{"id":6366,"date":"2012-03-22T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:13:03","slug":"on-the-minister-of-chance-movie-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"On The Minister of Chance Movie Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received an e-mail today from the producers of The Minister of Chance<\/i><\/a> audio drama to announce the release of a short movie trailer.<\/p>\n

Before we get to the movie trailer, what exactly is<\/i> The Minister of Chance<\/i>? I have a hunch that many of you reading may not have heard of this.<\/p>\n

Well, it’s an audio drama by Dan Freeman. A decade ago, Freeman wrote and produced Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time<\/i> for the BBC, a five-part audio drama about the Doctor’s ultimate adventure. I discussed it in this long-ago blog post<\/a> in the context of pre-release material for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek<\/i> film. (Yes, this actually makes sense.) Death Comes to Time<\/i> is steeped in the mythology of the Time Lords, and one of the Time Lords in the audio drama is The Minister of Chance, a friend of the Doctor’s portrayed by Stephen Fry. Frankly, I liked the character of the Minister a lot; he offered a different perspective on a “friendly” Time Lord.<\/p>\n

It was rumored for a while that Freeman wanted to do a Doctor Who<\/i> spin-off centered on the Minister, and a year ago Freeman released on the Internet the first part of a new story about The Minister of Chance<\/i>, this time with Julian Wadham (best known to me from The English Patient<\/i>) in the role. Other parts were played by Doctor Who<\/i> actors Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann, both in very non<\/i>-Doctorish roles.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the Minister of Chance<\/i><\/a> website says about the production:<\/p>\n

Now in his fourth incarnation, defrocked Time Lord The Minister Of Chance finds himself saddled with ‘Kitty’, an ‘assistant’ he apparently cannot get rid of — and perilously entangled in the court intrigues and military politics of a forest planet on the brink of war. Jenny Agutter, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and Paul Darrow join Julian Wadham (The Iron Lady<\/i>) and Lauren Crace (EastEnders<\/i>) in a mould-breaking audio adventure that will take you to a spectacular world where science is heresy and magic is law…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A prologue and two episodes have been released, and they’re availble for free from iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Freeman is attempting to crowdfund the third episode, “Paludin Fields<\/a>,” and I made a contribution towards its production.<\/p>\n

And today they released this movie trailer<\/a> to garner more support for future Minister<\/i> efforts:
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