I wonder if anyone is able to give me any recent news on the proposed Prime Focus Productions TV series based on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch? As I understand it the series (if it is still going ahead) will probably consist of 13 episodes, each episode based on an original story.
"The main focus of the series will be set in the bustling, highly mercantile, largely untrustworthy and always vibrant city of Ankh Morpork and will follow the day-to-day activities of the men, women, trolls, dwarves, vampires and several other species who daily pound its ancient cobbles (and, of course, Igor in the forensics department). Terry commonly refers to the City Watch police force series "the jewels in his Discworld Crown". These richly developed and highly compelling characters will feature in a 'crime of the week' episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers will be taken on a ride through Pratchett's genius imagination, with the author overseeing the creation of the series, where wild and exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls and golems and the classic heroes and villains, are an everyday occurrence... many of whom even make outstanding crime fighters!"
(Discworld Monthly Extra, March 2011)
I'm sure we'd all love to see this project come to fruition. The casting would be interesting. Ian Richardson as Vetinary perhaps? (or maybe he's a little old for the part). Bernard Hill as Sam Vimes? Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Angua again? (She played her in the mini-series of "Going Postal"). And where are you going to find a 6'6" actor to play Captain Carrot?
"The main focus of the series will be set in the bustling, highly mercantile, largely untrustworthy and always vibrant city of Ankh Morpork and will follow the day-to-day activities of the men, women, trolls, dwarves, vampires and several other species who daily pound its ancient cobbles (and, of course, Igor in the forensics department). Terry commonly refers to the City Watch police force series "the jewels in his Discworld Crown". These richly developed and highly compelling characters will feature in a 'crime of the week' episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers will be taken on a ride through Pratchett's genius imagination, with the author overseeing the creation of the series, where wild and exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls and golems and the classic heroes and villains, are an everyday occurrence... many of whom even make outstanding crime fighters!"
(Discworld Monthly Extra, March 2011)
I'm sure we'd all love to see this project come to fruition. The casting would be interesting. Ian Richardson as Vetinary perhaps? (or maybe he's a little old for the part). Bernard Hill as Sam Vimes? Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Angua again? (She played her in the mini-series of "Going Postal"). And where are you going to find a 6'6" actor to play Captain Carrot?
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