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  • Pratchett casting
  • CaptainFlashheart
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    Carrot – Edward Holcroft
    Vimes – Sean Bean
    Sibyl – Miranda Hart (would have been Penelope Keith in her younger years!)
    Moist von Lipwig – David Tennant
    Death – Don Warrington
    Rincewind – Kris Marshall

    Whatever he wants to play – Michael Sheen

    Go!

    Shackleton
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    Ridcully – Jim Broadbent

    Stibbons – Ben Wishaw

    Rincewind – Rhys Ifans

    Nobby – Mackenzie Crook

    Granny Weatherwax – Jean Marsh/Eileen Atkins

    Adora-belle Dearheart – Daisy Edgar-Jones

    Cougar
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    Carrot – One of the Hemsworths. Liam?

    Vimes – Liam Neeson.

    Sibyl – Melissa McCarthy (I’d say Miriam Margolyes but she’s probably knocking on a bit).

    Moist von Lipwig – [David Tennant] – I can’t beat that, it’s perfect casting.

    Death – Voice by James Earl Jones, physical actor Macenzie Crook.

    [Don Warrington] I think you’re getting confused with Death in Paradise.

    Rincewind – [Kris Marshall] Again, I’m loving this.

    Cougar
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    Ridcully – Jim Broadbent

    Brian Blessed.

    perchypanther
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    Ponder Stibbons – Cougar

    perchypanther
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    Nanny Ogg – Miriam Margolyes
    Granny Weatherwax – Sheila Hancock

    swanny853
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    Some good suggestions up there. I’d love to see neeson as vimes. Possibly Daniel Craig- actually, vimes might be an easier one to cast.

    I’m not convinced on Jim Broadbent as ridcully- he may just be irredeemably linked to hot fuzz in my mind- but it did make me think that Hugh Bonneville might stretch to it. Wishaw as Stibbons is excellent.

    Shackleton
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    Probably a bit late but Alan Rickman is who I always imagine as Vetinarii.

    Nanny Ogg – Miriam Margolyes

    Perfect

    swanny853
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    Vetinari is harder than I expected- Ralph fiennes?

    Albert- Peter Capaldi

    After guardians of the galaxy, I find myself thinking about vin diesel and accompanying cgi team as the librarian…

    jekkyl
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    Gaspod’s voice – Ricky Gervais.

    All the wee free men all voiced by Billy Connolly and Frankie Boyle.

    JonEdwards
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    I believe that TP had Pete Postlethwaite in mind to be Vimes…

    cb
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    Vimes is Brendan Gleeson all day long. Sean Bean!!!! You’re not ruining my imagination with him!

    colp
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    The luggage – Priti Patel?

    mattstreet
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    Librarian – Andy Serkis

    joshvegas
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    Dearheart and angua i thought they nailed the casting there in going postal.

    Pyro
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    Jim Broadbent as the Bursar…

    13thfloormonk
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    Probably a bit late but Alan Rickman is who I always imagine as Vetinarii

    I always thought this too ☹

    Any space for Eddie Izzard? One of the wizards, maybe Ponder Stibbons?

    I’m struggling with Rincewind, needs to be someone scrawny and weaselly but more morose than Garth Crooks.

    Adrian Edmonson as Nobby? Or could Tony Robinson reprise his Baldrick role?

    Edit: I feel it really needs to be a Jim Henson production, they could just dust of the Labyrinth sets and turn them in to Ankh Morpork! 😁

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Some joyous mental images in my head of some of these suggestions, would be a great way to introduce people to Pratchetts genius

    perchypanther
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    Rincewind has always been Eric Idle.
    Vimes is Ray Winston, Vetinari is Ben Kingsley.

    13thfloormonk
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    Ha, wife has suggested Russel Crowe, Hugh Jackman or McNulty from the wire as left-field choices for Vimes.

    Dare I say it, could Buscemi go comedic enough for Rincewind? Or William H Macy?

