Oh, and they remembered that they'd been richer before they met him

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As enthusiastically as I have proselytized about Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2004) for the last several years—I now find myself telling people that it's my favorite Discworld novel—I was still somewhat surprised to discover that there is an adaptation of it in the works. I'm not disappointed, I'm just not used to anyone having the same favorite anything as me. But unless I hear reason otherwise, I am really going to look forward to it. IMDb tells me that its con-man protagonist, Moist von Lipwig, is going be played by Richard Coyle. Otherwise known (at least to me) as Jeff, from Coupling. And that really has the potential to be awesome.

Comments

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

Yay! Quite honestly, I love the entire Discworld series and would love to see them all made into movies. I've quite enjoyed Hogfather and the animated version of Soul Music, and I just bought Color of Magic a week ago but haven't watched it yet because our TV died and it's rather awkward to try to crowd everyone around the computer with the good flat-panel screen to watch it together as a family. :)

Thanks for mentioning this; it's the first I'd heard of it.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it looks like having the potential to be a good adaptation. That's always what worries me when I hear of things like this on the way.

I hope it works out as well as you'd hope it to.

(At some point I really need to figure out how to go about reading Discworld--I read The Colour of Magic and loved it, but the immensity of the rest of the series has left me slightly at a loss as to how best to attack it.)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I don't know Richard Coyle, but when I'm reading those, the space in my video-imagination for Moist van Lipwig is occupied by Neil Patrick Harris.

[gaudynight78.livejournal.com]

ANYTHING involving Geoff from Coupling (assuming you mean the British one, not the American ripoff) is bound to be good.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

We're reading that one right now as a family book--in very slow time (because the family isn't assembled at the same time much).