After a 5 years break, Terry Gilliam is directing a movie again. And not just any movie, but the first ever Terry Pratchett movie (bar an animated Soul Music). A perfect match?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0155724/ (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0155724/)
Yeah, I'd love to see this, but it's having trouble getting off the ground. Gilliam is currently filming this: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/combined
I'm hanging out for this:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/
Watch the tailer here:
http://www.pixar.com/theater/trailers/incredibles/teaser_240.html
Gilliam has been set to direct that for quite some time, but it's starting to look about as likely as Watchmen, to me.
There's another Neil Gaiman-related movie coming out next year, though (he wrote the script, and his frequent artist collaberator Dave McKean is directing) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/combined
Also, if Good Omens does get made, it wouldn't be the first time Terry Pratchett has been shot live action - the Johnny Maxwell books were adapted into a children's series for english televison (the imdb only lists Johnny and the Dead, but I'm sure I can remember watching at least Only You Can Save Mankind as well) which I think have also been broadcast as TV movies.
Don't forget, Wyrd Sisters also got made into a cartoon...
...I turned it off after about 45 minutes, though. It lacked, well... everything.
Cartoons aint the best way to turn books into movies in my opinion.
Yeah, I saw Wyrd Sisters. It wasn't great, but it did give me a good idea of Discworld would work in a cinematic format. I hope someone makes a full-blown Discworld movie, someday.
I've heard that the Soul Music cartoon is better. It's not on Netflix though.
Soul Music the cartoon is VERY good, if only because you get to see and hear the band perform instead of just reading about it. I even bought the soundtrack.
:-)
QuoteStatus described as 'stalled' by the director in a recent Onion interview.
Oh dear...
Everyone's forgetting Truckers! That TV series was great. The books were good too. But the series... mad little gnome puppets running around, fighting foxes, hiding in trucks...
I didn't get to watch the whole series because my mum didn't like it. But it was brilliant.
I've watched both the Discworld cartoon series as well. They're actually pretty good, if you're a hardcore fan and willing to get past the shoddy animation and so on.
TP was in negotiations for a long time to make a Discworld movie. He talks about it in the interviews before Sould Music and Wyrd Sisters (on the videos). It was actually a confirmed thing at that stage. I think it's probably cancelled now, though, because a whole bunch of fans had a bitch about how it wouldn't be the same.
Retards. Of course it won't be the same as what they imagine, but it can still be good.
- Punch
That reminds me, there is a Truckers, Diggers and Wings movie (movies?) planned: http://www.animated-movies.net/TruckersDiggersAndWings.html
Haven't read them, though.
Good Omens has been in pseudo-production for ages now. I've been following its progress for years but I highly doubt it's going to go through. There have been no new developments for almost a year.
Another Gilliam film I was looking forward to with ALMOST the same rabid enthusiasm was The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, but as anyone who has seen Lost in La Mancha knows, that movie is quite dead as well.
AFAIK, Watchmen isn't even in consideration anymore.
Gilliam's next film was going to be The Defective Detective, but as it turns out (and as someone else mentioned) he's currently working on The Brothers Grimm. I'm looking forward to it, simply because it's a Gilliam film, but I'm not thrilled about Heath Ledger and Matt Damon in the lead roles. On the other hand, I'm thrilled about Jonathan Pryce in the bad guy seat.
and DG: I saw the trailer for The Incredibles while seeing Finding Nemo, and I gotta say I'm pretty damn excited.