Many years ago, I wrote a screenplay for a fan film of Maskerade by Terry Pratchett. It never got made because everyone else involved was a flake, damn them. Anyway, never mind. About a year later, I was the flake when someone asked me if I could write a script for a version of The Colour of Magic. I just couldn't make it work (because there's no coherent story, just a bunch of episodes), so it never went anywhere.
But but but, the big idea I had was to combine The Colour of Magic and its sequel The Light Fantastic, to give the thing a bit of structure. And I just checked out the website for Sky's adaptation of The Colour of Magic aaaaand, guess what they've done?
Well. Seems like it wasn't such a killer idea at all. At least it got made, I guess. And, hey, Sky? If you're thinking of doing Maskerade at any point, I have this script...
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Oh, but obviously their version will be shit whereas mine would have rocked. It would not, for a start, have involved David Jason in any way.
Mmmm...flakes.
What did you think of Hogfather? I don't have Sky this time around so will miss the Colour of Magic, all the trailers are so...clean cut though. Just wrong!
Only a _bit_ of a flake.
Anyway, I still think your Maskerade script was really good, and you might want to talk to http://www.mobfilm.com/ who are the people who made Hogfather and tCOM
Haha, oh all right, it was mostly that we couldn't raise money.
I would feel rather uncomfortable approaching mobfilm, like some dorky fan, but on the other hand... well, what's to lose?
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