CSI: Ankh-Morpork
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That's right
these guys
are coming to
HELL YES
Also Discworld thread I guess!
these guys
are coming to
“Sir Terry Pratchett and Rod Brown, managing director of Prime Focus Productions, have announced an agreement for the unprecedented and exclusive worldwide television rights to create brand new storylines for the iconic characters of Pratchett’s phenomenally successful Discworld series.
“Terry’s universal success has seen him create one of the leading fantasy fiction franchises of all time, with 70 million worldwide sales of his 38-book Discworld titles. This will rise to 39 following another book to be published in October 2011. While there have been three successful mini-series adaptations of his Discworld books made for television in the UK, this is the first time Pratchett has granted a production company the international rights to his characters and their world. The agreement will see Prime Focus Productions create a series of new stories exclusively for a television audience.
“The main focus of the series will be the bustling, highly mercantile, largely untrustworthy and vibrant city of Ankh-Morpork. It will follow the day-to-day activities of the men, women, trolls, dwarves, vampires and several other species who daily pound its ancient cobbles. This will of course also include Igor in the forensics department. Terry commonly refers to the City Watch police force series as ‘the jewels in his Discworld Crown’. These richly developed and highly compelling characters will feature in a ‘crime of the week’ episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers will be taken on a ride through Pratchett’s genius imagination, with the author overseeing the creation of the series. In this world, wild and exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls, golems and the classic heroes and villains are an everyday occurrence… many of whom even make outstanding crime fighters!
“‘I believe the globally successful Discworld franchise will readily translate to the small screen in the form of a high-end, mass appeal weekly drama series, giving the audience the anticipation and excitement of brand new Discworld stories every week through the medium of television, rather than books,’ said Rod Brown, managing director of Prime Focus Productions. ‘It’s a huge responsibility to get this right for Terry, his legions of Discworld fans and the new followers that we’ll attract along the way. I believe they’ll be in for a treat with a high calibre writing team already attached, including Monty Python’s Terry Jones and Gavin Scott (Small Soldiers, The Borrowers). We’ve already spoken to a number of international broadcasters who’ve shown early interest and we hope to move forward very quickly to bring this exciting project to fruition.”
“Sir Terry Pratchett said of the agreement: ‘I’m very excited and incredibly happy about this because Rod was co-head of the team that produced the very successful Sky One adaptations. My message of encouragement to him now is: don’t bugger it up!’”
HELL YES
Also Discworld thread I guess!
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Pratchett himself has said he pictured Pete Postlethwaite but I have trouble seeing that
Someone suggested Hugh Laurie and that kinda works but not quite
Also, Pratchett's coat of arms is badass
The motto means "Don't Fear the Reaper"
It's being written by the dude who did those.
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He produced them. It was still Pratchett's stories. Editing an existing story for a miniseries (which I thought they did well) is different to writing something totally new using existing characters. I hope I'm wrong, I just don't see how anyone else is going to write the characters as well as the original author.
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It's usually regarded as his weakest one and he hadn't really nailed the style yet
Try the Death books, or the Night Watch ones
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plus Terry Jones and the dude who wrote Small Soldiers(which is pretty great).
It may not be as good as if Pratchett wrote it but I really doubt it would be bad after they have put out quality Discworld stuff already
read small gods or reaper man
also this
Lords and Ladies might be better if you want a witch intro, though. Each of them seems to get their chance to shine in that one.
Love Night Watch so much.
Guards! Guards! was the first one I read and in retrospect it was a damn fine starting spot.
http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-20.jpg
(linked for huge)
I just finished Light Fantastic, so I'm gonna probably do all of Rincewind. So far Small Gods and Reaper Man are my favorites, which seems to be about normal, so Death is the next ones.
Unlike that Martin guy, Pratchett has already pretty much went, "welp, whatever happens, happens, zero promises." More power to him and his Alzheimer's.
You'd better start training to be a wizard then.
Doesn't Pratchett also have a sword he made buried somewhere in England because they didn't want to let him keep it, citing some weapons thing?
I'd consider getting a tattoo of Om I love it so much
Then some guy goes screaming past her in a horse and carriage and comes an inch from running her down, and Granny just goes >:[ and shoots a bolt of lighting out of her hand and blasts one of the wheels off the carriage.
So awesome.
He made one but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard anything about not being allowed to keep it
she may or may not be the most powerful
it's implied that maybe she is
she is, however, the most intimidating
she essentially bends magic to her will by scaring it
he's still entirely cognizant, and has publicly stated that as soon as he thinks he's losing it, he'll kill himself
You're probably right about her being the most powerful too, Pip. I remember Nanny Ogg explaining to someone that she (Nanny) actually had much more natural talent with magic than Granny, but Granny just made what talent she had work incredibly hard.
But I definitely want another Moist von Lipwig book soon. Going Postal and Making Money were really excellent, and if I Shall Wear Midnight is any indication Pratchett still very much has it. Midnight got really dark in a few places though, which is unusual for him. His books always deal with pretty heavy stuff but it isn't often he's so blatant about it.
Especially for a series that's supposed to be for young adults, which I never entirely got since it isn't really any different content-wise from his supposed adult books.
Read that one quite a while ago and remember it being pretty dark for a young adult book as well.
One time I was helping out at a stable, where some friends of my mum keep their horses, and much though I don't like horses overly much I tried my hand at getting to know one of the larger beasts, at which point it promptly headbutted me.
As a Scotsman, I took this to be a challenge, and so grabbed it by both ears and headbutted it right back.
P.S. I think Pratchett's complaint about the sword is that he could be arrested for carrying it around, even though he's a knight, and how the hell is he meant to slay dragons and save maidens if he's not allowed his sword?
On the one hand. OH HOLY FUCKING SHIT! DISCOWORLD SHOW?! FUCK YES! HELL TO THE YES!
On the other hand.. the TV adaptation of "Going Postal" really really fucked it up. Like.. fucked it up VERY badly.
So..
I dunno..
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I fucking love
Granny Weatherwax
She is actually just as rad in the Tiffany Aching books despite featuring in them less
Same here, it's still my favorite one.
Granny Weatherwax is the second best protagonist
He's not your friend, he's not your enemy, he's just there.
I always pictured him as Clint Eastwood
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I've always pictured Pete Postlethwaite - I didn't know Pratchett did, too. That's fucking rad.