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ryonguy posted:Please tell me this isn't just some wishful thinking, and there is actually a City Watch series in production.
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My Lovely Horse posted:"In production" is kind of a loaded phrase. The last news on it was from late 2014; according to that shooting was supposed to start in 2015 but we're almost done with that and you'd think we'd have gotten casting choices. So at this point, who knows, but wheels were definitely in motion at one point. Unseen Academicals is also in that weird limbo. It's been "in production" for almost three years now and nothing seems to have progressed. Still. One day it might happen. One day we might get that Good Omens adaptation we've been promised, too.  The Going Postal TV adaptation is one of the best book-to-film adaptations I've seen, the casting in particular is excellent.
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Well, time for me to go reread Guards, Guards!
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My Lovely Horse posted:"In production" is kind of a loaded phrase. The last news on it was from late 2014; according to that shooting was supposed to start in 2015 but we're almost done with that and you'd think we'd have gotten casting choices. So at this point, who knows, but wheels were definitely in motion at one point. Still better than nothing, but I suspected that was the stage it was at.
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Topsy Turvy pooping? Sounds like a way to have to buy new pants on vacation.
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Oh cool, they've got Uber for icebreakers now.
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Something something storm surge pricing
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St Evan Echoes posted:all the Sky adaptations were good except Colour of Magic, which was hot garbage I concur.
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eating only apples posted:Still. One day it might happen. One day we might get that Good Omens adaptation we've been promised, too. Going Postal was great because it was the first one that didn't stick slavishly to the book. Turns out Discworld books as-is are amazing reads but don't make such good movie scripts. There's more to turning a book into a film than acting out the dialogue verbatim. My Lovely Horse has a new favorite as of 14:29 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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Dec 24, 2015 11:48
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See also Hitchhiker's Guide.
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Data Graham posted:See also Hitchhiker's Guide. Was so excited for that movie 
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The best way to handle a Discworld movie would to just tell an new story in the setting. It's a big world, and there are a ton of threads you could pull in order to tease out an interesting plot. Although I'm not sure how well even the best comedy writer could reproduce Pratchett's sense of humor. In a perfect world, he'd have worked with someone to create an original screenplay, but that's no longer in the cards. Stupid mortality.
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Skippy McPants posted:The best way to handle a Discworld movie would to just tell an new story in the setting. It's a big world, and there are a ton of threads you could pull in order to tease out an interesting plot. Although I'm not sure how well even the best comedy writer could reproduce Pratchett's sense of humor. In a perfect world, he'd have worked with someone to create an original screenplay, but that's no longer in the cards. Stupid mortality. A huge amount of Pratchett's humor was written wordplay which is very difficult to get across in a movie. Like the Curious Squid: quote:The Curious Squid were very small, harmless, difficult to find and reckoned by connoisseurs to have the foulest taste of any creature in the world. This made them very much in demand in a certain kind of restaurant where highly skilled chefs made, with great care, dishes containing no trace of the squid whatsoever.
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That was also the issue with Hitchhiker. So much of the humor is in the little asides Adams wrote that wouldn't really translate well to a coherent plot.
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Goddam British humor is loving terrible
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oldpainless posted:Goddam British humor is loving terrible So sorry that you're too dumb to find funny things funny. I suppose there's always Big Bang Theory for people like you.
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flosofl posted:So sorry that you're too dumb to find funny things funny. I suppose there's always Big Bang Theory for people like you. Lol ok friend
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Hitchhiker's Guide is also a bit of a special case in that it's one story told in many different ways. There's the radio programme, the books, the TV show, the adventure games, the movie, each telling the story in its own way, and the later they are in the chain, the more they pick up from previous manifestations.
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The thing that bugs me about HHGTG movie from '05 with bilbo watson as arthur dent was that they would give me 90% of what I wanted and then just drop it. They would faithfully reproduce, verbatim, the dialog of the whale falling from space, all there, and do I get the final line that made it all worth while? The last sentence that would have taken four seconds to complete the vignette? Nope! I get 20 seconds of a whale exploding from every angle and no punchline. Punchline is the wrong word but goddamn it just finish it! It was so insanely frustrating to know these words by heart, and have the narrator give me thematic blue balls by stopping short literally every time.
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I enjoyed both the books and the movie 
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ryonguy posted:A huge amount of Pratchett's humor was written wordplay which is very difficult to get across in a movie. Like the Curious Squid: One of us doesn't know what wordplay is and I'm pretty sure it's not me
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no it's wordplay, "curious squid" is a pun on uh give me a moment (word play is PLAYING with WORDS, not funny footnotes on things) 
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Shut the gently caress up with your goddamn words, and post funny pictures. This isn't the "chat about books" thread. It's the Funny Pictures thread. Bunch of loving dipshits in here.
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 So loving saved if i will ever buy an avatar.
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Has Science Gone Too Far?!
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Johnny Aztec posted:Shut the gently caress up with your goddamn words, and post funny pictures. This dork dressed like boba fett before it was cool for dorks to dress like boba fett.
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I see Tobias finally got into TV acting.
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oldpainless posted:Goddam British humor is loving terrible Yeah, a bunch of my friends recommended Discworld poo poo to me but i gave up after like 3 books because it was just boring mildly quirky tame humour and it got tiresome pretty quickly.
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When I was a lad, people at least tried to obfuscate their trolling.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Shut the gently caress up with your goddamn words, and post funny pictures. Boba Fett, Attorney at Law
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I like boba fett's confidence I mean those ladies are not into it but drat. Lotta respect for that dad.
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WarpedNaba posted:When I was a lad, people at least tried to obfuscate their trolling. Nah, you were just a lot more credulous back then.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Shut the gently caress up with your goddamn words, and post funny pictures. Actually this thread is the "whiny babies crying forever about not enough visual stimulation for their baby brains" thread. For the record, ALL of your posts in this thread before this last one have been exclusively words without contributing any images. Jamesman has a new favorite as of 23:20 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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He's not wrong
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hhhat posted:He's not wrong No argument from me. poo poo, it's even 65% off.
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flosofl posted:So sorry that you're too dumb to find funny things funny. I suppose there's always Big Bang Theory for people like you. imo it's you who should watch it
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