Post by matthewsee on Feb 13, 2013 19:15:35 GMT -5
The Thirteenth Floor is an unproduced story by Phil Ford and was intended to be the penultimate story of what turned out to be the final SJA season, a production that was precluded by Lis Sladen’s passing.
While The Thirteenth Floor did not get made DWM presented what the story would have looked like when it published the third drafts of the scripts for the two-part story in The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3, well as much as they were allowed to publish reason of which I will explain shortly.
The Thirteenth Floor takes place in a newspaper office when a journalist disappeared in the building on the said thirteenth floor even though the building does not have such a floor listed (a reflection of buildings in the real world not having a floor designated with that number due to superstitions with the number 13). This is complemented by a very eerie janitor nearby.
Somewhat plot conveniently the next day aspiring journalist Rani comes to this same newspaper office for work experience. She soon becomes intrigue about the missing journalist but that is where DWM has to leave the story due to it being adapted as a story for Wizards vs Aliens.
In the accompanying interview Russell T Davies quite rightly says that it wouldn’t be fair for DWM readers to know the complete story before having the chance to see it made for a different series in Wizards vs Aliens.
At the time of this interview Davies says that Ford had not started work on its adaptation for Wizards vs Aliens and therefore did not know how similar the Wizards vs Aliens version would be to the SJA one. He says that once the Wizards vs Aliens version is told perhaps another article would be done by DWM to look at the rest of the SJA version to see its similarities/differences with the Wizards vs Aliens one.
As Davies has noted by looking at the rest of the SJA version sometime in the future SJA will get a little more of its afterlife.
I estimate that by the time DWM gets a chance to present the rest of the SJA version it would be two and a half to three years since SJA came to its abrupt end and that is quite a lengthy afterlife for SJA.
As to what was presented of The Thirteenth Floor in the aforementioned DWM issue it was absolutely thrilling from the read of it and look forward to seeing the Wizards vs Aliens version and to DWM presenting what the rest of the SJA version was supposed to have look like.
While The Thirteenth Floor did not get made DWM presented what the story would have looked like when it published the third drafts of the scripts for the two-part story in The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3, well as much as they were allowed to publish reason of which I will explain shortly.
The Thirteenth Floor takes place in a newspaper office when a journalist disappeared in the building on the said thirteenth floor even though the building does not have such a floor listed (a reflection of buildings in the real world not having a floor designated with that number due to superstitions with the number 13). This is complemented by a very eerie janitor nearby.
Somewhat plot conveniently the next day aspiring journalist Rani comes to this same newspaper office for work experience. She soon becomes intrigue about the missing journalist but that is where DWM has to leave the story due to it being adapted as a story for Wizards vs Aliens.
In the accompanying interview Russell T Davies quite rightly says that it wouldn’t be fair for DWM readers to know the complete story before having the chance to see it made for a different series in Wizards vs Aliens.
At the time of this interview Davies says that Ford had not started work on its adaptation for Wizards vs Aliens and therefore did not know how similar the Wizards vs Aliens version would be to the SJA one. He says that once the Wizards vs Aliens version is told perhaps another article would be done by DWM to look at the rest of the SJA version to see its similarities/differences with the Wizards vs Aliens one.
As Davies has noted by looking at the rest of the SJA version sometime in the future SJA will get a little more of its afterlife.
I estimate that by the time DWM gets a chance to present the rest of the SJA version it would be two and a half to three years since SJA came to its abrupt end and that is quite a lengthy afterlife for SJA.
As to what was presented of The Thirteenth Floor in the aforementioned DWM issue it was absolutely thrilling from the read of it and look forward to seeing the Wizards vs Aliens version and to DWM presenting what the rest of the SJA version was supposed to have look like.