Wee Free Men film

Terry Pratchett on chapters, Wee Free Men film

2 December 2007 (18:55) Comment!

HarperCollins has released a transcript of an interview with Terry Pratchett conducted in September. Terry Pratchett makes some interesting comments about the new chapters in Going Postal and Making Money:

Going Postal, and indeed it’s successor Making Money both have a somewhat Victorian feel to them so I thought it might be fun to go back to the glorious era of chapter headings which were practically an index to the book! In the same way I found you could have fun with footnotes, I have now learned that chapter headings can be quite amusing.

He also lets drop a hint about the Wee Free Men movie to be directed by Sam Raimi, saying, “I have got on very well with Pamela Pettler who is the script writer, so right now I am feeling quite optimistic.”

Colour of Magic film info, another book to feature Moist?

2 November 2007 (11:18) 2 Comments

Terry Pratchett made a recent appearance at Barnes & Noble in Union Square as part of his Making Money promotional tour. You can see his speech on the Barnes & Noble site as a webcast. Terry Pratchett (wearing one black glove!) explains how he had a stroke but never noticed, how writing has helped him through hard times, and how “plots work much better when you run them backwards.” There are lots of other tidbits which we have here.

The Colour of Magic film:
• Sean Astin plays Twoflower “absolutely wonderfully.”
• The actor who plays the Patrician will not be announced until the release of the film.
• David Bradley is “absolutely magnificent” as Cohen the barbarian.
• The fire at the Broken Drum has been filmed.
Other films:
• Michelle Dockery played Susan “superlatively well” in Hogfather.
• “The Wee Free Men movie might happen.” The script needs work, but the three-and-a-half hour conference with Sam Raimi “means something.”
• “Mort is stirring in the mud.”
Writing:
• I Shall Wear Midnight will be the next, and probably last, Tiffany Aching book.
• Another book featuring Moist von Lipwig, called Raising Taxes, is beginning to form, though Pratchett hasn’t started writing it yet.
• The Folklore of Discworld is in the works.
• Terry Pratchett considers Wintersmith the best book he’s ever written.
• He doesn’t want to write any more time travel stories.
• Revisiting older characters like Rincewind or the witches is “always possible,” but we will probably not see the Silver Horde again.

For more detail and some well-told anecdotes, please watch the webcast; it’s well worth your hour.