"Doctor Who" Season 10 has unleashed the official sneak peek for its Christmas special this year. The episode, titled "The Return of Doctor Mysterio," will feature some brain-swapping aliens.
The "Doctor Who" Season 10 Christmas special is set in New York, where the Doctor faces a masked superhero named Ghost who is described as a metahuman, Metro reported. Not a lot is known about the character, except that he knows how to smash windows and deliver some really witty jokes. The character is played by Justin Chatwin of "Shameless."
On his new role, Chatwin commented that working with the cast and crew of "Doctor Who" Season 10 has been "one of the most fun and rewarding projects I've ever had the pleasure of being involved with."
"What we've sort of made here is a new ironic, goodhearted superhero movie...which hopefully they'll want to repeat every year. As long as I get a cut of it," TVLine quoted the "Doctor Who" star Peter Capaldi as saying about the upcoming Christmas special.
As Capaldi puts it, the Christmas special is definitely going to go big on the whole superhero concept. As to what inspired the idea, creator Steven Moffat revealed that he has always loved superheroes and that his favorite is Clark Kent.
The Christmas special trailer also showed us another villain who looks like he was plucked from a "James Bond" film. German actor Aleksandar Jovanovic is playing one of the villains the Doctor is up against in the upcoming Christmas special.
"Doctor Who" fans would also be excited to learn that Nardole will appear on the 2016 Christmas special. "Nardole is quite different from your normal companion," Christel Dee said about the character. "Most companions are, like, impressed by everything - and it's not that Nardole's not impressed - but what I like about him is he's almost like an anti-companion."
Fans can expect to be blown away by this year's "Doctor Who" Christmas special, especially since Mark Gatiss has called it one of Moffat's best ever scripts and that it made him cry.
"Doctor Who" Season 10 2016 Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day on BBC One and BBC America.