Further cast details for CoM movie

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.

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.

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

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!

Sorry, I thought everyone knew. I am in The Colour of Magic film as a supporting artist. :biggrin:

P.S. So is Marcia.

Oh, I was going to put a line in my sig. Something like: "You may remember me from such films as The Colour of Magic" - after it's out on DVD. Do you think that might be too much? :smile:

He does seem like a really nice guy too, friendly and dedicated to get his role just right.

By the way, here is the first picture released of the supporting artists, I'm stupidly holding my hat in front of my face so you can't see me (obviously the guy in the trainers is part of the crew). A full collection of photos will be available in September, which I'll make a proper thread for. The film is out next Easter.

The scene is just outside the gates of Unseen University, the star thing is a target we made to foolishly lure the star falling from the sky.

I just got a CD with lots of pictures of the supporting artists in The Colour of Magic.

They all had to be approved by the film company, which means there's no interesting scenery to see - only us lot in silly clothes and some of Terry Pratchett, and couple with Sean Astin, and the director.

Anyway I'll try to add them all into the gallery over the next week or so, here's Marcia and I on the edge of Sator Square. Just above my head, in the background, is the remains of a pulley system where I and group of fellow workers dropped a wizard-turned-to-stone, which smashes on the ground as Rincewind, Twoflower and the Librarian are walking by. Of course it wasn't my fault that we dropped it!

Awesome! I'd love to see more pictures if you can get them. Seeing people I know as Ankh-Morporkians is better than seeing the main characters!

Well here's a picture of him instead, dressed as Twoflower, not quite as good but it does have some guy with a beard in there too.

Personally I don't think he looks very far removed from how I imagine Twoflower to look.

That's such a great picture! I second, we want more.
And despite my different mental image of Twoflower, Sean Austin looks cute in a way, in that picture, like someone you'd want to take under your wings so he doesn't get lost... Among people dressed like you were, he's going to look a little bit like a time traveller, won't he?

I suppose Twoflower is like a time traveller in a way; in CoM he has all these high tech gadgets that no one has ever seen before, he goes on holiday to visit all sorts of exotic, yet primitive places seeking adventure, dragons and magic - all the while knowing he'll have to return to "civilization" working behind a desk.

Yes, if only they'd let you wear Magrats!

This is a picture of what I wore on the first morning. We were told to bring our own costumes, I was trying for an Ankh Morpork middle management look. I almost got away with it too, I past three different inspections and was about to enter the first film set when a woman picked me and someone else, dressed like Blackadder I, out of the crowd and refitted us like common peasants instead.

Awesome! But why are you teasing us with so few photos?

Because I don't have time to resize them all in one go. Anyway most of them are full of people we don't know.

I knew someone was going to say that. What I mean is I don't have time to resize them, upload them and write a bit about them in the gallery all at once - so I'm doing one here and there when I have a spare ten minutes or so.

I think you really just want to make my head explode. Go on, admit it! It's Evil Mal really.

Of course I'm not!

Anyway, here is part of a wizard shot during a spectacular scene involving magical effects:

Weird but cool! I wonder what happened to the rest of him?

Sorry, that isn't really a wizard from the film, I was just teasing... I don't actually have any pictures of the wizards, part from one where an extra was dressed up as one briefly, not me though unfortunately.

One of the first bits we did was listing to this guy blaming the wizards for everything, the "rabble rouser", then shout for the wizards to come out of the university. This is a picture of me hanging on his every word, the guy of the left is someone called Waddy who runs Wadfest (a Discworld camping event), they aren't his real teeth but I did wonder if they were or not for a long time. I can't remember the name of the guy on the right, but he was a nice man.

Yes I was asked to remove it. I don't know why they don't want it on there, or even who doesn't want it on there, just that I wasn't allowed to put it up there and I took it off as soon as I was told to.

That's a great picture, Mal! I'm enjoying all of these.

Yes, Tim Curry was at the filming we went to. He does play Trymon, the wizard who usurps Galder Weatherwax and turns out to be quite mad in The Light Fantastic, which this film also covers.

Oh, are you a big fan of wizards?