Apparently, Australian Snowgum Films has been working for the past eight years on a short-film adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s short story “Troll Bridge”. Judging from the quality of the teaser trailer and the video on their Kickstarter page, this looks like a really solid production, even though I think the teaser should have shown a bit more of Old Cohen as well. (Old Cohen also looks spot-on.) These guys apparently have a bit of a history with Discworld short films. Even Pterry himself has given his approval to the project, which is really cool.
Unfortunately, the reason they’ve taken eight years so far is that they just don’t have “any bloody money”. Fortunately, they discovered Kickstarter, which gives individual people the opportunity to donate towards the completion of the movie - anything from $1 to $5000, which gives you, among other things, “a small slide of the director’s blood”. (“Thanks to those who’ve donated, and remember, the human male has about 5 litres of blood in them, so Dan’s got plenty more to give”, wrote the producer to SomethingAwful members in response to a flurry of donations.) They’ve currently raised a bit over $32 000 of the required $45K, which is around 4 thousand dollars more than they had this morning when I signed up.
I figured, if nothing else, there’s a fair amount of Dopers who would be thrilled to know that such a project is in the works, even if they don’t want to or can’t donate anything at this point. Share good news, I always say. Here’s to hoping that “Troll Bridge” completes production. I want more Old Cohen!
(This thread has mod approval, by the way. Just thought I’d mention that before someone accuses me of being a shill for Snowgum or something.;))