Sorry, I say movie - actually miniseries.

More cast details released:
David Jason as Rincewind (we knew this already *shudder*)
Sean Astin (Sam in LotR) as Twoflower (WHY?? WHY??? He's supposed to be oriental!)
Tim Curry as Trymon (He's 61. Trymon was a young man *sigh*)
Christopher Lee as Death (Yes! Result!)

Source: Astin, Curry, Lee and Jason Do Magic - ComingSoon.net

Sean Astin was doing quite a good Twoflower yesterday, I didn't actually realise who Sean Astin was until someone told me. David Jason looks surprisingly better than you would imagine too when you see him in the Rincewind outfit.

I think the Twoflower character works fine as an American tourist.

So do I, I always thought he was kind of a cross between a Japanese tourist with the camera and a stereotype naive American tourist with more money than sense, certainly when you first meet him getting off the boat and paying massive amounts of money for everything.

Yes, but his whole backstory with the Agathean empire... I realize that does not play a role for this very story, and so could be neglected, but in the minds of Discworld readers the later stories involving twoflower probably set his picture as coming from an oriental - style - culture in stone.

Well he did, Astin, look a little East Asian actually, if that's what people mean by Oriental. Though, for myself, I do find it hard to fathom sometimes why fans see anything like this as "set in stone" when it is set on another planet in a different universe.

Why would an Oriental-style culture (on another world) imply Oriental-looking people? Is there anywhere in the books where he is described as having Oriental features?

By the way, Terry was at the filming and oversaw everything.

It's not real. Why did no-one tell me. I'm gutted. I was planning to visit.

I didn't say it wasn't real, relax, I said it was on another planet in a different universe.

You had me worried there.

Where can you see pictures of the cast in costume?

I don't know, I don't think you can yet. I saw him in person at the filming.

How did you get to see them all at the filming? Have I missed a vital thread somewhere. Or is this information that you think you just casually mention. BECUASE YOU CAN'T!

You missed the Extras thread and a bit in members news.

...Forget wrong country. I live in the wrong hemisphere..


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