# Hogfather as movie? Huh? Did we know this?

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**Created:** [July 28, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hogfather-as-movie-huh-did-we-know-this/366470 "2006-07-28T22:35:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hogfather-as-movie-huh-did-we-know-this/366470/21 "2006-12-11T17:08:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Captain Carrot]  
Problem is, though, it’s coming out in the UK. From what I can tell from Wikipedia, Sky One doesn’t generally broadcast to countries not possessed by the English.  
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You do know that Pratchett has had a fairly rocky history with Hollywood, don’t you? Apparently strife over a possible _Good Omens_ movie is a contributing factor to the lack of the sequel, _668: The Neighbour of the Beast._ In addition there was the Mort move:

> [@](#):
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> Terry wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and  
> everything was looking fine and then the US backers said “Hey, we’ve  
> been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other  
> centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn’t work for us,  
> it’s a bit of a downer, we have a problem with it, so lose the skeleton”.  
> The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans  
> said: sure, we LOVE it, it’s GREAT, it’s HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the  
> Death angle, guys.
> 
> Whereupon, Terry is happy to say, they were told to keep on with the  
> medication and come back in a hundred years.

The quote is from [www.lspace.org](http://www.lspace.org) , source for all things Pratchettian.

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**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hogfather-as-movie-huh-did-we-know-this/366470/22 "2006-12-11T17:59:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Dervorin]  
Up, Rooter! Up, Gouger! Up, Tusker! Up, Snouter! 😃  
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Apple! Sauce!

Oh and I hate you Brits with your odd teeth and your cool shows and and I’m gonna take my Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and go home and that’ll prove who’s best and mumble mumble mumble

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