Pratchett's Hogfather Live-action Adaptation

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, from the ridiculously popular fantasy series Discworld, has been made into a two part live-action film set to broadcast on Sky One December 17th and 18th.



Plot synopsis::

Spoiler:

In Discworld, it’s the night before Hogswatch. You know, that special night when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the Hogswatch mid-winter festival in the medieval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. What the Hogfather doesn't realize is that he's being watched by the Auditors—the Discworld’s grey-robed specters who audit not money but the entire universe and maintain the neat order of things. They think human beings are ridiculous; that they are ruining the perfect universe with their willful fantasies—fantasies that make humans, well... human. Now they’ve formulated a plan to destroy human belief so that there's not an atom of it left and the Discworld can finally be theirs.

They approach Lord Downey (David Warner, The Omen) the Head of The Assassins' Guild with a proposal: enlist the ruthless Mr. Teatime (Marc Warren, Hustle) to kill the Hogfather. A dire situation indeed when the Hogfather disappears, because if the presents aren’t delivered, all hope will be lost, and the sun will never rise again. While Death (voice of Ian Richardson, Bleak House), is summoned to fill the fat man’s shoes, a further plan to outwit the Auditors is underway. But who can stop them? Death’s adopted granddaughter and mild-mannered governess Susan Sto-Helit (Michelle Dockery, Fingersmith)? Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland, Asylum), Head of the Unseen University? Ridcully’s motley band of wizards? Hex, the thinking engine? Someone had better act fast, or the Auditors' terrible vision for a hopeless world will become a dismal reality and could spell out the end of humanity as we know it.

Sir Ian Richardson is the voice of DEATH, which I feel is entirely appropriate. The film cost £6,000,000 and was shot/will be shown in HD.

I don't live in the UK, and I don't really watch TV that much anymore, and I'm not exactly in one of my Discworld-obsession modes at the moment. So maybe this is ancient news to most, but it's big news to me. Hogfather is one of my favorite Discworld novels, DEATH and Mr. Teatime being two of my favorite characters from the series.

Official Site
Photo gallery of the cast
Watch video clips and making-ofs.

ALSO, The 12 Days of Hogswatch Video countdown introduces the characters and universe of Discworld, hosted by DEATH!
Day One.
Day Two.
Day Three.
Day Four.
Day Five.
Day Six.
Day Seven.
Day Eight.
Day Nine.
Day Ten
Day Eleven
Day Twelve

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Sky One is starting a countdown, if you will: The 12 Days of Hogswatch. It's a little series of videos introducing people to the characters and universe of Discworld. Slightly cheesy, but entertaining all the same.
Hosted by DEATH! <3

I'll post the links to each day in the first post, and here as well.
Day One.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well, you have to admit that those animated versions were quite old. I've only watched Soul Music, and it was just...um...well. I could handle it because I'm a fairly big fan of the Discworld series, but I'm still overjoyed that this film will do one of the books proper justice.

Oh, by the way :: Day 2

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Here's for days three and four (sorry, I skipped one. not that anyone noticed)
Day Three.
Day Four.

Most amazing jew boots

Okay, sorry for not updating on a regular basis (Tombstone pizza thing put a wrench in things as well...kept being banned )

Day Five.
Day Six.
Day Seven.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Here goes days 8 and 9::

Day Eight.
Day Nine.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'm pretty happy with the casting so far as well...and I was delighfully surprised by Teatime. After I read the novel I had tried drawing character sketches of him (since he was one of my favorite characters in Hogfather), and the way they've made him look is pretty darn close to how I was imagining him. And Susan is spot-on, no doubt about that.

And by the way: Day 10

FELIPE NO

It's the last two days:
Day Eleven
Day Twelve

And today's the premiere! Hogfather is tonight at 8pm in the UK. I hope somebody records it and uploads it to a BT tracker or something after it airs... that's how I got to watch all of the Master and Margarita when it was airing in Russia. They were super-effecient, getting the rip out onto the internet right after it showed on TV.

How ya doing, buddy?

I just finished part one, and I think it was done very well. There were some editing hiccups that were odd, but overall I thought so far it's been a very good adaptation. Death and Albert were making me giggle quite a bit; it makes me really want "Reaper Man" to be adapted into a live-action film.

I wonder how the 'uninitiated' into the Discworld universe fare while watching this... opinions?

Jam it back in, in the dark.