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JediNemesis
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Date Posted:
1/30/06 3:52am
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RE: Terry Pratchett
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It'll be interesting to see if Discworld translates to the big screen. It might work quite well, but so much of Pratchett's genius is in the text itself rather than the story. The words, the jokes, the footnotes. We shall see.
As for casting, I really hope Pratchett puts a "British cast only" rule down like JK Rowling did. No offence to the mighty US of A, but they cannot be allowed to ruin Discworld by casting American A-listers. 
Alan Rickman as Lord Vetinari (or Death! Nobody else could play Death!)
Dame Judy Dench as Granny Weatherwax
John Cleese as Ridcully (well, maybe  )
David Tennant as Carrot (hmm . . .)
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Andy Serkis as the Librarian
I'll do some thinking 
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Lord-Wiz
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Date Posted:
1/30/06 5:49am
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i always thought of john cleese as being the dean!! that would be great! ridcully always (in my mind) is a fat bloke. someone like richard griffiths, or micheal gambon would be spot on. death would be cgi i suppose, that would be too hard to cast. agree with andy serkis as the librarian too! how about ray winstone as vimes?
oh, and the wee free men should all be voiced by billy connelly 
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princess_of_naboo
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Date Posted:
1/30/06 8:58am
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I love Night Watch and Thud! the most. I've read all 30-something Discworld books and all of his children's books that are in print in the US.
Anyone else read The Unadulterated Cat? Short read, but I found it amusing.
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DarthIshtar
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2/3/06 10:25pm
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My parents are in london at the moment and I told them that to appease me for not taking me along, they had to go to my favorite bookshop on Charing Cross Road, where they have a WALL of Terry Pratchett books and buy me Thud!
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Eyrezer
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2/9/06 10:49pm
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I love the Discworld novels. I just went on a bit of a bing and read three of his novels in the last week. Monstrous Regiment is great. The whole women dressing up as men, dressing up as women and the guards thinking they are men. Priceless.
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MarcusP2
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2/13/06 5:16am
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Yay. Hogfather to become a movie! Two movies actually.
New favourite Christmas movie.
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Lord-Wiz
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wow!!
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MarcusP2
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2/13/06 7:03am
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I'm really interested to see who they cast in some of the parts, particularly Mr Teatime and Susan.
Death: Live action or CGI?
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Lord-Wiz
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2/13/06 8:19am
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have to be cgi. how would anyone look like this:
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MarcusP2
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2/14/06 5:16am
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Like this:
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Lord-Wiz
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2/17/06 9:32am
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MarcusP2 posted:
Like this:
er, that looks crap. they have to do it with cgi.
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MarcusP2
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2/18/06 7:20am
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Oh, I'm sure they will. I thought that looked quite good for a skeleton made of foam
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JediNemesis
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2/19/06 3:54am
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Movie: if they get this right I shall love them forever. If they get it wrong I have no idea what the massed TP fans of this Earth shall wreak upon them . . .
Death has to be CGI. Hey, can we get Andy Serkis to do Death, as well?
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JediNemesis
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Date Posted:
2/28/06 10:01am
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Hey, guys!
The BBC have dramatised Small Gods! They're airing part 1 tonight (28/2)on Radio 4 at 11pm, for any other Britons here.
Other nations, you should be able to find it on the BBC's Listen Again page for about a week after it's broadcast.
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Lord-Wiz
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Date Posted:
4/5/06 9:55am
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whoa!! this thread dropped like a stone
i just finished reading "thief of time". anybody else who has read this keep thinking of the matrix while reading it? the way the main characters (lu tze and lobsang) can slice time had me in mind of bullet time. and i think that lobsang definately had "neo" influences with lu tze being a kind of morpheus character. the way that lobsang ends up being better than his master was definately influenced by the matrix imho. anyone else think the same?
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