It appears  that Scottish comic book writer and screenwriter Grant Morrison would like to be part of the Doctor Who writing team, something that would be very exciting if it actually happened.

Apparently Morrison has tried to establish contact with Steven Moffat, as revealed at the recent MorrisonCon at Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel.

Grant added that a friend of his who had worked with both writer Mark Gatiss and The Grant Moff pitched the idea, requesting that Morrison get in touch himself…

In order to push the case, screenwriter Max Landis who also sat on the panel prompted the audience into a mass tweeting of Mark Gatiss with the hashtag of #letgrantmorrisonwritedrwho.

Morrison, who has written for comic series such as Superman, Batman, X-Men and Judge Dredd, would be a brilliant choice to write for Doctor Who as he is well-known for using non-linear narratives within his stories which would fit in well with the Steven Moffat era. Neil Gaiman certainly proved that a comic book writer can pen an excellent Doctor Who episode. After all, Grant has previous – he wrote the comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine in the 1980s, and was responsible for several stories (such as The World Shapers, Changes and Culture Shock) which have been collected together and reissued over the past few years.

However, at this stage, this is all conjecture and nothing is set in stone until it is announced. It’s certainly a gamble getting a writer involved in Doctor Who for television when they’ve had no previous episodes to back them up but we all took a chance with Simon Nye and that went amazingly well!

As always, we’ll keep you up to date with any developments that we hear of but if you have a certain piece of work that Grant Morrison has written that you think is very Doctor Who-ish then we would love to hear about it in the comments section below.