Updated Colour of Magic cast list, poster

27 December 2007 (12:53) The Colour of Magic Cast and Crew Films News News Archives

RHI Entertainment has updated its library section to include The Colour of Magic. The new section includes a poster and a synopsis, which gives some clues to the changes the film adaptation has made to the books it is based off of, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. To quote the synopsis:

Failed wizard Rincewind (Bafta Winner Sir David Jason, Hogfather) is so bad at magic he only knows one spell. And he doesn’t even know what it does. This goes some way to explaining why he is expelled from the Unseen University for Wizards. Despondent, he contemplates throwing himself into the river that flows through Ankh-Morpork, the Discworld’s biggest city. However, his attention is diverted by the arrival of Twoflower (Oscar Nominee Sean Astin, Lord of the Rings), the Discworld’s unreasonably optimistic first Tourist. But most of all, his attention is diverted by the tourist’s Luggage which is not only full of pure gold but is also able to walk by itself…. Rincewind’s departure also seems to have excited the Octavo, the greatest spell book of all, chained because of its danger in the dungeons of the University. And this disturbance has not escaped the attention of ambitiously evil wizard Trymon (Emmy Award winner Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) who plans to become Archchancellor of the University and discover the Octavo’s secrets. (Full synopsis.)

Additionally, RHI’s extensive cast list has allowed us to update our cast list, with the additions of

• Roger Aston Griffiths as Lumuel Panter
• Will Keen as Ganmack Treehallett
• Peter Copley as Spold
• Andy Robb as Third Rank Wizard
• Ian Burfield as Ymor
• Arthur White as Rerpf
• Pia Mechler as Weems
• Andy Linden as Blind Hugh
• Nigel Planer as Arch Astronomer
• Adam Ewan as Master Launch Controller
• Philip Philmar as Astrozoologist 1
• Terry Pratchett as Astrozoologist 2
• Thomas Morrison as Dim Student
• Joe Sims as Big Star Man/Star Refugee

Terry Pratchett continues the tradition started in Hogfather with another cameo in this adaptation as “Astrozoologist 2.”