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VikingScott wrote:Christopher lee would do very well as Death. He has the voice for it.

Riducually should be played by Brian Blessed.

Would do? You know, that IS his voice in the Discworld movies.

And Brian Blessed as Ridcully is an inspired choice. He would have to tone his usual act down a bit though.

reds8n wrote:Tahmoh Penikett

Did you just put your elbow on the keyboard there? That's not a name, surely?

Is he a Yank? Because that would kind of work, I reckon. It would add to the 'Captain Fantastic' vibe he has going.

Hey, I just found out that Christopher Lee already voiced Death in the old Discworld cartoons.

Anung Un Rama wrote:

VikingScott wrote:Christopher lee would do very well as Death. He has the voice for it.

Riducually should be played by Brian Blessed.

Would do? You know, that IS his voice in the Discworld movies.

And Brian Blessed as Ridcully is an inspired choice. He would have to tone his usual act down a bit though.

I obviously wasn't paying too much attention to the movies then

Properly because I wanted to be able to forget anything that I didn't like about them

Cohen was not bad in Colors of Magic, but once again it's hard to find an actor who fits the part so good like Kidby's drawing.

i don´t know if you fellas know magret rutherford? anyone? she played the miss marple in the old movies...




she got the old aplle look just right...^^

vik

If she looses the evil eyes she'd be a good Nanny Ogg.


IDEA! Maggy Smith as Granny Weatherwax!

so tatally bought!!!
seriously sometimes i think that some characters were directly built by him off some real living celebs...

vik

reds8n wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm i would object against that. the nature of the discworld is mainly non hostile. also you would not do pratchett any tribute by doing so. it wouldn´t be something he would look upon pleased...

vik

From an issue of SFX - a British sci fi/geek magazine

Terry Pratchett wrote:If I'd got into wargaming when I was a little bit younger I would have been lost to writing completely. I would have spent my whole time painting the little miniatures! I loved the figures. Had they come out when I was 13 I would have spent all my days meticulously painting tiny little dots. I seriously would have disappeared and been president of the Warhammer fan club instead of a novelist.

OMGWTF AWESOME!! my respect and admiration for Sir Prattchet has been lifted to new hights, and it was very high before now.

I just cannot see dame Maggie Smith as Weatherwax or even ,Nanny Ogg. Prunella Scales could do it or maybe Victoria Wood

Rickman As Lord Vetinari would be great, maybe Patrick Stewart as well, just for the extra gravitas.

Peter Sellers could've done a great Nobby Nobbs.

I would suggest Miriam Margoyles



She's even got experience

Forgot about her.

reds8n wrote:I would suggest Miriam Margoyles



She's even got experience

So nanny ogg. Shed be great tellling all those single entendre jokes.

And i reckon niles would be good as the king of lancre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niles_Crane.jpg

and this would make a great greebo in human form
Tell me that isnt

Despite the scars and the bad eye, the human Greebo's other eye glitters like the sins of angels, and his lazy smile is the downfall of saints. Female saints, anyway. He appears as a dastardly buccaneer ready to unbuckle any amount of swash; a six-foot, well muscled, grinning bully who radiates a greasy aura of raw sexual energy that can be felt several rooms away. Despite everything they see, women are still attracted to him.

And heres captain carrot/james bond

i think Miriam Margoyles is a bit on the fresh faced side... let her rest for a coupla years and she will fit right in...


at mr bruning: i searched for your female suggestions and could you please show us a resemblance to support your ideas with them? i cant see the character anywher in them, way to friendly and open they appear...

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:i think Miriam Margoyles is a bit on the fresh faced side..

...don't fancy yours much then mate.

pardon?

Lord Harrab wrote:I've read and owned all of prattchets books, and the films. (the man himself makes an apperance in hogfather i think,) and i've loved them all.

He's also appeared in colour of magic, light fantastic and going postal. Can't remember when he appears in colour of magic but in light fantastic he's on of the astromoners in Krull and in going postal he is one of the printers when they are getting the first set of stamps made.

Still reading Jingo. Okay, let me get this straight: Ankh-Morpork is at war with Klatch. All Morporkians seem to know about Klatch is, that they have lots of sand there and that it it "foreign". Then the current ruler Lord Rust (since Vetinary is on a secret mission) decides that all Klatchians living in Ankh-Morpork, even the ones born there, are to be send out of the country, because they could be spies and saboteurs.

That is some sort of political commentary, right?

