Mark Gatiss Has A Sequel Planned For Sleep No More!

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Spoiler warning! If you’ve not seen Sleep No More, stop reading!

The most divisive episode so far, Sleep No More, has polarised fans with its intriguing conception and underwhelming execution – its mixture of found footage techniques and familiar Doctor Who tropes has at least one ‘eye-catching’ idea – the sandmen, outer space bogeymen made from the sleep in the corner of your eye.

And it’s thanks to these monsters that Doctor Who got what it hasn’t had for a long time, an unhappy ending.

It’s something that delighted Mark Gatiss as he chatted to the Radio Times during the Doctor Who Festival in London.

“It does have an unhappy ending, yes,” Gatiss said. “Earthshock might be the last time that happened. The Doctor loses.”

So why did he decide to end the episode on such a downer?

“In my head the episode has a paranoid 70s bleakness to it, and all those films ended on an unhappy ending,” he explained. “I thought it was fascinating to do that, and obeying the rules of found footage, it needed a final twist. As with the whole format of the episode, it’s to ring the changes.

“It doesn’t mean they’re going to win eventually. The Doctor knows something’s wrong, so he’s not fooled…and I do have a sequel planned.”

A sequel! Now that is horrifying. So will it involve the Doctor tracking down the infectious footage, a ‘The Ring in Space’ as the Radio Times points out.

“The Ring in Space is a good name! Like The Ark in Space. I’ve got a good idea. Pleasing my inner fan, the idea of doing a pairing, like the Yeti stories, is rather lovely. It pleases my Doctor Who self.”

So would you like to see a sequel to Sleep No More? Where you underwhelmed by the experiment? Should Doctor Who tackle more tropes of the horror genre?

 

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