Okay so I'm new but hardly new to Pterry's works.
So I've been lurking a few months now and was going to join when I had the time.
Well!!!! That was until I found this little nugget of news and that was when I decided to join because you should always join a messageboard with a flourish I would say.
I know who's playing Teatime (maybe some of you already know) and Susan, but I've been looking for cast news for weeks now and so far zip.
So to my delight I stumbled on this little link at Digtal Spy which led me to this page on lspace.org
http://www.lspace.org/about-terry/biography.html
which had this near near the bottom:
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Filming is to start in February in Romania on a two-part four-hour mini-series adaptation of Hogfather (by MOB Films) for transmission in the UK on Sky1 next Christmas. It will be live-action with CGI, with Ian Richardson as Death, Sir David Jason as Albert, Marc Warren as Teatime and Michelle Dockery as Susan.
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So I did a search on google for Marc Warren (I know who he is I just wanted more evidence to try and confirm it and found his official page with this little gem on their forum
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HURRAY!!! Just recieved confirmation from Marc's agent Gilly Sanguinetti that Marc *will* be doing a Terry Pratchett film for TV! Details will be added ASAP.
He will be playing Teatime and it will be a live film with CGI. It's a bad guy role....but not his usual baddie! This sounds reeeeeeally interesting! Thanks AGAIN to our Press Secretary Robina, for doing research on this one
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Well yes, thankyou Robina and Minx for posting that one.
So there you have it Marc Warren will be Teatime.
Now I know some of you haven't a scooby who this guy is (and some of you do. Er...scooby means scooby doo - clue) but let me tell you that this is perfect casting because, well you know the rumours flying about that it would be Malcolm McDowell, well Marc is a deadringer for McDowell but with about 30 years shaved off.
He can be seen playing Danny Blue on the BBC's Hustle.
I'll try and dig out a few pics. You won't believe the likeness.
As for Michelle Dockery I will be back with some info about her soon.
Not a bad first post if I do say so myself
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RA