Doctor Who Confidential (Cutdown): Cybermen
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.