Doctor Who Confidential (Cutdown): Cybermen

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Episode 6 of Series 2, Doctor Who Confidential (Cutdown) - Cybermen

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00:00They're back.

00:11These brutal bad boys are out to destroy yet again.

00:15Only this time, they're more chilling than ever.

00:22Enter the Cybermen.

00:51It's a very cold Saturday morning in Cardiff Bay.

01:04It's the beginning of us finding out about cyber's industries.

01:08There's a lot of people involved and there's a big crane which is always quite difficult

01:12to choreograph.

01:14Filming in Cardiff, set in London, we take down any signs that sort of refer to Wales.

01:20We'll put up the odd underground sign, a couple of added touches and fingers crossed

01:25we get away with it.

01:26Hold it there.

01:27I'd like to do a two shot that develops and stays on you all the way through, David, so

01:43I get a single out of you.

01:44So, basically what we've got here is that at a certain moment, which we will tell you

01:55by saying stop, okay, you all stop because you're getting info on your ear pieces, alright?

02:00Two things to add to that are when you stop, you come to a natural stance, you don't all

02:05suddenly stop with one leg up in the air or whatever and you're hypnotised.

02:27I think what's tricky is all the starting and stopping because everyone has to stop

02:30dead as this download happens in their heads.

02:35What are they all doing?

02:41Stop.

02:42It is using things that are happening in the modern world and maybe that we have a slight

02:47paranoid fear about as well, this whole idea that we get information downloaded.

02:52We download it into our computers, we download it into our phones, it's just a short hop

02:55to downloading it straight into your head.

02:57People want the latest technology.

03:00That's what they want, that's what they're after and, you know, how many people do you

03:02see walking around with the Bluetooth attachment now?

03:07That's a bit tricky actually.

03:08It's a sort of a prop that we could really do without for 40 essays.

03:14Tapping into sort of modern paranoias and modern obsessions, you know, things that people

03:18get joyous about as well, is upgrading, that notion of upgrading, that notion that every

03:23year you can change your phone and you're an MP3 player and if you don't keep up with

03:28the technology then you're going to get left behind.

03:30Like Bluetooth attachments but everyone's connected together.

03:36It's on my phone.

03:37News, international news, sports, weather.

03:41I think it's always good to just tap into those slight worries that people have about

03:46modern life, mobile phones which people are now absolutely reliant on and yet at the same

03:51time I think we're all still slightly nervous of them.

03:53They get it direct, downloaded right into their heads.

03:57We don't really understand them, most of us.

03:59We don't really know how this information comes into this little plastic thing that

04:03we carry about.

04:04Daily Download published by Cybus Industries.

04:10That's what's chilling about those episodes.

04:12That's what's clever about them too.

04:14That's sort of where the Cybermen come from anyway, this whole idea that modern technology

04:18will slowly replace us and that modern technology is ultimately out to get us.

04:23Okay, I give up.

04:24Let's go and see him.

04:28Good.

04:29That's what we see throughout that episode, just this whole idea that it'll just slowly

04:33creep up on us and we won't quite notice it happening which just makes the fantastical

04:37scene that worryingly bit closer.

04:41See you soon.

04:42See you next week.

04:43Alright.

04:44We brought the Cybermen back because I think you should always bring back the great, good,

04:47iconic Doctor Who monsters.

04:48It's working.

04:50I hardly think working is the correct word.

04:54There's a very powerful businessman called John Lubick who runs Cybus Industries who

04:58is dying and is using all his technological might to find ways to upgrade, to find ways

05:05to upgrade the human body and to find a form that means that his brilliant brain can survive.

05:10The brain has been welded to the exoskeleton.

05:14You are John Lubick.

05:18Skin of metal and a body that will never age or die.

05:25I envy it.

05:28The whole point of his existence is to create this creature that is made of metal to give

05:36human beings longevity to last forever.

05:41And to survive into the 21st century, these metal monsters had to look the part.

05:45In many ways they look like something made in a science fiction program in the year 2006.

05:52We just started the way we do with anything which is do drawings and pictures and work

05:58from there and present them up.

05:59They had to be Cybermen for the 21st century.

06:04Also they have to look really like metal.

06:07Russell really wants them to look machined.

06:09One of the most important things in my mind was to stop calling them silver.

06:14Steel, that's what they're made of.

06:16That's really what they always were made of I think in my mind.

06:20No one person sort of designed it.

06:22It really was a team effort.

06:24I love them.

06:25They're absolutely gorgeous.

06:30An idyllic country home in the tranquil Welsh countryside.

06:33It's a cold and misty Monday in the sleepy Vale of Glamorgan and preparation is underway

06:37for the social event of the century.

06:39It all seems to be going to plan.

06:41But not for long.

06:45Nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

06:47In that service.

06:48If you want to know what's going on, work in the kitchen.

06:51The whole thing started to come together in this script.

06:53The Cybermen were 40 years old and we wanted a very rich Jackie.

06:56And they started to go, oh actually, what if it's her 40th?

07:00Now I'm not giving a speech.

07:02What better thing could happen than the French windows are smashed in by great big monsters.

07:07Cut!

07:17And they're invaded by Cybermen, which is lovely.

07:20We have one three hour session basically to do that moment of those Cybermen crashing through the windows.

07:29By the time we've finished, it feels like there are 20 Cybermen in that room.

07:33Okay, let's start with the first take please.

07:35And minor please.

07:37Okay guys.

07:42Are we running?

07:44Absolutely terrified. Here we go.

07:46In the end, I hope that you'll find it terrifying.

07:48Okay, last take.

07:50Action!

08:03Everybody left in here.

08:05The light doesn't want to be out there.

08:08I ain't putting to rest.

08:11I ain't putting to rest.

08:14I ain't putting to rest.

08:17I ain't putting to rest.

08:28Time for the Cybermen to take centre stage.

08:31And the job of creating that spine-chilling voice lies with one man and his microphone.

08:35Here I am with my lip mic, and my ring modulator here.

08:41I hear their lines coming in here.

08:44I speak into here. It comes out on a speaker over there.

08:513, 4, 5, take 2, 8, camera mark.

08:53Action!

08:54You are not compatible.

08:56What happens then?

08:58You will be deleted.

09:02Ah!

09:05Go!

09:24You know, part of the point of the Cybermen is how frightening they are en masse.

09:29The Cybermen are, I guess, Doctor Who's most military monsters.

09:34Jack!

09:36They're the big, scary army. We've done it.

09:40So, could this finally mean the bitter end for our fearless friend?

09:44Is this almighty force too powerful for even the Doctor to talk his way out of?

09:49But this is a surrender!

09:51You will be deleted.

09:53Does he survive? Is this the end of him?

09:55All I can tell you is, watch out for Mickey.

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