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A Wee Free Men movie?!

Not the book I'd have expected anyone to start with, but it did seem to get the most attention in the States and won some sort of award. Now if only Dreamworks would do something with Bromeliad. NO, I take that back! Not till I get there! You guys are still waiting for me, right?

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I agree with the idea of unknown actors playing the Feegles and pretty everyone in the movie so we can match them to the characters really well. I do kind of, though, see an Elijah Wood like actor playing Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock,
the young gonnagle wannabe who has a pretty good aim with throwing poetry. Except after LotR, I think Elijah Wood seems to be shying away from fantasy to avoid being typecast.

I am skeptical of most Discworld movies being translated well onto the big screen because so much of their brilliant humor is in the narraration and stuff that characters are thinking- plus, of course, the footnotes. I would be afraid it would come out as a flat comedy without those witty elements. Then again, I know there were Discworld animated made in England. I never saw them, so I don't know how good they were.

The "Young Readers" Discworld novels, though, seem easier to translate to the screen. I cannot put my finger on it exactly, but it seems like they might work better than other books. Having a girl hero appeals to the girls, but the Free Men would appeal to boys, and the humor and underlying messages of the story is such that people of all ages could find something in it to relate to.

Going Postal- That would be interesting as a movie, though even there I would not have faith in Hollywood. I myself picture Moist as looking a bit like a more European or Aussie version of Matthew McConaughey when he was in his late twenties (he has that kind of pleasant looking good old boy who seems like he is over his head and easy to take advantage of but really is manipulating you instead). I could not think of many actors, though in that age range who could pull it off. It would have to be an unknown who could toe the line between dry comedy and crime drama... oh, and who can ride nasty horses.