The Official Terry Pratchett Thread

[HandsOn]

K, point taken.  And Tony Robinson voiced the first computer game and was perfect.

And how about Mark Addy (Full Monty, Shaun of the Dead) as Colon.  Possibly a bit young, maybe Colon from Night Watch.

Say, can someone here quickly find about 10 mill? Looks like the perfect production team for "Nightwatch - The Movie" is already assembled here.. 

[callagrafx]

I always thought of Timothy Spall when I think of Fred...And despite his menace, the only person with the physique to pull off Carrot would be Vinnie Jones (with his hair dyed, that is).

Say, can someone here quickly find about 10 mill? Looks like the perfect production team for "Nightwatch - The Movie" is already assembled here.. 

Let me just check my spare change pot 

[Diggis]

I always thought of Timothy Spall when I think of Fred...And despite his menace, the only person with the physique to pull off Carrot would be Vinnie Jones (with his hair dyed, that is).

I find Timothy Spall a little too creepy and sly.  Not quite Gormless enough.  And I was trying to think of someone who could pull off Carrot.  Vinnie does have the imposing figure, but possibly not the innocence. 

[Shadow Assassin]

I wonder who would be good to play Carcer in Night Watch?

[callagrafx]

I wonder who would be good to play Carcer in Night Watch?

That's easy....Ray Winstone 

Gary Oldman  is definitely Capt Swing

Had a rethink on Colon...either Richard Griffiths (Mr Dursley from HP) or Robbie Coltrane (who would pull it off to perfection I reckon).

[Diggis]

Robbie coltrane gets my vote for old Colon.

And I'll give you Ray Winstone. 

[HandsOn]

Agreeing with Diggis here, I must. And Richard Griffiths' grouchy demeanor would probably be better suited to play Albert, Death's undying man-servant..

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.  - The last Continent

[callagrafx]

One of the best quotes....ever....

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

[Shadow Assassin]

And Richard Griffiths' grouchy demeanor would probably be better suited to play Albert, Death's undying man-servant..

And he does look kind of like what I imagined Albert to be.

On the bright side, at least it'd be very cheap to do Death's Domain.

[Diggis]

I saw TP on the news this morning talking about Alzheimer's and thought the man himself you play a great Bursar.

[HandsOn]

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. - Hogfather

[catty]

I'm should be thinking of "who" should play "who" in the books, but I can't get past David Jason as Rincewind, I mean Rincewind what was he thinking, I could just about see him as the tourist Twoflower, but Rincewind ... 

I really enjoyed Hogfather as they kept close to the book and the casting was inspired, however The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic didn't work for me because David Jason was just not Rincewind. Rincewind has always been described (and illustrated) as young, skinny and bedraggled ....

notices the Luggage in the corner and wanders over to have a look at it



SNAP

[Shadow Assassin]

Rincewind in that movie looks too old!

I was expecting him to be maybe, about mid-20s, like an university student or something. Not an old guy.

[HandsOn]

Rincewind in that movie looks too old!

I was expecting him to be maybe, about mid-20s, like an university student or something. Not an old guy.

Nah, Rincewind is an old survivor; in the the first book at one point he even mentiones that he's been at the university for a long long time - he just never finished his studies. But he'll be gangly, narrow-faced, with a straggly, thinned out beard, and hand-me-down robes. Jason was simply too rotound..

[Diggis]

Nah, Rincewind is an old survivor; in the the first book at one point he even mentiones that he's been at the university for a long long time - he just never finished his studies. But he'll be gangly, narrow-faced, with a straggly, thinned out beard, and hand-me-down robes. Jason was simply too rotound..

And not really cynical enough.

[catty]

In memory "GNU Terry Pratchett"

Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called "the clacks". When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called "GNU John Dearheart" to echo his name up and down the lines. "G" means that the message must be passed on, "N" means "not logged", and "U" means the message should be turned around at the end of a line.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code

For those people that want to know what sites have implemented this code on their site you can downloaded the firefox or chrome addon to see it, the code has been added over at

www.city-builders.info