Casting Terry Pratchett films

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: MMario
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:41 AM

ook!

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 06:03 PM

I'm sure both Clive Owen abd Ray Winstone have a role to play but I'm not sure what. I'll think about it...

:D

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: harpmolly
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 02:01 AM

Cate as the Queen...I love it! Galadriel from Evil Mirror World! :D

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 07:47 PM

I can't agree that all the possible actors should be british, after all Discworld may not even be in our universe. Not to mention the fact that the trolls all seem to speak brooklinese. (except of course Diamond)

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: GUEST,Corlia
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 11:22 AM

What about Simon Pegg from Hot Fuzz for Carrot?

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:45 AM

Carrot has already been cast and had his own series - the Mountie in 'Due South'. Think about it - the knowing everyone in the neighbourhood, unflinching good manners even in the heat of the chase, the doggedness, and underneath it all the feeling that he'll come out the winner.

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: GUEST,Wyrd Sister
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:46 AM

...sorry, mi cookie's gone...

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Greyeyes
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 10:51 AM

Granny Weatherwax is clearly Liz Smith (Vicar of Dibley, Royle Family).

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Greyeyes
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:03 AM

Incidentally it's "The Colour of Magic" they are filming at the moment, David Jason is playing Rincewind. Blicky

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Greyeyes
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:05 AM

Or even Blicky

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:52 AM

Oh, no! David Jason is far too old and unathletic to do Rincewind. A young Michael Crawford might have done him.

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Santa
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 01:50 PM

The one thing Rincewind is good at is running.

And who is going to play Ffahrd and the Grey Mouser - or whatever Pratchett called them in the book?

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: MMario
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 01:54 PM

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:45 AM

Carrot has already been cast and had his own series - the Mountie in 'Due South'. Think about it - the knowing everyone in the neighbourhood, unflinching good manners even in the heat of the chase, the doggedness, and underneath it all the feeling that he'll come out the winner

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I think you have a point there, guest - too bad you didn't sign a name so we could give you credit for it.

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Ernest
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 03:43 PM

I think Pete Postlethwaite (sp.?) deserves a role - how about Fred Colon?

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 04:26 PM

100+ posts and no mention of Anthony Hopkins?
Vetinari possibly, the calm, smooth manner, with an undercurrent of threat!

Rosie Palm: Billie Piper in her 'Belle de Jour' persona.

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 04:47 PM

There is no doubt.   Vetinari is Ian Richardson. It is perfect.

Hopkins could do either of the new Firm

Billie Piper does nothing but annoy me (as does the arrogance of the alleged call-girl demeaning the great film and book Belle de Jour by nicking the name)

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:32 PM

Thanks Mmario (1.54 pm)- if you check the next post you'll see I did 'fess up to the Carrot/Fraser!

To be really honest, it was my son who pointed it out. I think we watched the first series of 'Due South' arouind the same time Carrot was introduced. Since then I've not seen him as anyone else. Even to the 'human' wolf companion, now I think of it...

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: The Walrus
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 08:54 PM

Wyrd Sister,

I like the idea of Paul Gross (Benton Fraser) as Carrot (so, does that mean the dog 'playing' Deifebaker as Angua in Wolf form?)
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Richard Bridge,

I agree, David Jason is too old for Rincewind, the actor needs to be young and thin (he does spend his life running from everything).
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Ernest,

Pete Postletwaite as Colon? Oh No, he's totally the wrong shape. Colon is a middle aged man run to fat (at one point it is said that he fits his breasplate as a jelly fits a mould), perhaps William Simmons (Alf Ventress, the fat desk sergeant in 'Heartbeat' on TV) would be a better choice.
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Nigel,

I think Billie Piper too young for Rosie Palm (except, maybe in Night Watch), I think Siobhan Redmond [(Midwife in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"(1994), Kate Higgins in "Beautiful People" (1999)], might, IMHO, be a more suitable choice.
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Walrus

Subject: RE: Casting Terry Pratchett films
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 03:16 AM

Yes, Walrus, Ventress would be good as Colon. Apt casting is still escaping us on many of these.

Vimes himself is still elusive. Many have not remembered his despairing vulnerabilility when first introduced - a failing alcoholic. Others forget his revolutionary pride as descendant of regicide, and his stubborn reliance on cheap boots. Then there is his tenderness for Lady Ramkin/Lady Vimes. Again there is his "policeman's policeman" persona as he re-grows. And the acuteness as he starts to find his feet in Vetinari's world of somoke and mirrors, and the half-lies of inter-state diplomacy.

In some ways Clint Eastwood has already done most of these, but he is now too old actually to cast for the part. I have never seen Tennant manage the inner despair, nor, quite, the pride.