Can it be true? A Discworld movie!

[Needle]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=34071

Looks like Sam Raimi is going to direct a Wee Free Men movie.

Ok, it's "only" one of the kiddie books, but still, it's Discworld! Yay!

[Pansa]

i wonder how theyll make the transition to the painting its related to..

the one that funny enough another book released at the same time made fun on ( the witches of chiswick by robert rankin)

the picture in question is named "the feary fellers masterstroke" by richard dadd...

[Needle]

I think Wee Free Men drew inspiration from far more than one source.

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Completely unrelated: I just googled for this Dadd guy. What a nice fella.

It was on August 28th, 1843, at a chalk pit called Paddock Hole, a forested area just outside of Cobham, that his life changed forever. Rather than disburden his mind, Richard Dadd chose to brutally murder and dismember his father with a knife and a razor.

Dadd immediately fled to France, (...) where he promptly attempted to slash the throat of a fellow tourist. The French authorities arrested him, and Dadd volunteered his real name, and confessed to the murder of his father. Dadd was imprisoned, and later, when transferred to an asylum, the authorities found secreted on his body a list of people "who must die", with his dear old father being number one on it.

And that guy drew pictures of fairies?!

[Remy]

Actually there already is something like a Discworld movie: The BBC did animated versions of both Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, each of them as a seven episode miniseries. Both of them should be out on DVD in the US.

[GodBlitZor]

Freakin weird book to adapt. Just the right movie for Raimi. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Eddy Willson]

This sounds interesting http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Pansa]

Needle said:
I think Wee Free Men drew inspiration from far more than one source.

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Completely unrelated: I just googled for this Dadd guy. What a nice fella.

It was on August 28th, 1843, at a chalk pit called Paddock Hole, a forested area just outside of Cobham, that his life changed forever. Rather than disburden his mind, Richard Dadd chose to brutally murder and dismember his father with a knife and a razor.

Dadd immediately fled to France, (...) where he promptly attempted to slash the throat of a fellow tourist. The French authorities arrested him, and Dadd volunteered his real name, and confessed to the murder of his father. Dadd was imprisoned, and later, when transferred to an asylum, the authorities found secreted on his body a list of people "who must die", with his dear old father being number one on it.

And that guy drew pictures of fairies?!



read the annotation at the end of "wee free men"
the picture is mentioned there ..

and picture google the name..
its insane, a jpg 3 screens big doesnt capture all the detail, and than google the size of the original oilpainting..

no wonder he went insane..

[Brick_Sledge]

I hope this works but I've got a bad feeling...