Terry Pratchett's young adult Discworld novel "The Wee Free Men" is getting a film adaptation by the Jim Henson Company.
The story follows nine-year-old young witch Tiffany Aching, her frying pan, and some six-inch angry blue men called the Nac Mac Feegles who seek to save her sibling from the nefarious Queen of Fairyland.
Rhianna Pratchett, who penned both of the recent "Tomb Raider" games, is penning the script and partnering with Henson to make the movie. She says in a press release: "I've loved the Jim Henson Company's work all my life, so it's a great honor to team up with them and bring Wee Free Men to the big screen."
Jim Henson’s son, Brian, will serve as producer on the film alongside Rhianna, Vince Raisa, Rob Wilkins, and Rod Brown.
Source: EW...
The story follows nine-year-old young witch Tiffany Aching, her frying pan, and some six-inch angry blue men called the Nac Mac Feegles who seek to save her sibling from the nefarious Queen of Fairyland.
Rhianna Pratchett, who penned both of the recent "Tomb Raider" games, is penning the script and partnering with Henson to make the movie. She says in a press release: "I've loved the Jim Henson Company's work all my life, so it's a great honor to team up with them and bring Wee Free Men to the big screen."
Jim Henson’s son, Brian, will serve as producer on the film alongside Rhianna, Vince Raisa, Rob Wilkins, and Rod Brown.
Source: EW...
- 7/19/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Beloved writer Neil Gaiman has announced that he is adapting the 1990 novel "Good Omens" into a six-part TV series says The Guardian.
Gaiman co-wrote the book with famed fantasy author Terry Pratchett and, during a memorial event for Pratchett in London last night, revealed this project which he'd originally been against adapting by himself due to the original work being a collaboration:
"Terry and I had a deal that we would only work on Good Omens things together. Everything that was ever written - bookmarks and tiny little things - we would always collaborate, everything was a collaboration. So, obviously, no."
He changed his mind though when Pratchett's longtime friend and assistant Rob Wilkins presented Gaiman with a letter from Sir Terry which he had written before his death. The letter said that Gaiman should write the adaptation solo, with Pratchett's blessing.
Gaiman says: "At that point, I think I said,...
Gaiman co-wrote the book with famed fantasy author Terry Pratchett and, during a memorial event for Pratchett in London last night, revealed this project which he'd originally been against adapting by himself due to the original work being a collaboration:
"Terry and I had a deal that we would only work on Good Omens things together. Everything that was ever written - bookmarks and tiny little things - we would always collaborate, everything was a collaboration. So, obviously, no."
He changed his mind though when Pratchett's longtime friend and assistant Rob Wilkins presented Gaiman with a letter from Sir Terry which he had written before his death. The letter said that Gaiman should write the adaptation solo, with Pratchett's blessing.
Gaiman says: "At that point, I think I said,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Juliette takes a spoiler-filled look at Terry Pratchett's final, very funny and moving Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown...
Warning: this review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
The first Discworld novel I ever read was the third published, Equal Rites. It introduced one of the Discworld’s strongest characters, in every sense of the word. Granny Weatherwax is the good variety of strong female character, able to keep elves at bay and Borrow a swarm of bees, but she is also a strong character in the sense that she feels so completely three-dimensional you almost expect her to leap off the page and scold you for neglecting your common sense.
And now her story has come to an end, and with it, our glimpse into the mirror of worlds we have been enjoying for the past thirty-two years.
It was not entirely deliberate that The Shepherd’s Crown is,...
Warning: this review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
The first Discworld novel I ever read was the third published, Equal Rites. It introduced one of the Discworld’s strongest characters, in every sense of the word. Granny Weatherwax is the good variety of strong female character, able to keep elves at bay and Borrow a swarm of bees, but she is also a strong character in the sense that she feels so completely three-dimensional you almost expect her to leap off the page and scold you for neglecting your common sense.
And now her story has come to an end, and with it, our glimpse into the mirror of worlds we have been enjoying for the past thirty-two years.
It was not entirely deliberate that The Shepherd’s Crown is,...
- 9/1/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
neilgaiman.com
“At Last, Sir Terry, We Must Walk Together. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.” That was how @terryandrob, the joint Twitter account of the fantasy author and his assistant Rob Wilkins confirmed the reports of Terry Pratchett’s death, age 66, of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Pratchett was a prolific author who wrote frequently of death – in fact, a trilogy of books in his grand overarching Discworld series were all about the Grim Reaper himself, the personification of Death struggling with his workload and taking a vacation (with disastrous consequences). When faced with the end of life, Pratchett often responded with the absurd.
Having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few years ago the writer slowed down a little, but by no means was reduced to a snail’s pace: he still...
“At Last, Sir Terry, We Must Walk Together. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.” That was how @terryandrob, the joint Twitter account of the fantasy author and his assistant Rob Wilkins confirmed the reports of Terry Pratchett’s death, age 66, of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Pratchett was a prolific author who wrote frequently of death – in fact, a trilogy of books in his grand overarching Discworld series were all about the Grim Reaper himself, the personification of Death struggling with his workload and taking a vacation (with disastrous consequences). When faced with the end of life, Pratchett often responded with the absurd.
Having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few years ago the writer slowed down a little, but by no means was reduced to a snail’s pace: he still...
- 3/12/2015
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
Sir Terry Pratchett, the British fantasy author, has died after eight years battling Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 66.
The news of his passing was announced by Transworld Publishers, whose managing director Larry Finlay described the prolific author as “one of [the world’s] brightest, sharpest minds.” He went on to say:
“In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention. Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ‘embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely. Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. His legacy will endure for decades to come. My sympathies go out to Terry’s wife Lyn, their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to him.”
Pratchett penned some 70 novels during his career,...
The news of his passing was announced by Transworld Publishers, whose managing director Larry Finlay described the prolific author as “one of [the world’s] brightest, sharpest minds.” He went on to say:
“In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention. Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ‘embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely. Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. His legacy will endure for decades to come. My sympathies go out to Terry’s wife Lyn, their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to him.”
Pratchett penned some 70 novels during his career,...
- 3/12/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
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