adaptations
AWNE
love "Hogfather" and I rather like "The Colour of Magic", not
Rincewind and Lord Vetinari though; Rincewind was younger and though I
love Jeremy Irons he just doesn't do for Vetinari.
If I could cast the crew I'd choose Mark Strong as Vetinari, Jeremy
Sisto as Vimes, Sienna Miller as Angua and there is only one actress
who could play Esmeralda Weatherwax and that is Hellen Mirren.
Reader in Invisible Writings
This is a recurring theme (and none the worst for that, but see the
intro for the link below) and you will find at:-
http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/ultimate-discworld-casting-page.html
there is a 'maintained' list for this subject.
BTW FWIW IMHO there are a couple of rightpondian actresses who would do
an excellent Granny Weatherwax without summoning a leftpondian or
antipodean one! ('though HM is there at pre pre penultimate place!)
Blessings of this season.
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Reader in Invisible Writings.. Something to Ponder upon!
Reader in Invisible Writings
> AWNE wrote:
<SNIP>
Esmeralda Weatherwax and that is Hellen Mirren.
>
<SNAP>
Apologies - total brain fade alert...
>
> BTW FWIW IMHO there are a couple of rightpondian actresses who would do
> an excellent Granny Weatherwax without summoning a leftpondian or
> antipodean one! ('though HM is there at pre pre penultimate place!)
How I mentally confused Hellen Mirren with Merrill Streep is beyond my
normal name blindness. (I'm fairly certain MS is leftpondian)
I also think that Eileen Atkins who played Miss Deborah Jenkyns in
Cranford is a contender!
>
> Blessings of this season.
>
Rocky Frisco
> In article
> <fdb88094-71e8-4500...@34g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>,
Steven Briggs IS Vetinari; Vetinari is his secret identity.
-Rocky Frisco
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Free Lunch
<webm...@liberty-in-our-time.com> wrote in alt.fan.pratchett:
That would imply that Steven is the puppetmaster and Pterry dances for
him.
>-Rocky Frisco
Rocky Frisco
How so? Is not TP the God of Discworld?
jester
<snip>
>Steven Briggs IS Vetinari; Vetinari is his secret identity.
A not very well kept secret?
--
Andy Brown
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect 'Hungry' ..."
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"
Lesley Weston
Helen Mirren is new. It's usually Maggie Smith when this thread happens,
and I've suggested Eileen Atkins before. They would all do just fine.
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Daibhid Ceanaideach
wrote:
> AWNE wrote:
>> Have you ever wondered who could play sir Pratchett's caracters? I
>> love "Hogfather" and I rather like "The Colour of Magic", not
>> Rincewind and Lord Vetinari though; Rincewind was younger and though
>> I love Jeremy Irons he just doesn't do for Vetinari.
>> If I could cast the crew I'd choose Mark Strong as Vetinari, Jeremy
>> Sisto as Vimes, Sienna Miller as Angua and there is only one actress
>> who could play Esmeralda Weatherwax and that is Hellen Mirren.
>
> Helen Mirren is new. It's usually Maggie Smith when this thread
> happens, and I've suggested Eileen Atkins before. They would all do
> just fine.
I think Anette Crosbie would be quite good. Anyone whose seen the
animated Wyrd Sisters (she was the best thing in it) knows she can do the
voice, and IMO she's got the right look as well.
--
Dave
People say nothing rhymes with orange, but it doesn't.
Rocky Frisco
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:28:57 -0600, Rocky Frisco
> <webm...@liberty-in-our-time.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> Steven Briggs IS Vetinari; Vetinari is his secret identity.
>
> A not very well kept secret?
Indeed!
Rocky Frisco
> Rocky Frisco wrote:
>> Free Lunch wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:28:57 -0600, Rocky Frisco
>>> <webm...@liberty-in-our-time.com> wrote in alt.fan.pratchett:
>>>
>>>> Dylan Winslow wrote:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> <fdb88094-71e8-4500...@34g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>> AWNE <annab.sz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you ever wondered who could play sir Pratchett's caracters? I
>>>>>> love "Hogfather" and I rather like "The Colour of Magic", not
>>>>>> Rincewind and Lord Vetinari though; Rincewind was younger and
>>>>>> though I
>>>>>> love Jeremy Irons he just doesn't do for Vetinari.
>>>>>> If I could cast the crew I'd choose Mark Strong as Vetinari, Jeremy
>>>>>> Sisto as Vimes, Sienna Miller as Angua and there is only one actress
>>>>>> who could play Esmeralda Weatherwax and that is Hellen Mirren.
>>>>> I think they should get Charles Dance to play Vetinari.
>>>> Steven Briggs IS Vetinari; Vetinari is his secret identity.
>>>
>>> That would imply that Steven is the puppetmaster and Pterry dances for
>>> him.
>>
>> How so? Is not TP the God of Discworld?
>>
> Which one? Though he's certainly its Creator.
That's the important one, since he created all the others.
And he can uncreate them, if he wants to.
Or should that be "If He wants to."
Lesley Weston
voice, don't we need someone taller? Obviously Nanny should be Miriam
Margoyles, and either Jessica Hynes or Jane Horrocks for Magrat. But
Tiffany is a problem.
CCA
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:28:57 -0600, Rocky Frisco<webmas...@liberty-in-our-time.com> wrote:
> >Steven Briggs IS Vetinari; Vetinari is his secret identity.
> A not very well kept secret?
Especially as he spends most of each Discworld Convention dressed up
as Vetinari :-)
CCA
CCA
> Sienna Miller as Angua
That'd work really well, as long as she could do the general irony
too.
CCA
SteveD
Thus the cunningness of his disguise! Who would suspect?
Nigel Stapley
I can't tell you what I misread that line as.
I think it's time for bed...
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