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Harry Potter director David Yates is set to direct BBC’s big screen adaptation of the sci-fi TV series Doctor Who.

Speaking to Variety he disclosed, "we're looking at writers now. We're going to spend two to three years to get it right. It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena".

Yates was keen to mention that despite the TV series’ success, his movie adaptation would take an entirely original approach to the Doctor Who universe.

"Russell T. Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside and start from scratch," he stated.

But with that said, the director still wants to ensure that the movie will carry over some of the classic TV series’ essence.

“We want a British sensibility,” asserted Yates, “but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we are looking at American writers too.”

With all the excitement this prospect is bound to evoke, fans of the Doctor will need to wait a while as the project is in the early stages with a release date still a few years away.