So Terry Pratchett was this guy who wrote some books. They were quite popular. Now they're making some of them into a TV show. They've done it before, with varying levels of success. Results have ranged from hmmm not bad to oh Christ that's awful. Most of the stories he wrote take place here.
The Watch has had a long gestation, but is now being made by BBC America, an entity solely designed to bring socialism to the benighted shores of the New World. It will star these guys.
Pretty much any human would be too pretty to be Nobby. They need someone who you can look at for some time, then conclude that in all probability they are most likely to be human, at least compared to any other known species.
Expanding the fantasy casting, would there be anyone better for Ridcully than Brian Blessed? Maybe Nick Offerman if you want someone younger.
(and Daniel Radcliffe for Ponder Stibbons would work quite well)
And Robert Picardo as Drumknott.
Nobby would need to be a Spitting Image puppet, whilst all the other characters were real actors.
Event the official papers Nobby carries only state the he is probably human.
Any actor or puppet needs to be able to have a reasonable person look at Nobby and ask, is that a human?
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Oh! How about Sean Bean as Reg Shoe?
He's already dead, can't kill him again.
I'd actually love this, as they could go through all his most famous deaths, and then Reg can just get up afterwards and complain about all these arrows in his armour. Cut his head off? Damn it, does anyone have a needle and thread?
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Just a note, if you haven't read Nation do yourself a favor and run, don't walk, to grab it
It's not my favorite Pratchett novel, but I think it's far and away his best work
Just a note, if you haven't read Nation do yourself a favor and run, don't walk, to grab it
It's not my favorite Pratchett novel, but I think it's far and away his best work
Yeah, if someone said they would only ever read one Pratchett book, I would give them Nation. It is a brilliant piece of fiction.
But if they said they'd read all of Pratchett's work, I'd still suggest they start with it.
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Hogfather is the only Sky adaptation that was any good
The others are clunky, miscast, miss the point of the books and are just generally depressing to watch
The best adaptation is the Soul Music animated miniseries, because they do some fun stuff with the Band and it is a plot that works well translated to TV
Gary Oldman as the entire watch, Big Momma's House-style. Detritus and Cheeri included.
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Reminder that Christopher Lee as Death was already a thing in 90s animated adaptations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters
He also voiced Death in the games and the recent BBC adaptions of Hogfather.
Sky, not BBC. And the voice of Death in Hogfather was Ian Richardson. Lee did it for the (terrible) Colour of Magic mini-series, also by Sky.
I disagree that the Colour of Magic was terrible. I thought it was a pretty good adaptation of both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
YMMV, but I've tried to watch it several times and always turn it off quickly because of how clunky and hamfisted the miniseries seemed.
That's being true to the source material, which because it was early Pratchett was clunky and hamfisted at times.
Defense of bad material being from a bad original book isn't perhaps the rousing hopeful chorus about this future project you might think it is.
I really like the books, but thought the Sky adaptation was terrible. The budget wasn't up to it and the casting was all wrong, David Jason is a great comic actor but he had no business being Rincewind - don't get me started on Sean Astin. I also have an over-abiding memory of the timing being off on everything - just hamfisted editing all around ruining action and comedy alike.
The Hogfather was okay to good, but suffered from similar budget and editing problems - the stuff in TF's castle just never clicked. The only thing I remember from Going Postal is Claire Foy, Poirot and an unconvincing Mr Gryle.
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Charles Dance as Vetinari was effortlessly good and genius casting...except then they couldn't convince him to wear a wig. (I can see not dying his hair because he was still on Game of Thrones at that point IIRC.)
I hope they find some guest spots for the surviving Pythons
I'd love to see Palin on there as CMOT Dibbler
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I haven’t really pictured most characters as famous actors, except that Vetinari looks like Stanley Tucci in my head. And Sgt Colon looks like Stephen Fry.
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Honestly, I think at this point I'd prefer it if all the actors were minor or new faces
Which is probably going to happen
Not that this kind of discussion isn't an interesting way to see how other people view the characters, but after a certain point it gets a bit "Idris Elba for the next Doctor Who!"
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Nobby would need to be a Spitting Image puppet, whilst all the other characters were real actors.
Any actor or puppet needs to be able to have a reasonable person look at Nobby and ask, is that a human?
Is Daniel Radcliffe to old for Ponder Stibbons?
And CCH Pounder as Mrs Gogol.
He's already dead, can't kill him again.
I'd actually love this, as they could go through all his most famous deaths, and then Reg can just get up afterwards and complain about all these arrows in his armour. Cut his head off? Damn it, does anyone have a needle and thread?
It's not my favorite Pratchett novel, but I think it's far and away his best work
He was always Ventinari in my head
Yeah, if someone said they would only ever read one Pratchett book, I would give them Nation. It is a brilliant piece of fiction.
But if they said they'd read all of Pratchett's work, I'd still suggest they start with it.
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He also voiced Death in the games and the recent BBC adaptions of Hogfather.
Sky, not BBC. And the voice of Death in Hogfather was Ian Richardson. Lee did it for the (terrible) Colour of Magic mini-series, also by Sky.
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he's played super short characters before :snap:
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I disagree that the Colour of Magic was terrible. I thought it was a pretty good adaptation of both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
YMMV, but I've tried to watch it several times and always turn it off quickly because of how clunky and hamfisted the miniseries seemed.
The others are clunky, miscast, miss the point of the books and are just generally depressing to watch
The best adaptation is the Soul Music animated miniseries, because they do some fun stuff with the Band and it is a plot that works well translated to TV
That's being true to the source material, which because it was early Pratchett was clunky and hamfisted at times.
Gary Oldman as the entire watch, Big Momma's House-style. Detritus and Cheeri included.
Defense of bad material being from a bad original book isn't perhaps the rousing hopeful chorus about this future project you might think it is.
I really like the books, but thought the Sky adaptation was terrible. The budget wasn't up to it and the casting was all wrong, David Jason is a great comic actor but he had no business being Rincewind - don't get me started on Sean Astin. I also have an over-abiding memory of the timing being off on everything - just hamfisted editing all around ruining action and comedy alike.
The Hogfather was okay to good, but suffered from similar budget and editing problems - the stuff in TF's castle just never clicked. The only thing I remember from Going Postal is Claire Foy, Poirot and an unconvincing Mr Gryle.
I hope they find some guest spots for the surviving Pythons
I'd love to see Palin on there as CMOT Dibbler
It might just be a good adaptation of bad material.
(I really don't like Colour Magic or Light Fantastic)
Cleese would presumably kill in any of the various superannuated nobleman / guild leader / whatever roles.
E: Actually, he's probably too old for it but I think he'd manage to capture Mustrum Ridcully's essence fairly well given the chance.
Except he's doing a Cockney-accented version of his Ulysses Klau voice. Except more nasal, but just as deep.
Who can Daniel Craig play?
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Which is probably going to happen
Not that this kind of discussion isn't an interesting way to see how other people view the characters, but after a certain point it gets a bit "Idris Elba for the next Doctor Who!"
Having said that: Idris Elba for Chrysoprase
Peter Butterworth as Fred is another one.