The people who made the Hogfather adaptation have made The Colour Of Magic, which is due on UK TV soon (Easter).

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The casting sounds a bit odd, but otherwise this could be very good.

My thoughts exactly. I was very impressed with The Hogfather, although I've never read the book (it post-dates my like of Pratchett).

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I notice Pratchett himself has another cameo.

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Rather fun to see an actor cast as "The Luggage". Can't wait!

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David Jason is too old to be Rincewind, and while I don't think Sean Astin is a bad actor, he is manifestly not Twoflower. Who is, you know, Auriental.

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Well, now he is of course. When The Color of Magic was written, wasn't he really just a clueless tourist with too much money?

I agree with you, Gillian. I very much like David Jason but he is most definitely not my idea of Rincewind. Still, he may surprise. As an actor myself, I like to see what can be done when cast against type.

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David Jason is too old, too short and too already-played-a-different-Discworld-character to be Rincewind, in my view.

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Those were the exact two issues my wife came up with when she found out about this, and I have to agree.

On the other hand, David Bradley seems ideal for the role of Cohen the Barbarian.

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I don't read those books often; I think they're substandard compared to his later work. However, I'm pretty sure he is Auriental, or at least "foreign," in the first two.

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Twoflower came from the Counterweight Continent, which in Interesting Times was established as having a feudal Chinese-analogue culture and history. Which doesn't mean that any particular type of actor is needed to play him...

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Perhaps he's a McSweeney.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I agree, the later Discworld is much more satisfying.

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Just checked, it was already named the auriental empire in TCoM, together with lots of other hints (ideogrammatical writing, etc.) that gave a certain chinaish impression.

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Okay, I'll concede the point. I can never picture the way people look when I am reading.

Oh, I never pictured twoflower as oriental looking either.

Short, scrawny, with bermuda shorts and the kind of brightly patterned shirt that looks like he's covered in chameleons on acid the one only a middle aged male American tourist would ever consider wearing.

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I always imagined Twoflower as Japanese. With glasses.

From the brief clips used to advertise the programme on Sky I actually think David Jason looks the part as Rincewind but I wonder whether Towflower being cast as an 'American' might spoil it?

Oh, and The Luggage looks brilliant

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