Discworld Movie finally in the works?

[Shalmanese]

From a recent Discworld Newsletter:

2. RAIMI TACKLES THE WEE FREE MEN

Best-selling author Terry Pratchett’s novel THE WEE FREE MEN
is set to be turned into a film by Sam Raimi, after he finishes work on
SPIDER-MAN 3 (due to begin shooting THIS MONTH for a 2007 release).

The story is one in Pratchett’s Discworld series, and follows nine year-old
Tiffany Aching, a young girl with a talent for witchcraft, who finds
adventure
when the evil Queen of the Fairies kidnaps her small, sticky brother.
She is assisted in this by the wee free men of the Clan Nac MacFeegle, a
group of vaguely Scottish, boozy, kilt-wearing, thieving, fighting blue
six-inch
“pictsies”.

The novel is part of the British author’s Disc World series, whose
volumes are big sellers around the world. Project came together
after Pettler read the book and persuaded Gerardis and Vicinanza,
who controlled the rights for the author, to come aboard. Raimi and
Donen sparked to their pitch.

Pettler most recently co-penned “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
and co-wrote for Sony the Robert Zemeckis-directed CGI pic
“Monster House.” She’s writing “9,” a CGI fantasy for Focus
Features that Burton is producing and Shane Acker is directing,
and is rewriting “Nick Tungsten, Nightmare Hunter” for director Doug
Liman at Paramount and Nickelodeon. Pettler is also set to adapt
Roald Dahl novel “The Twits” for Disney and Vanguard

Columbia exec Sam Dickerman will supervise.

Terry admits that “happy discussions” have been taking place. As he
says, in his past experience, “planned movies do not happen,” but he’ll
be very happy when he’s proved wrong.

Thoughts? I know the idea of a movie pops up every few years or so, will this be different? Is this a good movie to adapt? Who would you cast?

[GuanoLad]

We’ve talked a bit about it already in [thread=355339]this thread here[/thread].