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Terry Pratchett’s Truckers is alive! Again! Maybe!

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An animated adaptation of Truckers, Terry Pratchett’s children’s novel about tiny nomes whose entire world (that is, a department store) is ending, has apparently found a new writer: Slumdog Millionaire’s Simon Beaufoy.

This comes after a flurry of rumors in the past couple of days that Beaufoy would be writing a Wolverine sequel.

Are we right in assuming this means the animated adaptation of Truckers is once again alive? Hopefully. The film has been in development since at least 2001, but has suffered some false starts–Frank Cotrell Boyce’s name has previously been attached to the project as writer.

This January, planned director Danny Boyle (also of Slumdog Millionaire fame) seemingly definitively said the Truckers adaptation was dead: “It’s fallen apart. Frank Cotrell Boyce (Millions) and I were going to do it for DreamWorks but sadly no longer.”

But after Slumdog Millionaire’s awards sweep this year, Boyle and Beaufoy have chosen to start working on an animated Truckers, for Dreamworks.

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• Comments

  • Tamsin:

    I really hope it will be one of the first Pratchett books to hit the big screen!

  • Shoshana:

    I know! If it happens, this could be huge.

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