    Am wary of too many British/BBC types, it go all go horribly ‘family BBC’ bland like Gormenghast did…

    Drac
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    Rincewind has always been Eric Idle

    ^this.

    13thfloormonk
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    Bill Nighy for Death?

    Eric Idle a great choice for Rincewind, I was desperately trying to shoe-horn John Cleese in but it wasn’t working.

    MSP
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    Librarian – Andy Serkis

    Andy Serkis is actually a quality actor **** hiding him behind cgi, they ruined black panther when they killed him off. I think he would make a great Vimes, a good guy with proper demons.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Bill Nighy for Death?

    Yes

    perchypanther
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    You can’t have an American or anyone who was in a Harry Potter film, which is a shame because Maggie Smith would have been a perfect Granny Weatherwax

    RustySpanner
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    Willie Rushton as Ridcully (one for the kids there).

    My Auntie Rita as Wetherwax. Trust me on this.

    Michael Palin – Dibbler.

    perchypanther
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    Willie Rushton as Ridcully

    Nailed it.

    nickc
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     or anyone who was in a Harry Potter film

    That excludes 90% of British actors

    13thfloormonk
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    You can’t have an American or anyone who was in a Harry Potter film, which is a shame because Maggie Smith would have been a perfect Granny Weatherwax

    Yeah… I do agree on both points, but was willing to give some Americans a shot if they could dial down the Hollywood a bit (unless, of course, we’re doing Moving Pictures).

    RustySpanner
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    Toby Jones as Nobby?

    I always had Brendan Gleeson as more of a Colon.

    gecko76
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    David Jason played Rincewind in one of the Sky adaptations. They got the wrong Trotter.

    13thfloormonk
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    Vimes is Brendan Gleeson all day long

    Sgt Colon surely!

    Edit: beaten to it by Rusty Spanner

    Although does the Harry Potter caveat rule out Brendan Gleeson? Would be a shame…

    And since we’re in ‘In Bruges’ territory, could Colin Farrell fit a role? He played a suitably rat-like character in that movie about the escaped POWs crossing Tibet. Can’t fit him in though, he’d have to be a good looking Nobby Nobs or maybe a more obscure character like Pteppic the Assassin…

    13thfloormonk
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    Hmm… just a thought, could Rowan Atkinson do Vetinari? He can do the precise meticulous mannerisms quite well, can certainly do a look of constant, weary distaste, and as we all know can be extremely cunning…

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Rowan Atkinson do Vetinari

    That might work. I liked the idea of Alan Rickman playing him – apart from the obvious flaw in the plan – but a bit worried he’d just come across as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Prince of Thieves again. Though he was the only highlight in that shower of shite.

    Pyro
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    Charles Dance as Vetinari. They got it right in Going Postal…

    alanw2007
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    Dwayne Johnson as Detritus

    willard
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    Russel Crowe for Vimes would work. In The Nice Guys he showed what he can do for range and I think he could put across the world weariness of Sam Vimes well.

    Steve Rogers (he of Captain America) could do Carrot… As long as he could do the accent and the innocence.

    Cougar
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    Rincewind has always been Eric Idle

    Eric Idle has been Rincewind. He voiced the character in (at least?) one of the Discworld video games.

    Ponder Stibbons – Cougar

    More like Bloody Stupid Johnson.

    joshvegas
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    They guy who played the demon headmaster should play vetinari.

    MSP
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    Vetinari, is an assassin and a tyrant (although often benevolent in his tyranny), his disguise is that of bureaucrat, and everyone knows it. Having him speak gently to you should be terrifying, if he agrees with something you said alarms bells should be ringing. He isn’t **** Mr Bean!

    To create the right mix of sinister, intelligence, ruthless yet caring for the society he has created, it has to be a Daniel Day-Lewis!

    It has to be someone you could imagine moving efficiently down a dark passage full of booby traps, knowing exactly where to step, where to pivot, spin or duck, and not end it with a prat fall.

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