One thread you can tell was revived from the title.
It will be on BBC America, and I’ll watch in another 8 years when it gets finished and released.
My only quibble is Lara Rossi as Sybil. I always had the impression that she and Vimes were a good match because they were both misfits despite having power. Lara Rossi looks way too attractive to be a Sybil.
Yeah, no offense to Lara Rossi’s acting ability, but she does not look at all like Lady Sybil should. I always imagined it should be someone like Miranda Hart.
Interesting that they’ve gone with a NB actor for Cheery. I don’t agree with that choice, I think it undermines the message of Cheery’s liberation as a decidedly binary female Dwarf. But we’ll see how it goes. NB actors, of anybody, should be able to play any gender they want, gods know they have no problem casting straight men as trans women.
I actually liked both of these and Going Postal and love Good Omens so I have some hope this can be done right.
Reading more on some of the actor choices. So the producers see that one of the characters is a dwarf, quite well noted for being height-challenged. So who do they think is the best fit for that role? Some who is 6 fucking feet 2 inches! That is probably even worse than picking a skinny young woman for fat middle-aged Sybil. This is going to be a train wreck of epic proportions.
Special effects (or not-so-special effects, like kneeling) can easily correct that. If there are good performances and good writing, then this will be fine. If there are bad performances and bad writing, then it will not. The height and physical appearances of the actors are far, far less important than the acting, writing, directing, and production.
Or–you know–you could have a (fantasy) dwarf played by a (real) dwarf.
We’ll see (and fantasy dwarves are not the same as RW dwarves). Maybe the show will be good, or maybe it will be bad, but I doubt a single casting choice will be the difference.
We are already at at least two shitty casting choices–Sybil and Cherry. I’m just waiting to see Justin Beeber cast as Nobby Nobbs. Gaspode will be played by a horse and Vetinari will be played by a different horse.
So far they’ve fucked up two major casting choices and the adaptation. I hold little hope that the writing, direction and production will be any better. We’re looking at a series written by a barely-literate high schooler with Dr. Who Season 3 production values starring the cast of a dinner theatre version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?
Spiffing. Just spiffing.
They do look to be going in the SG1:90210 direction.
He’s okay, I guess. I still think Simon Pegg would have been perfect - for one, he’s actually funny (Discworld is still a comedy, isn’t it?); for another, he’s basically already played a slightly younger, less experienced Vimes in *Hot Fuzz. * And he looks more like Pratchett’s character is described, too.
Pratchett based Vimes on Clint Eastwood, just saying.
He also said that he looked like the late Pete Postlewaithe. Fun fact: if you did a digital melding of Clint Eastwood’s and Pete Posthlewaithe’s faces, you’d get Simon Pegg.
If you have Simon Pegg for Vimes, you get a free Nick Frost for Colon, so it’s economical…
Just like how if you get Hugh Laurie as Patrician Vetinari, you also get a free Stephen Fry as Archchancellor Ridcully. That’s how it works.
Miranda Hart? Sybil’s whole thing is being large in all sorts of ways, not tall and gawkish.
I am baffled by the Rossi casting, tbh. I was going to suggest the new plus-sized Sheridan Smith as a better Lady Sybil, but apparently she’s been busy losing the weight again.
Humour. It is a difficult concept.
What, you don’t think they’re funny?