to be honest i just dont see it. he doesnt seem....right, too evil in a way. i know vetinari is a tyrant of sorts but i dont know. doesnt seem right. i dont like the voice much either

Maybe Bill Nighy?

not evil enough. bill nighys too nice

I don't know, Nighy can do nasty. He's a very good character actor. But I don't know if I can see him as a stealthy assassin.

I can see it I think. Vetinari was a stealthy assassin when he was younger. He's not so young now.

No - Bill Nighy may be many things, but a predatory flamingo he is not. And Christopher Walken is too... psycho-looking.

Actually, having seen HP5 yesterday, I must say the idea of Alan Rickman as Vetinari is growing on me. Nighy, however much I love the actor, is not Vetinari.

Strange, I have been wandering away from the idea. I think he is a great actor, but he fits my mental image of the character less and less. Still, of course, if he can play Snape, a character who, in the books, is more than twenty years younger than Rickman is now... Who knows.

That was more or less what's pulling me back towards it, that and the fact that vetinari is supposed to dye his hair... I always thought Rickman was too old now, but seeing him as Snape kind of rang the right bell...

Anyone think Stephen Briggs looks a little Vetinari? He do any acting?

Actually, I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Stephen Briggs.

In response to that...
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Only on an amateur basis. He has played Vetinari, and according to Wikipedia most representations of him are now modelled to a greater or lesser extent on him (not so sure about that second bit, myself - though if you look under the entry for Caroc Cards in 'The Companion', the sketch of 'The Ruler' card does bear a distinct resemblance to Mr Briggs)

I find his face too pudgy and his eyes too sleepy, but otherwise not bad. Something about him reminds me of Rowan Atkinson though. It might be the pointy eyebrows.

Stephen Briggs would like to play Vetinari in a movie and yes, he does act. He wrote the scripts for several books so that they can be done on the stage and he is involved in a theatre company. He portrays Vetinari at the Conventions and he did also at the town twinning at Wincanton in 2002.

Pictures of Vetinari are very like Briggs but I'm not sure which came first. Apparently Briggs was upset a bit because he didn't get a part in Hogfather but then the Patrician wasn't in it.

Briggs also produces DW merchandise on a website as stephenbriggs.com cmot dibbler