Slvrthoughts and Musings

Pratchett fans will be pleased to know that the long awaited movie (tv movie) version of the first Discworld book has finally come out! It was shown on skyone in the U.K. (http://www.skyoneonline.co.uk/tcom/index.html) and I am very happy to say I thought it was a great kiddie film! For starters, great cast:

Sean Astin as Twoflower (the Tourist)
Tim Curry as Trymon - I love Tim Curry! He is the perfect villain!
Jeremy Irons as The Patrician - It is like the role was made for him!
David Bradley as Cohen the Barbarian - You may recognize him as Finch in The Harry Potter movies.
Laura Haddock as Bethan
David Jason as Rincewind
Christopher Lee as Death
and Terry Pratchett himself as Astrozoologist #2 - I always find it interesting when authors do cameos

Second ... there is a Star Trek and a Star Wars reference, hihihi

And third, they more or less stayed true to the book.

Fourth, I found it fascinating to see how they were able to portray the Luggage and Death. In the Discworld series Death is one of the more interesting characters.

For those of you who haven't decided whether to start the discworld series yet or not, maybe this movie will help you in making a decision.

Movie available for download at your favorite torrent site.