Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-5918438-20170224031850

Here's some actual quotes from the director, Chris McKay:
 * "And because when I played with toys, I'd mash everything together. The first remixing that people do when they're kids is they take Luke Skywalkers and Voldemort and put them in a battle together, that kind of things! [...] To be able to put Agent Smith, Sauron, Voldemort and the Daleks into the movie. All of these bad guys from my childhood. It was a lot of fun." (Source)


 * "I'm a fan! The Tom Baker Doctor Who and Monty Python – that was my Sunday night growing up in Chicago, watching those shows. To me, you want to find characters who are internationally known. You want to find stuff that's not just US centric. The Daleks are there for that reason. We could have called them the Daleks, but Zack had an improv, calling them British robots, which sounded funny! That's where that came from!" (same source as above)

I haven't seen the movie (yet), so I won't give my personal comments until I have.
 * "It's funny, because we make that "British robots" joke about the Daleks, but the BBC gave us the license to be able to use the Daleks, but that’s just a funny joke that Zach (Galifianakis) did in the record and (The Joker) just has that kind of attitude, the American-centric attitude to that joke, which made me laugh, that the Joker would sort of feel that way. You'd be able to namecheck all these other characters but wouldn’t know the Daleks. When I was a kid, I watched Monty Python and Doctor Who on channel 11 in Chicago on Sunday nights. When I was growing up, people wouldn't know the Daleks, but now, there's a lot of kids that grow up on Doctor Who. It may not be the most prevalent thing. I also like doing things that are sort of secret jokes that kids can get, "Oh no, those are the Daleks, of course." They know what they are." (Source)