Just started re-reading Night Watch, which is my favourite Pratchett book. He writes coppers extremely well.
Page 69 in the paperback is one of my favourite passages in any book.
My username on a lot of fora from when I was about 14 was the Luggage, I only changed to Da Boss for Dakka on a whim.
Pratchett is a legend, and not just his discworld stuff. Gotta love Good Omens, Dark Side of the Sun and the Johnny Maxwell triology.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Still reading Jingo. Okay, let me get this straight: Ankh-Morpork is at war with Klatch. All Morporkians seem to know about Klatch is, that they have lots of sand there and that it it "foreign". Then the current ruler Lord Rust (since Vetinary is on a secret mission) decides that all Klatchians living in Ankh-Morpork, even the ones born here, are to be send out of the country, because they could be spies and saboteurs.

That is some sort of political commentary, right?

Yes.


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Da Boss wrote: and the Johnny Maxwell triology.

I forgot he wrote those. I've read them. Good stuff. I've read whichever was a sci-fi one about landing on a 'disc like world' and they are trying to escape. I thought that was ok but not his best.

sure as hell, the story has much historical kicks like the arresting of japenese born american Citizen during WWII as well as modern Allusions with the first golf war...
i think the movie "the siege- der ausnahmezustand" is also a good reference for that book.

pretty direscenario. for vimes who wants peace and calm for his city, he find the avarege man lusting for foreign blood. the scene in the beginning with the captain of the boot (lost the name...) was particulary good writing of pratchett. he captured the mood of metooists and the likes quite well. one of my favorite books by the way due to the still very (and by the day more...) up-to-date problems western world vs arabic world...
pratchett is a very good humanist and delivers moralsistic neckslaps covered in humor...sometimes sad humor at that.
my favorite character in this book is by far 71hour achmed... he is the kind of guy that i think i would like to be in his position...

vik


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at da boss. whenever i read good omes i have at the end a tear in my eye. the end is so romantic. a young guy and the endless summer... it would have made mark twain pround of...

vik

The one with the flat world is Strata. I thought it had lots of really excellent ideas but was a bit let down by the execution. Not that I could do any better mind .
Especially loved the four armed fighting alien dude, he was cool.

i think to really admire that book you had to read some discworld books before... actually strata was my first pratchett book. after that i read darks side of the sun and then i got with color of light into discworld books...

vik

I think my first pratchett book was colour of magic, then I hopped all over the place. I read Carpet People, then Diggers, then Hogfather, and then started plowing through discworld. At some point I also read the Johnny Maxwell series and the sci fi books (I really like Dark Side of the Sun as a sci fi novel, actually. It had some neat ideas in there)

I think Pratchett hit his peak with Night Watch, but a lot of the newer stuff is deadly too. I didn't much like unseen academicals, but I Shall Wear Midnight was really very good, and I haven't been a big fan of Tiffany Aching since Wee Free Men (Which I adore).
Pratchett writes excellent kids books. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is one of the scariest kids books I've ever read, and they nearly always deal with important themes and thought provoking topics without being too heavy handed.
The worst pratchett book in my mind is Monstrous Regiment, the twist was just twisted a BIT too far.

Da Boss wrote:The worst pratchett book in my mind is Monstrous Regiment, the twist was just twisted a BIT too far.

I think that was the point.

I never got around to really read the non-discworld stuff. I read Carpet People years ago, but I don't think I really liked it. Anyone read NATION?

i second that, the regiment is of all the lamest book i´ve read. but nevertheless a good book.
so you´ve done me a great deal as i didn´t knew that there was a fourth novel of tiffany out there... didn´t do my homework good enough it seems...

thanks man for the hint...

do you consider books staring underage characters automaticly to be for kids? i wouldn´t go that far. i think the maxwell books or tiffany and also maurice have so many deep down meanings that they are not really directed to kids...
i think thats just a marketing plot to get more people to read his books...

as for the nac mac feegles, whenever i read a chaptere staring them i tend to read it aloud so to try to get a more scotish accent^^. i saw a vid on youtube onde where a true scotman made some reviews about the feegle books. he was brilliant with that sharp accent.

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:do you consider books staring underage characters automaticly to be for kids? i wouldn´t go that far. i think the maxwell books or tiffany and also maurice have so many deep down meanings that they are not really directed to kids...

Not Nececeralily, but the first Tiffany book feels a lot like a childrens book. The last one, I shall wear Midnight, was really good though.

Nation is pretty good. Not amazing compared to some of the better Diskworld books but has some really moving (and funny) moments.

when was it published, haven´t cought wind of it ...read nation as the latest one...

vik

My first pratchett book was probably one of the Johnny series. Johnny and the dead I think.

First Discworld was the Colour of magic and then the light fantastic.