Casting call - Discworld the Movie

[ace-T]

For all the die hard Discworld fans out there, I have been thinking about which actors who could play the various characters... but I thought it would be more fun thinking of which PH'r would play each one

Starter for ten!

Vetinari - Ted (but of course )
Carrot - JeremyC
Vimes - Nonegreen
Nobby - Mungo
Sergeant Colon - Flasher
Death - Deltaf
Granny Weatherwax - Rude Girl
Nanny Ogg - Big M
Magrat - Lois
Rincewind - Vixpy1
The Archancellor - Balmoral Green
The Librarian - ?
The Bursar - Carzee (him and his dried frog pills eh? )
Twoflower - Marquis Rex
Mrs Cake - ?
CMOT Dibbler - ?
Reg Shoe - ?
Angua - ?
Igor - ?

Over to you

Ace-T

[D-Angle]

I have considered this carefully, and here is my highly researched, if slightly controversial, opinon:

Ook.

[The DJ 27]

Could have Derestrictor as Death. Dibbler is a difficult one. Like the idea of Noners as Sam Vimes

[james p]

As a rare poster I do not want to offend anyone I do not know. Street would be my nomination for the straight forward honesty of Cpl [before later promotions] Carrot. Any suggestions for CMOT, "Dibble" is close in Small Gods and others!

[Pigeon]

Surely Silverback Mike is the natural for the Librarian...

Angua should be WildCat... Igor possibly Love Machine...

Dibbler... Dontlift? He never misses an opportunity to mention the tools he has for sale

[Marquis_Rex]

Interesting...I've been trying to get a bit of reading done recently but must confess not knowing much about Discworld.
I've just spent the last few hours ressearching stuff on it!

Twoflower doesn't seem like a bad sort of character, with a "naive trust in human goodness" (BTW what is an iconograph?)...

[mechsympathy]

(An iconograph is a discworld photo that is painted by an imp in a box.IIRC)

[sadoksevoli]

Do you think Hex has enough storage to run ph.com?

[Mr E]

sadoksevoli said:

Do you think Hex has enough storage to run ph.com?

Probably. But then it would start posting.

[The DJ 27]

Unless we have an 'Out of cheese error"

[Lois-PIE]

never heard of it...but who's Magrat?!!

[The DJ 27]

mungo said:

ace-T said: Nobby - Mungo I'm actually pretty hurt by that!

You didn't expect to be Vimes did you?

[Mrs Fish]

Discworld????? never heard of it...

[Lois-PIE]

mungo said:

Lois-PIE said: never heard of it...but who's Magrat?!! The younger part of a witches coven

ahh thats ok then...so long as she's not a rat! Still...a witch?!

[FourWheelDrift]

Mrs Fish said:

Discworld????? never heard of it...

I think it's like Harry Potter but for nerdier people.

[Mrs Fish]

OK, my interest has been piqued, after a quick search I see Terry Pratchett is the author, but how many books are there in the series exactly?

[Pigeon]

Flippin' loads. Knocking on 30 I think.

FWD: I think "Hitch-hikers meets Lord of the Rings" is a closer match

[wendyg]

mungo said:

Lois-PIE said: never heard of it...but who's Magrat?!! The younger part of a witches coven

Magrat is the downtrodden third witch, contantly browbeaten and humiliated by Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. She is a great believer in the power of herbs, and Gothic jewellery.

Discworld companion said:

In a certain light, and from a carefully chosen angle, Magrat is not unattractive........She is short, thin, decently plain, well-scrubbed and has the watery-eyed expression of hopeless good-will wedged between a body like a maypole, and hair like a haystack after a gale. ..She plays a guitar badly and sings wobbly folk songs with her eyes shut in a way that suggest she really believes them...

If you wish to take this as a compliment that up to you! If any discworld character could be described as a lentillist, it would be Magrat!

Seriously though, she does prove that she has a core of steel, and is actually pretty cool.

[Pigeon]

Indeed she ends up as Queen of Lancre, which the other witches regard as having settled for second best.

[JonRB]

Surely mungo is more suited to Cassanunda?


I met pTerry once, BTW. Bloody nice chap.