The Watch better be on BBCA...
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I am excited.
Awesome!
I thought the "Hogfather" movie turned out well. As long as they can get that Pratchett humor down, I'm totally onboard for this.
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What about Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic and Going Postal?
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Originally Posted by Cowman
I thought the "Hogfather" movie turned out well.
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Haven't gotten around to seeing those yet.
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Originally Posted by Zikar
What about Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic and Going Postal?
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I was hoping we'd get a Watch movie next, because we've had the wizards and DEATH and the city services.
But...
...a whole series!! O.O
GLEE!!
Let the casting speculation commence!
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Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
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Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
a TV version of Good Omens, with Terry Jones involved!
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Trevor Eve as Vimes. He can do the just-under-the-surface rage soo well..
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Originally Posted by Casual_Player
Let the casting speculation commence! |
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The chubby guy that plays opposite Simon Pegg for Fred Colon!
Come to think of it, Hugh Laurie might make a good Sam Vimes.
Coming up blank on who could play Carrot, Angua, and Nobby though. Vetinari would have to be included as well. Can't have a Watch story without the Patrician.
Not heard of Trevor Eve before, but he looks like he could pull off Vimes.
Laurie bloody could. He's got the scathing, dark sarcasm that Vimes deploys so well.
Jeremy Irons and Charles Dance both played Vatinari/The Patrician (in Irons' case) spectacularly well, although Dance would need to dye his hair this time around.
Aparently Terry has him down as 'should be played by Alan Rickman', though? (Wikipedia) Hmm.
Despite being made overly pale and nowhere near as warm (if still a tad spiky) a character as she is in the books, Ingrid Berdal played Angua well in Going Postal.
(Such a shame I hated what they did with it. It was truly an adaption, very far removed from the quality of the book.)
Pemberton, while a good actor, didn't cut it as Drumbknott IMO. Too round, not skinny and wiry enough. Drumbknott is definitely a character that can glide when they move.
Not sure who the hell they'd get there.
((Anyone who has not seen Paul Kidby's Pratchett Portfolio should go and do so. Aside from Agnes Nitt, he portrays pretty much all the characters near spot on perfectly.))
Christ...why can't I get a job like that? Making the books for TV/Film? I wish I could have taken a degree in Pratchett, heh heh...
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More thoughts;
Nicholas Tennant wasn't any good as Nobby in Hogfather.
Again, Kidby does the best (and to my mind accurate) rendition;
Fred Colon would be a hard one. Nick Frost, as someone mentioned could pass for the body shape and looks....not so sure about the voice. I always think Colon would have a middle-deep voice, not Frost's quite high one...Hmn.
Still wish they'd stick to Kidby's renditions of the Trolls, too;
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If you can, look out for a BBC series called 'Waking The Dead'. It's on its last season here (thanks to budget cuts) He's the lead in that and its bloody good. He always seems like he's barely reigning in his rage a lot of the time, which is pretty much Sam Vimes all over.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Not heard of Trevor Eve before, but he looks like he could pull off Vimes.
Laurie bloody could. He's got the scathing, dark sarcasm that Vimes deploys so well. |
Yes, Laurie could as well, I agree. I just don't think he's grizzled enough.
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Have you seen any of the ads for a series called House? Laurie's in it as the title character. He's pretty grizzled looking in it. He's no longer the foppish Prince George (though he'll always be that character to me, just like Harrison Ford is Han Solo, Arnold is the Terminator, Stallone is Rambo, Rowan Atkinson is Black Adder, etc).|
Originally Posted by Red_Giant
If you can, look out for a BBC series called 'Waking The Dead'. It's on its last season here (thanks to budget cuts) He's the lead in that and its bloody good. He always seems like he's barely reigning in his rage a lot of the time, which is pretty much Sam Vimes all over.
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Hugh Laurie. That's pretty durn grizzled. Though not as grizzled as that one old SNL sketch of who is more grizzled.
Also...grizzled.
I just thought of who should play Carrot...
Awesome from Chuck. He's got the stature, the physique, the charisma, etc. Would probably be a, dare I say it, awesome choice for the character.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Have you seen any of the ads for a series called House? Laurie's in it as the title character. He's pretty grizzled looking in it. He's no longer the foppish Prince George (though he'll always be that character to me
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And if he DID play Vimes, he could probably even keep his English accent.
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To me he'll always be Bertie Wooster.
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I have so wanted a film adaptation of any of the Watch books. A series will just be awesome. Now to hope that my cable will show it...
No one pays attention to me, cause I listen to the voices in my head.
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Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Pratchett fans rejoice, double news ahoy:
First off, we have 'The Watch', a TV series featuring new stories set in Ankh-Morpork and thats not all, a TV version of Good Omens, with Terry Jones involved! Source: http://www.pjsmprints.com/news/index.html |
Also, please please please please please cast Hugh Laurie as Crowley and Stephen Frye as Aziraphale. *crosses fingers*
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by Defenestrator
please please please please please cast Stephen Frye as Aziraphale.
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THIS. The ultimate this. Look-it-up-in-the-dictionary-definition-of THIS.
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Originally Posted by Defenestrator
Also, please please please please please cast Hugh Laurie as Crowley and Stephen Frye as Aziraphale. *crosses fingers*
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Have you seen any of the ads for a series called House? Laurie's in it as the title character. He's pretty grizzled looking in it. He's no longer the foppish Prince George (though he'll always be that character to me, just like Harrison Ford is Han Solo, Arnold is the Terminator, Stallone is Rambo, Rowan Atkinson is Black Adder, etc).
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Pratchett fans rejoice, double news ahoy:
First off, we have 'The Watch', a TV series featuring new stories set in Ankh-Morpork
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