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Viktor von Domm wrote:

I still want Alan Rickman as Vetinari, he was born to rule.

fixed that for you....

I still want Alan Rickman as Vetinari, he was born to rune.

Fixed that for you.

Mark Addy as Colon(or John Goodman?)

Tennant as Nobbs?

ins´t Tennant a too big fellaw for that near halfling nobbs? but his face is really fitting!!!

and definatly mark andy as colon, he has the right features too, john goodman has a certain spark in his eyes that would ruin that distilled simplemindedness that colon needs^^


to rune? that aplies solely to the dean???^^

Speaking of Tennant, I really wish him and/or Ecclestone get a role in the series. I just can't think of a character that would fit either.

This might be better in the News & Rumors forum, but I think it is good here as well. Anyways did you all know that Games Workshop just released the first mini from their new discworld line awhile back? Check it out the Librarian from Discworld:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1140066a

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/discworld-miniatures-the-librarian-p-235.html

well a mixture of both would do the charcter of the liberian justice... atm both minis seperate wouldn´t fit the description for me at all...

Haha. Yes I saw that mini a long time ago...always had in mind to get them as Jokareo. Now there is a Jokaero I could have a few minis!

I am pretty sure Tennant played Nobby Nobbs in the Hogfather.

Eccelstone...I wonder if he could play Sam Vimes? He is quite a serious guy.

Who would play carrot?

for a carrot i would say a young arnie...
for vimesy i still say a clint eastwood...after all much of the charcter was built from Harry Callahan....from dirty harry movies ...

i am also not sure if tennant didn´t play with false teeth the nobby...
tho many would want to see more tely stuff from pratchett i am a bit hesitant about that... i saw going postal recently and i think the directors got the look of the films not quite right...the civillians look mostly like early victorian bums and all is pretty smelly and sticky looking (which i am fine with) but then you get the watch, and they still look like high fantasy watchmen... which is for me an incionsitency...either go for the complete fanatsy look and let the victorian look slip or only do the modern look... to see a feature film of my favorite characters done wrong would ruin my own nerdy needs...

If Tennant did have a part in hogfather it's not listed on IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/

It was a guy named Nicholas Tennant.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855058/

well wikipedia still lists a Nicholas Tennant as the actor of noby nobbs...but i guess that is a wiki related thing... the picture search via google renewed my picture of nobby in hogfather and he doesnt look like the first metioned actor...but still a good face for that role, tho serious makeup needed still^^

Clint would have been a excellent vimes...

I will watch hogfather tonight and take a look!

for my taste hogfather was a bit loooong... not that i want to complain that so many scenes from the book got transfered to the screen, it is just that i wished for a bit more spice in the movie...

whenerver i see clint saying do you feel lucky...

may contain apropriate violence...

Well, I'll be damned. There's actually another Vimes novel coming.



October 13th

Awesome...
October is my looking forward to month now.

Squeeling with joy. I do love the Vimes novels. October is going to be a good month.

Sean Bean as Vimes, full stop.

'One does not simply walk into Morpork!'








Wait, did I use that joke already?

Albatross wrote:Sean Bean as Vimes, full stop.

'One does not simply walk into Morpork!'





Wait, did I use that joke already?

Yeah you did mate.

i feared what with his illness that there would never be a new vimesey book...praise the lords^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:i feared what with his illness that there would never be a new vimesey book...praise the lords^^

He's been working on it for some time.

Hoping that I can get into this more than 'Academicals as I love watch/Vimes tales.

academicals wasn´t that bad...a bit less of all but still something that might get justified revisted...i think the whole ork issue will be revisited...

Hmmm. Vimes is my favourite Pratchett character (he's everyone's, really, isn't he?) but I think he peaked at night watch. I didn't much like Thudd though it had good bits.

If snuff is about him dying though, well, that could be really something.

Da Boss wrote:Hmmm. Vimes is my favourite Pratchett character (he's everyone's, really, isn't he?) but I think he peaked at night watch. I didn't much like Thudd though it had good bits.

If snuff is about him dying though, well, that could be really something.

Night Watch was good but i really liked Thud...

for me thud was a big thing too... when it came out i was a very fresh father of my first born son and i could very much relate to many bitz of the storyline...so all in all vimes is a great identification fugure for me... i sincerely hope no one is killing of vimesey...*crosses fingers*

Da Boss wrote:Hmmm. Vimes is my favourite Pratchett character (he's everyone's, really, isn't he?)

Well, he's not mine Of the big four (Death, Rincewind, Vimes and Granny Weatherwax), Death always had the best lines (Reaper Man is one of my favourites). As for lesser characters, I liked Gaspode in Moving Pictures and for something which doesn't even speak, the Luggage has an amazing presence.

Albatross wrote:Sean Bean as Vimes, full stop.

'One does not simply walk into The Shades!'








Wait, did I use that joke already?

Fixed

Gaspode. Ptepic. Death. ?


The Bursar? The Dean/Arch Chancellor of Brazeneck!

Awesome news about the new book. Always get excited when a new one comes out. I didn't read my first book till 11...and that was the Hobbitt...but I didn't finish it cos I picked up the Colour of Magic half way through.

Anyone see the doc he did the other day? I can';t watch the beeb where I am.

thats so brutal, stoping to read the hobbit for a pratchett book...i guess i would love to know what the man himself would think about that...(choose either TP or JRRT^^)

Haha. I don't regret it!

(I've since read the hobbit).



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But Pratchett is still the best ever.

he sure is much better entertaintment and then the subtext in his books is much better than with tolkien anyway!^^

I recetly re-read Making Money. There's a lot of talk in the book about a planned underground transportation system called "the undertaking". I was expecting the next Morpork-focused book to be about it.