The greatest fantasy world wasn't made by J K Rowling or George R R Martin, or even Tolkein. It was made by Terry Pratchett. It's only the fact that no one has ever made a decent screen adaption of Discworld that more people don't think so.
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The watch isn’t Pratchett. It’s someone else writing unrelated nonsense using the same names for different characters in a different story set in a different world.
I will never understand why someone decided to take one of the best characters and storylines in Discworld, keep the names, but change everything else. It was bizarre, and so disrespectful.
LIke Amazon did with Tom Clancy's Without Remorse; take the title, a couple of names, and throw away one the best novels he wrote, thereby completely ruining it.
Pratchett is derivative. Which is fine, he wrote satire, and he couldn’t satirize anything that wasn’t already there. But the Discworld isn’t even his creation; it’s entirely cribbed from existing mythology.
The Discworld appeal lies in Pratchett's style and relies heavily on what people are thinking and the humorous critique of ideas/societal norms. You can't translate that into cinema unless you have a cutaway narrator like they did with Hitchhikers Guide. I don't think it would work.
Given the sheer quantity and quality of source material in the Discworld series it’s crazy that one of the big studios hasn’t taken it on and done it properly. The few Sky ones were horrific. But they’ll keep flogging Marvel and Starwars spin off till the end of time…
Pratchett is a great writer, puncturing social mores and of
Course the creator of Sam vimes, a fantastic character and vehicle for much of his best work. Not a patch though on Steven Erikson and Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Pro tip for Pratchett is not to start with his first two books which are more parodies of Robert E Howard than when he later starts using a fantasy setting to explore different genres and ideas. Give Guards! Guards! a shot. A murder mystery police procedural with dragons.
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Course the creator of Sam vimes, a fantastic character and vehicle for much of his best work. Not a patch though on Steven Erikson and Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Except The Amazing Maurice. That one can fuck right off.