Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

Raretown’s an occasional BNAT visitor and a chat room old-schooler, and evidently, he’s a Terry Pratchett fan as well.

I know Pratchett’s fans have wanted to see his work on the bigscreen for a while. I recently had a conversation with a producer who suggested that the delays on bringing GOOD OMENS to the screen were largely due (at this point) to Pratchett’s dislike of the scripts being written. Dunno if that’s true or not, but I’d guess he would have far more control over a UK TV version of his work, and that’s a good thing. So check this out:

Hey there folks, Raretown here with a snippet that might not have hit the airwaves yet: UK press reported yesterday that David Jason is to play failed wizard Rincewind in the second discworld adaptation to be filmed by SKY, which is none other than the original book of the series, The Colour Of Magic.

What makes this shit da bomb is that following the sucess of The Hogfather which SKY gave us last xmas they have decided to graciously double the budget for this one, making it somewhere in the region of 12million quid, or 24million of your american dollars. Personally I had issues with Hogfather as I was too distracted by michelle dockery's heaving bodice and spent much of the film wanting to do filthy things with her in a bathtub, but it was a good effort anyway at a serious big screen pratchett adapt.

Also. apparently, a major US star has been signed to play Rincewind's infuriatingly optimistic travelling companion Twoflower, though exactly who has not been revealed yet. I hope it's someone like steve carrell. Anyway, if you havent read the book, git yo ass up in dere as its a fantastic adventure story and an appropriately hilarious introduction to most of the discworld characters who populate the rest of the books. Let's hope this marks the beginning of a slew of epic adapts of the rest of them.

And about FUCKING time too.

Raretown