![]() ![]() ![]() There are also animated efforts such as Soul Music but these were also made without the money to bring the work to its full potential. They contain many digressions and are often so imaginative that depicting them on screen without the greatest of budgets, which would never be allocated to such a project, leads to disappointment.Įfforts in live action include The Colour of Magic, Hogfather and Going Postal, all made for TV and having the budgets to make that obvious. Structurally, the books are winding and do not easily fit into the three-act structure. Without an equally impressive visual language, his books translate to meandering slogs on-screen. Pratchett’s character observations, descriptions of bizarre customs and frequent use of hilarious footnotes adds so much to the text. One of them is that the joy of reading the books is often in the writing style itself which cannot easily translate to the screen. As is the case with many popular works of fantasy, film and TV producers have looked to bring it into their particular mediums, with mixed results.ĭiscworld is hard to bring to the screen for various reasons. ![]() The world sits atop four elephants standing on a giant turtle that flies through space. Over the course of 41 books, Pratchett introduced us to a wide range of characters, cities and absurd situations taking place across a flat disc-shaped world. ![]() Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is one of the most beautifully crafted, funny and insightful fantasy series of the last century. ![]()
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