Best book for a big budget film
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You'd need a balance of easy to produce (budget wise), good characters, and a good storyline that owes little to preceding Discworld mythology. I heard that The Wee Free Men was going to be filmed, and I guess that's a good one. And Mort, as long as they don't cut out Death like they apparently intended to do. And maybe Men at Arms (Guards! Guards! doesn't feel as filmic to me).
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See which books have stage plays based on them. And, you know, 'big budget' doesn't equal good movie.
On a sidenote:
NW would NOT make the best film. For various reasons.
1. In the long run it would throw a completely wrong light on the discworld fandom.
2. Too much would have to be cut in order to have non-fans understand stuff. Or at least some of it. Just look at the stuff they changed in CoM/LF or GP without any rhyme or reason. And those were 'merely' made-for-tv productions.
3. There....at brass tacks... isn't actually that much story.
"Well, there's this cop and he accidentally lands in the past and has to assure things go as he remembers them. and there's a psychokiller with him there, too."
Compared to some other books that isn't that much.
Or, as tvtropes put it (in -better than it sounds-)
High-placed copper on the trail of a murderer spends most of the book talking to himself. A future tyrant is bullied by his classmates. People die pointlessly.
On a sidenote:
NW would NOT make the best film. For various reasons.
1. In the long run it would throw a completely wrong light on the discworld fandom.
2. Too much would have to be cut in order to have non-fans understand stuff. Or at least some of it. Just look at the stuff they changed in CoM/LF or GP without any rhyme or reason. And those were 'merely' made-for-tv productions.
3. There....at brass tacks... isn't actually that much story.
"Well, there's this cop and he accidentally lands in the past and has to assure things go as he remembers them. and there's a psychokiller with him there, too."
Compared to some other books that isn't that much.
Or, as tvtropes put it (in -better than it sounds-)
High-placed copper on the trail of a murderer spends most of the book talking to himself. A future tyrant is bullied by his classmates. People die pointlessly.
I think that Sourcery would make the a really good big bufget film, lots great acion scenes, a kick ass action heroine in Conina, comedy froms Rinso and Nigl, epic imagery with the wizards, rising towers and the books. Beautiful landscapes four horsemen in the pub, ... only problem would be losing Rinso at the end but they could always put in the first scene fom Interesting Times on the island. 
I'd vote for The Fifth Elephant.
Not just because it's my favorite DW novel, but because it offers so many different varied characters (humans, werevolves, vampires, dwarves) settings (castles, mines, gingerbread towns, Ankh Morpork. clacks towers) and action scenes. Plus a great mystery story and plenty of great dialogue.
Not just because it's my favorite DW novel, but because it offers so many different varied characters (humans, werevolves, vampires, dwarves) settings (castles, mines, gingerbread towns, Ankh Morpork. clacks towers) and action scenes. Plus a great mystery story and plenty of great dialogue.
HUUUUGE budget?
I vote for all of them... the whole DW series, movie by movie, like they did with Harry Potter....
What can I say? I want them all.
I have NO idea why they want to make AU before any of a number of ther better DW books.
Pyramids could be done in lego.
... with a bit of tweeking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQsdBaXL ... re=related
I vote for all of them... the whole DW series, movie by movie, like they did with Harry Potter....
What can I say? I want them all.
I have NO idea why they want to make AU before any of a number of ther better DW books.
Pyramids could be done in lego.
... with a bit of tweeking.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQsdBaXL ... re=related
Great shout, Fifth Elephant would make a brilliant film. Superb scenery, lots of drama, a great dramatic fight-scene ending, a good comic secondary storyline back in Ankh Morpork with Colon heading up the Watch. And I don't think, unlike Night Watch for example, you need to understand the characters' back stories to get into it.
Someone make it now!!
Thud! would be my second choice I think and Jingo might be fun also, though neither are quite as visceral or filmic as Fifth Elephant to my mind.
Someone make it now!!
Thud! would be my second choice I think and Jingo might be fun also, though neither are quite as visceral or filmic as Fifth Elephant to my mind.