Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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BBC production, last year. Two-part miniseries. Low budget. Very pretty Susan.
Also, they're doing The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic as a single movie to be released Easter 2008. I will probably watch it, even though Hogfather wasn't as great as I wanted it to be. It's something, though.
According to IMDb there's also a Soul Music movie, a Wyrd Sisters movie (both animated, looks like).
I thought I heard, or read on the Internet (Our motto: "Only the truth! Ish!") that there was talk of a movie based on either Guards! Guards! or Men at Arms, I'm not sure which.
Which begs the question: Who would you cast as Sam Vimes?
BBC production, last year.
I think it was Sky. Which, call me a snob, but it makes me a bit wary.
Oh, sorry. You're probably right.
What makes you wary about Sky? I thought the entire production was tonally inconsistent and off, like they were both trying to be too serious and didn't know how to make the humor in the book actually funny. But Susan was pretty, and there was some good stuff scattered throughout.
you didn't happen to be at the new Arclight did you?
No, just a small southern mall theater.
Death cracked me up...even Aimee, who has never read Discworld (despite my constant exhortations of "Seriously, I think you'll like it!") stopped and laughed at something Death did. I think it was the scene with the wagon driver. He was just so...nice and solicitous.
I think my main problem with it is...not what they cut but something about how they cut it made it seem kind of jumpy. Like, even if you'd never read the book you could tell something probably went there, but it's not there and now this scene doesn't make as much sense as it should.
Corwood, I've seen that movie and it is made of hilarity.
I love it. I remember being way more freaked out by the "Indian" guy's arms when I was a kid than any of the horrific violence.
What makes you wary about Sky?
Mostly that they have no tradition of making original tv at all. They do reality shows sometimes, and they had a trashy soap about a football team once, but they mostly show American imports. It's quite a leap from that to literary adaptation.
they had a trashy soap about a football team once
Footballers Wives ?