00:00Alright, so in the previous video I talked about major future links to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
00:07and the movies of Oliver Stone present in 1980 naval time travel adventure The Final Countdown.
00:17Actress Carey Mulligan, who is in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Gatsby in 2013,
00:23was in a brilliant episode of British science fiction television series Doctor Who in 2007.
00:32This was Blink, written by Stephen Moffat.
00:35So really, there are Doctor Who links in The Final Countdown produced 26 years prior.
00:42Writer Jerry Davis, he penned 11 episodes of Doctor Who, including a classic 1967 Patrick Troughton serial,
00:52The Tomb of the Cybermen.
00:55For the Final Countdown screenplay, Davis collaborated with David Ambrose, Thomas Hunter, and Peter Powell.
01:02Blink features an alien menace, the Weeping Angels.
01:06This enemy crops up later in the series with Mad Smith's Doctor.
01:14Karen Gillan and Alice Kingston were in The Time of Angels.
01:19Episode 4, series 5, broadcast in 2010.
01:24The story had a major impact on the direction of the series.
01:27Oliver Stone and Gatsby's Leonardo DiCaprio were going to collaborate at one point on the movie adaptation of
01:37Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho.
01:40The resulting 2000 film reinvigorated Christian Bell's career after he played investment banker Patrick Bateman.
01:50The 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, played Bateman in the Stage Theatrical Musical in London in 2013.
01:58The 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, played Bateman in 2013.
01:58The 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, played Bateman in 2013.
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