing a rather large dragon – he also acted the role, donning a motion capture suit and performing in character. You just have to lose […]
The Hobbit video diary – the last of the filming & Comic-Con
I don’t know if you’ve been following Peter Jackson’s video diaries from The Hobbit but this one is worth watching. This won’t be the last video diary but it is the last one from filming. Didn’t Comic-Con look scary? All those die hard fans. You can tell that Peter Jackson isn’t really looking forward to […]
Cumberbatch as The Master for Dr Who’s 50th anniversary?
Geek Native has written about Benedict Cumberbatch playing the Master before. We’ve even speculated he might appear as or Omega – another powerful Time Lord. Last night The Express, a British tabloid, kicked off speculation again by citing unnamed sources and suggesting that he’ll be The Master for Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary. Cumberbatch and previously […]
Cumberbatch and Doctor Who star join Star Trek 2
It’s easy to say; “Wait – Benedict Cumberbatch never actually appeared in Doctor Who” when you see headlines like Benedict Cumberbatch Lands Villain Role in Star Trek 2 followed by Doctor Who star scores mysterious Star Trek 2 role. Sure, Cumberbatch plays Sherlock in Steven Moffat‘s re-working of the classic detective. Moffat, of course, is […]
The Church of Omega [Doctor Who, Speculation]
At the start of the year, before series 6 of Doctor Who, this blog speculated whether Benedict Cumberbatch would play Omega in the new series. That would mean Geek Native thought Omega might be making a return. The argument – and other bloggers have also made it – is a simple one. This is the […]
Hobbit news: Stephen Fry joining, Weaving returns and photo of McKellen as Gandalf
Here’s a quick The Hobbit news round-up. It’s about time we’ve found the time to mention this rather important movie here at Geek native. First up is the news that Stephen Fry will be joining The Hobbit’s cast along with the seven foot tall Conan Stevens. Fry will be playing The Master of Laketown. Conan […]
Free to Download: Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Nightjar
Native geeks will remember Benedict Cumberbatch not just form his impressive performance as Steven Moffat’s Sherlock Holmes but for speculation that he may have a forthcoming Doctor Who role. The possibility of either a Cumberbatch Master or Omega has been put forward. In the Nightjar he stars – at least his voice stars – in […]
Will Benedict Cumberbatch play Omega in Doctor Who?
If you check the histories of Gallifrey they will likely say the two most important Time Lords of all time are Rassilon and Omega. Working together Omega and Rassilon brought time travel to Gallifrey. Omega’s experiments on a device known as the Hand of Omega and designed to control reactions within a star was the […]
Benedict Cumberbatch to play the Master? Or just messing with Doctor Who?
Is this getting silly? Pretty much everyone who watched Sherlock on the weekend enjoyed it. Benedict Cumberbatch was good. Lots of people could detect the Moffat writing style in the show. Nearly as many people thought Cumberbatch’s Holmes oozed “Doctorness” about it. In fact, the speculation that Cumberbatch would be the natural appointment as the […]
Doctor Who writers to pen new Sherlock
File this under “Ooh; looks interesting”. The BBC are gearing up for three new, 90-minute, Sherlock Holmes films. This new Sherlock mini-series was co-crated by Steven Moffat (in charge of the Matt Smith season of Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (who played Doctor Lazarus for the Tenth Doctor and who wrote Victory of the Daleks). […]
