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Rumors of Pratchett Film

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the silver-screenings dept.

kongjie writes "The BBC reports on the rumored possibility of Terry Pratchett's novel Wee Free Men being made into a Hollywood film, with Raimi attached to it. This would be the first, although in the past his stuff has made the television screen."

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  1. All I can say is... by DreadfulGrape · · Score: 4, Funny

    CRIVENS!!!

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  2. Re:Disc World by grahamlee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Making the Discworld into a film would certainly put LotR to shame just in terms of length. Actually, it would be a much better screenplay too. But let's say they concentrate on one particular aspect; I wonder what it would be? Suppose the screenplay is novel[1], I'd expect it to be based on Ankh-Morpork, but probably with both the City Watch and UU involved somehow. Otherwise it would need to be the whole plot of one of the existing books, but one which is self-contained and also doesn't have too much in the way of explanatory passages. Pyramids would probably be right out, Last Continent would be doable but probably wouldn't make a good film. So I think in these cases they'd probably go right back to the start and make The Colour of Magic, or perhaps Wyrd Sisters.

    Out of interest, which game are you referring to? I've played the first two computer games but missed out on Discworld Noir. My overriding memory of playing Discworld computer games is "that doesn't work".

    [1]Puns, like Gods, are brought into existence purely by narrative imperative.[2]
    [2]As are explanatory footnotes.

  3. Re:PTerry's market clout ... by ian_mackereth · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was amused when PTerry was talking about the smug way in which the Hollywood ponytails dangled what they considered a huge payment in front of him, assuming that the starving writer would faint dead away at seeing that many zeroes in front of the decimal point.

    He shrugged and told him how much more he'd earned from royalties that month and they first goggled and then shut up!

  4. Pratchett on Hollywood.. by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny

    "A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys. Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years." - Terry Pratchett. So either things have changed, or the movie will end up being a sequel to Charlie and Chocolate Factory or something.. 'Hey, Wee Free Men? Those are kind of like Ooompah Loompahs, right?'

  5. Re:I don't get Pratchett by PonyHome · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really want to get into him. Anyone, anything to be an (in)adequate replacement for Douglas Adams' sensibilities. God I miss that guy.

    I've read Kingdom For Sale

    IF you want to get into Terry Pratchett, why are you reading books by Terry BROOKS?

  6. Re:And all *I* can say is... by atrocious+cowpat · · Score: 5, Funny


    "So, what rating are they going to put on the movie, PG-13?"

    Er... that would be "Pray to the Gods (all 13 of 'em)", right?

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  7. Re:Hope this follows for more ... by Winlin · · Score: 3, Funny

    But would you want to be the casting director who had to audition the Nobbs hopefuls???