And since we're somewhat dreaming, I'd *really* like to see "The Colour of Magic", "The Light Fantastic" and "Interesting Times", preferably with Johnny Depp as Rincewind. :)

Thanks for the "Hogfather" news, Dan! :)

P.S. "Soul Music" was... bad. :( IMO. YMMV.

A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which wet down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said 'Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centes of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys. Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years.

Terry Pratchett

Then there's this one on Good Omens, which still hasn't appeared (but will ROCK if it ever does)

The difference between me and Neil in our attitude to movie projects is that he doesn't believe they're going to happen until he's sitting in his seat eating popcorn, and I don't believe they're going to happen.

-- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

I'm not nearly as much of a Pratchett nerd as I used to be, but this can only be a Good Thing. I thought Wyrd Sisters was basically teh suck. Ian Richardson is a reasonable choice.. Although Terry always had a certain leaning which may have biased me:

Death isn't on line. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it'd be interesting to see if he'd post things like: DON'T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?

-- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)