Mort by Terry Pratchett5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Studios have been sniffing around Pratchett’s work since the 1980s, and there have been several near misses over the years. ![]() So putting Pratchett on the big screen, with the accompanying budget, should be a no-brainer. Meanwhile several of his novels have been made successfully for the small screen, in stop-motion, traditional animation and live-action. Some of these books were adapted in the ‘90s for the stage, three successful video games, and even a prog rock album. Pratchett even writes cinematically-almost all of his adult novels are written without chapters, skipping scene-to-scene just as a movie does. Though Pratchett has been adapted a handful of times for television, most recently with Amazon’s Good Omens (excellent) and BBC America’s The Watch (patchy), this will be the first true big-screen take on a Pratchett book*, which is frankly astonishing when you consider that Sir Terry has been a bestseller since the mid-‘80s, with a series of accessible and cinematic comic fantasy hits, most of which would lend themselves to the screen. release of The Amazing Maurice, a feature length adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed 2001 YA novel. ![]()
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