Monsters in Metropolis (audio story)
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Monsters in Metropolis was the third and final story in the audio anthology Lost Warriors, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by John Dorney and featured Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.
Publisher's summary
Berlin, 1927. The making of a science fiction legend. But death stalks the film set and history is not what the Doctor expects it to be. And this new ‘Machine Man’ is a more terrifying vision of humanity’s future than Fritz Lang had in mind...
Plot
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Cast
- The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
- Fritz Lang - Nick Wilton
- Helen Goldwyn - Anna Dreyfus
- Dieter Jovanovic - Peter Bankole
- Olaf Richter - Raj Ghatak
- Cyberman - Nicholas Briggs
References
- The Doctor names Sunrise, The General and The Wings as being among the great works of the silent film era.
- The Doctor notes the huge influence Metropolis had on Star Trek and Star Wars.
Notes
- This was the first story in a performed medium in which the Ninth Doctor encounters the Cybermen. Both Supremacy of the Cybermen and The Patchwork Pierrot had previously made the match in print. The Ninth Doctor also came across the inert Cyberman helmet in Dalek, a scene which Matt Fitton felt made their eventual encounter "inevitable". (VOR 152)
- John Dorney's initial thoughts for the story were for it to be a celebrity historical in the style of the RTD-era. He knew very little about Metropolis or Fritz Lang upon being asked to submit some story ideas, although he had seen M. He later watched Metropolis with friends for a podcast and formed further ideas around the film, leading him to conduct his own research into its director and production. Much of these details made it into the script. (VOR 152)
- The Cybermen were not originally planned to have appeared in the Lost Warriors box set. Their inclusion in this story came about at Dorney's suggestion as he continued to develop ideas about his Metropolis storyline. (VOR 152)
Continuity
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External links
- Official Monsters in Metropolis page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
- ↑ Although the synopsis claims that the story is set in 1927, dialogue within the story actually establishes the setting as 1925. Likewise in the real world Metropolis was filmed in 1925 but released in 1927.
