The actor declined to return to the sci-fi series for the anniversary episode – titled The Day of the Doctor – in 2013, which starred Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith alongside returning Time Lords David Tennant and Tom Baker.
Speaking about how hard it was to write The Day of the Doctor on The Whoniverse Show, Moffat said: “Matt Smith was out of contract. David Tennant wanted to see a script. Christopher Eccleston wanted to see a script.
"So I got about two-thirds of the way through the script. Chris decided in a very gentlemanly way, and he had warned me that he probably would decide this, not to do it. So I thought – I mean, lovely Chris, but it was a pain."
"And then I had to come up with this idea of the other Doctor, this unknown Doctor from history which I think was a good idea. You’re tweaking every last thing. And all you’re able to see is everything you weren't able to correct."
Moffat went on to say that the version involving Eccleston would have been "largely the same" but "more from the point of view of the Ninth Doctor".
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"The way The Name of the Doctor would originally have ended, it would cut to Christopher Eccleston at the climax of the Time War saying, should I should I operate the Moment? And the Moment saying, 'Well, I'll show you what would happen if you did.'
"So it goes back in time and makes the Matt Smith and the David Tenant Doctor imaginary future Doctors who haven't properly happened yet, but it was otherwise largely the same."
View oEmbed on the source websiteSpeaking at Rose City Comic Con in 2019, he explained: "When [The Day of the Doctor] came along I did speak to them. I didn't feel that what they were asking me to do did justice to the Ninth Doctor. So I said no."
Speaking to Radio Times in 2018, the star said: "My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming and it never recovered."
But speaking during a Q&A as part of Dragon Con, the star ruled out that possibility, saying "my relationship with the BBC over Doctor Who has not healed".
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